At the beginning of 1944 six divisions of the German Army Group South, some 56,000 men, were encircled by the Russian Army. They were stuck in a pocket of around 48 kilometers wide and 20 kilometers ...

In the summer of 1944, Operation Bagration tore through German Army Group Centre with devastating force. As entire formations ...

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 ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...