Trace the combat career of Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp, the decorated Panzer regimental commander of the 5th SS Panzer ...

Branded as Hitler’s teenage division, the 12th SS Panzer shocked Allied troops with their brutal effectiveness in Normandy.

Seventy years ago, on July 12, Soviet soldiers managed to wreak havoc on the German forces’ morale in the Battle of the Prokhorovka, a very important moment of the battle of the Kursk and the largest ...

Gert Hartwig Pries 1944. On his uniform he wears the EK 11 Class ribbon and Wound Badge in black and the Panzerkampf Abzeichen. SS-Sturmann Gert Hartwig Pries "My training lasted from 9th January 1943 ...

Robert Hébras, who by being shielded under dead bodies survived the infamous massacre of June 1944 in which members of an SS Panzer division killed almost everyone in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane ...

The Battle of Aachen took place between Oct. 2 and Oct. 21, 1944, and was considered a major battle and the first city on German soil to be captured by the Allies. In this battle the Americans, ...

Three days after the D-Day invasion in June of 1944, the British Army occupied a Normandy mansion called Château d'Audrieu and found a row of 13 Canadian soldiers lying dead along a fence. Beatrice ...

British writer Salman Rushdie has defended German author Guenter Grass in the light of revelations the Nobel Prize-winning writer was a member of Hitler's Waffen-SS.