When Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, they expected a rapid victory—but instead encountered the Soviet ...

On 22 June 1941, the German Wehrmacht launched a war of aggression against the Soviet Union. Under the code name ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the campaign aimed to bring the vast country in the east to its ...

In early September 1941, the German Wehrmacht was advancing on all fronts in the Soviet Union. Kyiv had fallen, the Smolensk stronghold had been defeated and Leningrad was under siege. Under the code ...

Introduction -- Politics 1940-1941. Europe in July 1940 ; Hitler's ideology and strategy ; The monstrous scheme : a Greater Germanic empire ; Stalin's ideology and strategy -- The eve of war. The ...

From its humble origins as disparate barbarian tribes, picking away at the crumbling Roman empire, Germany rose to be one of the most enduring global powers from the middle ages onward. A mainstay of ...

On June 22 80 years ago, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union in a war that stretched along an 1800-mile front. Less than four years later, the Red Army captured a ruined ...

The latest First Look for Civilization VI is for Germany, most likely timed to coincide with Gamescom, which is currently being held in Cologne, Germany. While Bismarck has been the series’ staple ...

German forces swept across the USSR's western borders in June 1941 Russia and other parts of the former USSR commemorate one of the darkest days of their history on Wednesday, the 70th anniversary of ...

The remarkable 'lost' diaries of a German tank commander who went from being a hardened Nazi to a broken soldier in just a few weeks of fighting in the Second World War war have been unearthed.