In the summer of 1941, the German Wehrmacht was the most feared fighting force in the world, confident its panzers were unbeatable. That confidence evaporated the first time a Soviet T-34 rolled onto ...

The story of the atrocities committed by the German army as it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 is now familiar: Jews and commissars were murdered out of hand, the millions of Red Army POWs were ...

“What do photographs tell? Albert Dieckmann’s Pictures from Occupied Eastern Europe 1941-42” is the title of a small but thoughtful exhibition at Berlin’s Karlshorst Museum, the site of the surrender ...

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst is showing a small but significant open-air exhibition, “Dimensions ...

In the autumn of 1941, German soldiers could see the spires of the Kremlin. But they would march no further. This is the ...

The Soviet counteroffensive near Moscow in December 1941 came as a complete surprise for the Wehrmacht. The Germans were sure that the Red Army had been almost finished. The initial period of ...

Operation Barbarossa was the codename for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II. Adolf Hitler's offensive in the east signalled the beginning of what would be the most devastating ...

The Red Army understood that it was capable of beating the Wehrmacht way back in November of 1941, when they managed to free Rostov-on-Don from Nazi Germany’s forces. As we know, the result of the Red ...

Raus was one of the Wehrmacht's most accomplished generals, and his memoirs are a welcome addition to the literature on World War II. Raus entered Russia in June 1941 as a brigade commander in Germany ...