On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied ...

Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the legend of the innocent Wehrmacht is no more, says historian Hannes Heer. For decades, some Germans considered the SS to be the only war criminals.

The war ended in 1945, but for millions of German soldiers, the struggle didn’t stop there. In this video, we examine what ...

See, for example, H-3018, 5 Jun 1943, in Dokumente zur Deutschlandpolitik, 27 vols. to date (Frankfurt am Main: Alfred Metzner Verlag, 1961–), series 1, vol. 4, p ...

On May 8, 1945, the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht took effect, yet, peace did not come about right away across the country. To many Germans, it was not a day of liberation. "The war ...

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Although his only works that have appeared in English are on the Eastern Front, such as The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers and Enemy in the East: Hitler's Secret ...

When Germany lost World War II in 1945, the age of the JagdPanzer seemed to end. But just twelve years later, the newly ...

Between 1939 and 1945 more than 17,000 Catholic German priests and seminarians were conscripted into Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Men who had devoted their lives to God found themselves advancing the cause of ...

In German Ground Forces of World War II, the authors provide a useful reference guide in English to the composition, operations, and commanders of the higher echelons of German ground forces – ...