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

On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: After the German armies paused for breath in early November, the weather turned colder, freezing the mud and giving Hitler’s troops the solid footing they needed to ...

This is the second and concluding part of a two-part article on the debate in Germany surrounding an exhibit on the crimes of Hitler’s army (the Wehrmacht). Part one was posted Wednesday, September 19 ...

The core differences between the East German “National People’s Army” (NVA) and the Nazi German Wehrmacht that came before it were doctrinal in nature. Despite having a handful of outward similarities ...

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 ...

It was the second week of October when the bombshell came in Spain: Germany is still today paying pensions to the Spanish fascists who fought alongside the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad! As a result of this ...

Headshots of young Poles who had to serve in the Wehrmacht are displayed at the 'Our Boys' exhibition in GdanskJacek Lepiarz/DW Anyone entering the first room of the exhibition "Our Boys" in the Main ...

It was the second week of October when the bombshell came in Spain: Germany is still today paying pensions to the Spanish fascists who fought alongside the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad! As a result of this ...

VIENNA (Reuters Life!) - When Richard Wadani returned home to Austria from Britain in 1946, he was not hailed as a hero who fought the Nazis but branded a coward. Wadani risked his life to desert the ...