In August 1944, after multiple devastating losses by the Wehrmacht, the Long Range Signal Intelligence Company (FAK 103) ...

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 story of the atrocities committed by the German army as it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 is now familiar: Jews and commissars were murdered out of hand, the millions of Red Army POWs were ...

Nakajima-hon-machi District in Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Aug. 6, 1945. 1st September 1945. Immediately after the blast people tried to escape from the heat by ...

One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s armed forces (the Wehrmacht) during World War II occurred 80 years ago, in March 1944: the deliberate mass murder of thousands of women, old people ...

A group of German prisoners of war were shot dead near Meymac, southwestern France, in 1944. A search for their bodies was launched after a 98-year-old ex-resistance ...

On April 18, 1945, with American troops outside the defenceless German town of Ansbach, a 19-year-old theology student tried to force the town’s surrender by severing the phone lines between the ...