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 ...

The recapture of Kharkov in March 1943 made Field Marshal Manstein a national hero and temporarily stabilized the German ...

US Army infantrymen pass a shattered German tank during a counterattack at Kasserine Pass, February 1943.Corbis via Getty Images In February 1943, US troops were soundly defeated in a days-long battle ...

The gravest crisis since German Army leaders persuaded Adolf Hitler to have the most radical of his Nazi followers killed in the Blood Purge of June 30, 1934 broke bloodlessly last week. This time it ...

Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Erwin Rommel, the World War Two German field marshal celebrated as the brilliant and humane "Desert Fox", is portrayed in a new film as a weak man torn by his loyalty to Adolf ...

The Wehrmacht's Master Strategist, The Man Who Planned Hitler's Greatest Victory... and Was Fired For It His Allied ...

“It is one of the most shameful and despicable affairs,” said Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, “for an officer to be taken without fighting back or offering resistance.” But, he explained ...

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LONDON — — April 16, 1945: The Soviet Red Army begins its final assault on Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany. — April 28: Former Italian fascist premier Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian ...