Why did Germany ignore hundreds of captured T-34 super-tanks? Explore the friendly fire risks, diesel fuel woes, and "blind" ...

Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the legend of the innocent Wehrmacht is no more, says historian Hannes Heer. For decades, some Germans considered the SS to be the only war criminals.

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst is showing a small but significant open-air exhibition, “Dimensions ...

Last month, the German army published a document asserting that it bases itself on the tradition of the Wehrmacht, the army of the Nazi regime that massacred and starved tens of millions of civilians ...

The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had been lost, both in the Wehrmacht and even among some ideological diehard ...

On this date in 1945, German Gen. Alfred Jodl surrendered the Wehrmacht’s forces in Europe to Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, chief of staff for General Dwight D. Eisenhower. The ceremony took place in ...

The speed, flexibility and initiative of the German Wehrmacht took the Allies completely by surprise during the blitzkrieg at the start of World War Two. Why was it that Britain and France were ...

General Walther Kurt von Seydlitz-Kurzbach was considered a perfect tactician in the German Wehrmacht. His decisive actions broke the Soviet blockade of the 2 nd Army Corps in the Demyansk Pocket in ...

The image of Germans in the Netherlands is showing a glimmer of hope after the atrocities of the Nazis: In the tiny village of Goirle, a civil initiative has decided to erect a memorial to the German ...

"THE OWI AIMS AT FRITZ" LONDON - The German Army, target of the "German Wehrmacht Hour" beamed out by ABSIE (American Broadcasting Station in Europe) is getting its first taste of OWI-supplied live ...