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

In a recent interview with Tageszeitung (taz), right-wing military historian Sönke Neitzel openly rehabilitates Hitler’s Army, the Wehrmacht, and its criminal traditions. Under the headline “As a ...

At the beginning of 1944 six divisions of the German Army Group South, some 56,000 men, were encircled by the Russian Army.

On June 22, 1944, exactly three years after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, 2.4 million Red Army soldiers launched ...

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 ...

We’ll be in Berlin by summer,” wrote Sergeant Ivan Morozov to his wife in February 1943. He would be home[...] ...

Ranks and uniforms of the German army, navy and air force, by Denys Erlam, collected from German semi-official sources and largely based upon Uniformen der deutschen Wehrmacht, by Eberhard Hettler ...