A German officer captured after the fall of Stalingrad gave a candid account during Soviet interrogation of what was ...
Hitler’s U-boats were a feared component of his naval strategy during the Second World War. But what was life aboard these ...
52 Tage lang dauerte 1944/45 die Schlacht um das zur „Festung“ erklärte Budapest. Obwohl die Chance zum Ausbruch bestand, ...
With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to ...
In August 1942, a handful of Soviet defenders held the 35-meter grain elevator at Stalingrad against waves of German infantry, tanks, and artillery, buying crucial time for the city’s defense.
Shares in the German lender were last seen down about 2.7% following news of the probe, which was first reported by Spiegel. In this article German police searched Deutsche Bank offices in Frankfurt ...
Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...
Im Herbst 1944 liegt ein unangenehmer Geruch in der Luft rund um das oberschlesische Dorf Boyszowy. Jeder in der Gegend hier weiß, woher er kommt, denn die Hölle auf Erden liegt gleich um die Ecke: ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a dimly lit room in the Museum of Gdańsk, visitors are confronted with two-dozen portraits that are lined up ...
Laut dem Militärhistoriker Rolf-Dieter Müller sind die Risiken der alliierten Invasion am 6. Juni 1944 in der Tat beträchtlich. Ihr Scheitern, "hätte den Verlauf des Zweiten Weltkriegs zweifellos ...
On 22 June 1941, the German Wehrmacht launched a war of aggression against the Soviet Union. Under the code name ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the campaign aimed to bring the vast country in the east to its ...
Herr Ohler, die Wehrmacht orderte 1940 rund 35 Millionen Tabletten des Methamphetamins "Pervitin" in Vorbereitung auf den Westfeldzug gegen Frankreich. Sind deutsche Soldaten enthemmt und aufgeputscht ...