On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler and senior Nazi military officers met at the Wolf’s Lair in Rastenburg, Eastern Prussia. As the Nazi military leaders took their seats to discuss troop movements on the ...

Anyone else would have quit earlier. Their factories in ruin, their army routed, their air force eliminated, their people struggling and starving, the Nazis fought on, long after victory was all but ...

By the spring of 1944, the Eastern Front was no longer about territory—it was about oil. As Marshal Ivan Konev’s armies ...

LENINT’S world revolution, for which Russia was only an accidental starting point, has resolved itself under Stalin into a Russian revolution, reforming Russia from the depth of her historical roots ...

According to a Stockholm report, the Fuehrer has decreed there shall be no exemption from military service for. any of the clergy, seminarians or religious. One sole exception is made. Jesuits, states ...

In Britain, 1944 is remembered primarily as "the year of D-Day, when thousands of British, Canadian and American soldiers waded ashore on the Normandy beaches" , said Dominic Sandbrook in The Sunday ...

Three years to the day after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the Red Army struck back. In the days leading up to June 22, 1944, partisan attacks severed German communications across Belarus, ...