The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had ...

Seventy Five years ago this week the strangest battle of World War II was fought in the Austrian Alps. The engagement, the Battle for Castle Itter, was so unbelievable that it could easily be a film.

The Red Army surrounded the city and on May 2, the Berlin garrison surrendered. On May 8, the unconditional surrender of the ...

80 years ago, on May 5, 1945, the strangest fight in World War II took place. American soldiers and Wehrmacht troops teamed up to fight the SS. By Nicholas Slayton Published May 5, 2025 12:31 PM EDT ...

Hidden deep in the forest, a long-abandoned German base offers new insight into daily life during the final phase of the war.

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 ...

The crowd watches the battle at the Rockford World War II Days event at Midway Village Museum on Sept. 24, 2022. Ted O’Sullivan portrays a German WWII officer at the Rockford World War II Days event ...

Key Point: Field Marshal Erich von Manstein was possibly the greatest strategist and field commander in the German Wehrmacht. In January 1943, the once-invincible German Wehrmacht was reeling, being ...

Key point: More than armies count in war. In May 1940, the German Wehrmacht launched a lightning attack into France and within weeks destroyed the combined French and British armies. The rapid defeat ...

A photograph purportedly showing women in the League of German Girls, the female wing of the Nazi Party youth movement, during a uniform inspection in World War II is frequently circulated on social ...