Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the legend of the innocent Wehrmacht is no more, says historian Hannes Heer. For decades, some Germans considered the SS to be the only war criminals.

In January 1945, the Red Army launched one of the fastest and most devastating offensives in military history. The ...

After Kursk, the Wehrmacht’s dream of victory died quietly. Tank wrecks stretched for miles, and exhausted generals admitted ...

Up to 450,000 Poles served in the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, during World War II. For years, they were viewed in Poland as traitors. But as an exhibition in Gdansk shows, the truth ...

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 ...

The image of Germans in the Netherlands is showing a glimmer of hope after the atrocities of the Nazis: In the tiny village of Goirle, a civil initiative has decided to erect a memorial to the German ...

According to Nazi doctrine, they should have ended their lives in a concentration camp. But instead they managed to occupy high positions in the armed forces of the Third Reich. Not all Jews were sent ...