FILE - Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery signs the surrender pact, in a tent at Montgomery's 21st Army Group headquarters, at Luneburg Heath, May 4, 1945. The pact, signed by senior German ...

The Wehrmacht's Master Strategist, The Man Who Planned Hitler's Greatest Victory... and Was Fired For It His Allied ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Erwin Rommel, the World War Two German field marshal celebrated as the brilliant and humane "Desert Fox", is portrayed in a new film as a weak man torn by his loyalty to Adolf ...

The gravest crisis since German Army leaders persuaded Adolf Hitler to have the most radical of his Nazi followers killed in the Blood Purge of June 30, 1934 broke bloodlessly last week. This time it ...

The conduct of Field Marshal Fritz Krich von Mannstein, former German commander in Poland and the Ukraine, was “immaculate” in reference to treatment of civilians, R.T. Paget, British lawyer defending ...

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The tension was overwhelming in February of 1943. The American troops were finally going to face the relentless and mighty Wehrmacht, considered by many the most powerful military force on the planet.

Lacking enough troops to defend its huge territory, Nazi Germany opted for a mobile defense. Even an full-scale active defense has limitations and won't help Ukraine seize back its land. In 1943, as ...

LONDON — — April 16, 1945: The Soviet Red Army begins its final assault on Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany. — April 28: Former Italian fascist premier Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian ...