STUTTGART, Germany – For the first time in more than 20 years, at precisely 4 p.m. on July 4th, the Panzer Kaserne gates in Böblingen opened to the local German community. The local community poured ...
In a final, desperate bid to stop the Allied breakout in Normandy, Hitler’s best-equipped Panzer division—Panzer Lehr—was thrown into a meat grinder of hedge rows, bombers, and overwhelming firepower.
In the autumn of 1944, as Army Group North under Ferdinand Schörner found itself isolated on Latvia’s Courland Peninsula, the Germans scrambled three Panzer-divisions in a desperate bid to punch south ...