Even after the German armies capitulated in World War II, a fanatic Wehrmacht general, commanding a force of last-ditch Nazis, held out against the Russians in a Bohemian mountain redoubt.
in general infantry. Their convictions about their duty only strengthened as Germany waged an increasingly desperate battle against the Soviet Union, which they believed was an existential threat to ...
The top World War II Allied commanders, such as Montgomery or Zhukov ... after directing Moscow’s defense in 1941 against the ...
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) published for the first time a Wehrmacht general’s ... The FSB uploaded the German general’s testimony on its website timed for the 80th anniversary ...
Did the Holocaust Undermine the German War Effort? One of the great paradoxes of the ... death camps had been used to carry supplies and reinforcements to the Front, the Wehrmacht might have performed ...