Seventy Five years ago this week the strangest battle of World War II was fought in the Austrian Alps. The engagement, the Battle for Castle Itter, was so unbelievable that it could easily be a film.
On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the ...
80 years ago, on May 5, 1945, the strangest fight in World War II took place. American soldiers and Wehrmacht troops teamed up to fight the SS. By Nicholas Slayton Published May 5, 2025 12:31 PM EDT ...
Back on the Eastern Front with Iron Mike, the search quickly turns into a full-on surface hunt as porcelain, bottles, and untouched wartime debris appear everywhere. A WWII gas mask confirms the ...
Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...
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 ...
Key Point: Field Marshal Erich von Manstein was possibly the greatest strategist and field commander in the German Wehrmacht. In January 1943, the once-invincible German Wehrmacht was reeling, being ...
The crowd watches the battle at the Rockford World War II Days event at Midway Village Museum on Sept. 24, 2022. Ted O’Sullivan portrays a German WWII officer at the Rockford World War II Days event ...
A photograph purportedly showing women in the League of German Girls, the female wing of the Nazi Party youth movement, during a uniform inspection in World War II is frequently circulated on social ...
Key point: More than armies count in war. In May 1940, the German Wehrmacht launched a lightning attack into France and within weeks destroyed the combined French and British armies. The rapid defeat ...
If you’re looking for a versatile vehicle to haul your cannon to the shooting range that is also a motorcycle, look no further than this crazy-cool 1944 German Kettenkrad following to get auctioned ...