Most Marines had never seen combat when Peter Ortiz joined the Corps in June 1942. However, he had already survived five years in the French Foreign Legion and fought in Africa, faced the Nazis in ...
REIMS, France (AP) — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust to an end 80 years ago this week, AP reporters and photographers were there, chronicling the Nazis’ historic ...
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 ...
“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and ...
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Stalingrad's Final Stand: Why German Soldiers Refused to Surrender
In the aftermath of Stalingrad, captured German officers revealed the brutal truth to Soviet interrogators. They admitted ...
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The Stalingrad Tapes: Secret Interrogations of German POWs
After the German surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet intelligence began secret interrogations of the captured soldiers. The transcripts reveal their raw, unfiltered thoughts on the battle's collapse, ...
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