The year was 1941. Norway had fallen into darkness under the iron fist of Hitler’s brutal Wehrmacht. The conquering German ...

The turning point of WW2 in the ETO was the decisive battle in Normandy. Following Operation Overlord and the invasion of Normandy on the 6th June 1944, the Allies fought a bitter 77 day battle ...

As the war in Western Europe began reaching its inevitable conclusion, German efforts to expedite arms production led to some ...

The Channel Islands, which is marking Liberation Day on Friday and Saturday, were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two. From 1940-1945 Germans set up ...

Another was during the summer of 1944 when the Allies broke through the German front in Poland. By the end of 1944 though, Allied bombers were relentlessly carpet-bombing Germany, and the Nazis ...

Due to the very long supply routes, the German Sixth Army's offensive on Stalingrad was risky from the outset. Led by General Friedrich Paulus, the Wehrmacht attack began in mid-August 1942 ...

Nikolai Desyatnichenko (r) told German MPs that the fate of a Wehrmacht soldier "touched him" A Russian schoolboy has received online abuse and death threats after suggesting that many German ...

The Germans primarily painted spirals on the nosecones of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, two of the best German fighter planes of WW2. The spirals worked well to promote safety.

Desyatnichenko said he had learned about a German soldier named Georg Johann Rau, a Wehrmacht corporal who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad and later died in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp.