The Panzer tank family was at the heart of German operations throughout World War 2. The term “Panzer” refers to a series of ...

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 ...

We revisit three of the most disastrous raids of World War II - the failed German paratrooper assault on The Hague in 1940, ...

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 great German Field Marshal Helmut von Moltke the Elder famously observed no plan survives contact with the enemy. Von Moltke’s point was that humans get a vote. What works for soldiers in one ...

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 ...

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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 ...