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 ...

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 ...

Guernsey - the island was occupied from 30 June 1940 until 9 May 1945 In 1939 the German army, the Wehrmacht, invaded the Low Countries before advancing through France. As the remains of the ...

One of the most interesting German technologies adopted by ... the U.S. and Soviet Union inherited from the Wehrmacht is guided missiles. During WW2, the Germans developed a fairly rudimentary ...

During these dying days of WW2, a small medieval castle in the Austrian Alps became ... The Battle for Castle Itter is the only recorded case of the entire war when soldiers from the German Wehrmacht ...

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

Last but not least, the word Hummel is German for, you guessed it, "bumblebee" which is the nickname this vehicle was bestowed with. However, by all accounts, Hitler hated that name because he ...

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