On the second day of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union collided head-on with a harsh ...

In December 1940, Adolf Hitler and his generals began finalizing plans for a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, convinced ...

In its latest foray into the realm of historical falsification, the New York Times on Tuesday published a news analysis pinning the blame for World War II on the Soviet Union. The lengthy article ...

The executioner in the photo is now believed to be Jakobus Onnen — a former teacher of French, English, and gymnastics, born ...

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The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable. The Battle of ...

Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II. Her archival research demonstrates that the Soviets saw the German prisoners of ...

Columbia University has been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. Rudi Von Briel/Photodisc via Getty Images Trump ramped up the pressure by threatening university research funding and ...