Last month, the German army published a document asserting that it bases itself on the tradition of the Wehrmacht, the army of the Nazi regime that massacred and starved tens of millions of civilians ...

In a recent interview with Tageszeitung (taz), right-wing military historian Sönke Neitzel openly rehabilitates Hitler’s Army, the Wehrmacht, and its criminal traditions. Under the headline “As a ...

The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had been lost, both in the Wehrmacht and even among some ideological diehard ...

At the beginning of 1944 six divisions of the German Army Group South, some 56,000 men, were encircled by the Russian Army.

On this date in 1945, German Gen. Alfred Jodl surrendered the Wehrmacht’s forces in Europe to Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, chief of staff for General Dwight D. Eisenhower. The ceremony took place in ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Before the Waffen-SS soldiers attacked the castle, Gangl had managed to phone members of the Austrian resistance in Wörgl, explaining the situation. The resistance ...

German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen is calling on the military to give new monikers to any barracks that still boast the names of Nazi-era figures. "The Bundeswehr has to send signals both ...

VIENNA (Reuters Life!) - When Richard Wadani returned home to Austria from Britain in 1946, he was not hailed as a hero who fought the Nazis but branded a coward. Wadani risked his life to desert the ...

To find out why, it’s helpful to look at the Bundeswehr’s founding document, the Himmerod memorandum of 1950. Five years after the end of World War II, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer secretly tasked 15 ...

Historically, the Volksgrendiers, literally People's Infantry, were a section of the Whermacht consisting of conscripts, usually those unsuitable for standard service. Receiving usually short and very ...