What forged Germany’s unstoppable army? Explore the harsh training, ruthless discipline, and total mobilization that shaped the Wehrmacht. From teenage soldiers to brutal battlefield tactics, witness ...

Bit by bit, the jigsaw of Russian intentions for Eastern Germany was fitting together. At first there had been only isolated clues—the wing of a prison converted into barracks at Dessau, an order for ...

Italian Forces and the T-34 During Operation Barbarossa, Italian troops fought alongside the German Wehrmacht and ...

Edward Sakasitz, a 21-year-old private in the German army, came to the Leningrad area in February 1942 to join Adolf Hitler’s troops laying siege to Russia’s old imperial capital. Today, the ...

Between 1939 and 1945 more than 17,000 Catholic German priests and seminarians were conscripted into Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Men who had devoted their lives to God found themselves advancing the cause of ...