In the summer of 1941, the Soviet war machine disintegrated. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, German panzers sliced through ...

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 ...

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

Operation Barbarossa was the largest military invasion in history, launched by Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union in 1941.

Key point: Berlin made many bad assumptions and therefore had the wrong strategy. Hubris and bad planning would doom the Germans as they tried to seize the vast territories of Russia. Even by the ...

Even by the standards of World War II, the Eastern Front stands out as a cauldron of horror. Over four years of war, millions of soldiers and civilians died as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ...

The great summer Battle of Russia is ending in one of Germany’s worst defeats. Since the Red offensive began in the Kursk-Belgorod sector on July 12, the Russians have rolled forward 50 to 200 mi.

At the start of the war, almost one and a half million ethnic Germans lived in the USSR. By and large, they were descendants of colonists who, in the second half of the 18th century, were granted ...

The FSB published the testimony by former commandant of the Mogilev fortified area Major General Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff who had surrendered to Soviet troops MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. Russia’s ...

A small, but nonetheless very significant exhibition—75 years after the invasion of the Soviet Union and the massacre of thousands of Jews at Babi Yar in Ukraine—is currently on display at the Berlin ...

Established in 1990, the Journal of the History of Sexuality (JHS) illuminates the history of sexuality in all its expressions, recognizing various differences of class, culture, gender, race, and ...