Here’s What You Need to Remember: Before the Waffen-SS soldiers attacked the castle, Gangl had managed to phone members of the Austrian resistance in Wörgl, explaining the situation. The resistance ...
The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had been lost, both in the Wehrmacht and even among some ideological diehard ...
Nazi propaganda cast the Waffen-SS as elite ideological warriors, while the Wehrmacht was framed as the nation’s traditional army. That divide shaped how they fought. The army favored proven, reliable ...
Um die „Ehrenhäftlinge“ zu retten, die auf Schloss Itter in Tirol inhaftiert waren, verbündeten sich im Mai 1945 Soldaten der Wehrmacht und der US Army. Als die Waffen-SS mit Übermacht angriff, kam es ...
52 Tage lang dauerte 1944/45 die Schlacht um das zur „Festung“ erklärte Budapest. Obwohl die Chance zum Ausbruch bestand, ...
In German Ground Forces of World War II, the authors provide a useful reference guide in English to the composition, operations, and commanders of the higher echelons of German ground forces – ...
The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen was one of the most notorious Waffen-SS formations operating in the ...