Near the village of Douvres, he twice crawled across a minefield to gain intelligence on a German radar station, leading to its capture and the surrender of 150 enemy soldiers. In March 1945 ...

On March 7, 1945, American forces crossed into Germany, making their first breakthrough into the heartland. Discover the dramatic story behind this historic event that changed the course of the war.

German Annexations and Invasions Increase Control ... and its aggressive expansion provided an ever-growing supply. By 1945, when Allied troops opened the camps, the types of prisoners they ...

Lord was 28 and served as a gunner aboard an A-26B “Invader” on a bombing mission to Dülmen, Germany, in March 1945 when it was hit by heavy anti-aircraft fire and crashed, according to the ...

The German people had suffered terribly during both the First World War and the Depression and a huge part of the Nazis’ appeal was that they promised to make Germany’s economy strong again.

Itka Zygmuntowicz (1926–2020), Survivor of Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp (1940–1945) RG-50.030*0435, Oral history interview with Itka Zygmuntowicz, (1926-2020).

BERLIN (Reuters) - A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor said on Thursday he would return his federal order of merit award to the ...

Nawyn, “‘Striking at the Roots of German Militarism’: Efforts to Demilitarize German Society and Culture in American-Occupied Württemberg-Baden, 1945–1949” (Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina ...