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

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

This photograph of resistance fighters in Crete posing with German rifles and hand-grenades has been making the rounds of ...

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 ...

Abstract: We can conclude that the Elefant radars were experimental, conceived in several respects in imitation of CH, and intended for several purposes - but inspired by the same thinking that led to ...

It was a major hit, making Bob Hope a household name. >> The German Wehrmacht rolled over the Polish border. >> Bob Hope's World War II storyline began on his way back to the United States ...

In the four preceding years, the German Wehrmacht, with the assistance of collaborationist forces such as the Ukrainian fascists of the Ukrainian Nationalist Organization (ONU), had murdered 27 ...

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 ...

West Australians have gathered to pay tribute to the state's last World War II prisoner of war, Arthur Leggett, who died last month aged 106.

The National Park Service identified the victim who died at the Arches National Park as Rudolf Peters Beth Harpaz/AP The National Park Service said in a news release that authorities responded to ...

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 ...

After five years under the Nazi jackboot, the Channel Islands were finally liberated on May 9, 1945. But Hitler's 'model occupation' was hardly bloodless ...