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Perfect for those interested in World War II, German armored divisions, and the role of Waffen SS in Normandy 1944.
In early 1945, as the Third Reich crumbled and Soviet forces pushed relentlessly westward, Germany launched one of its last major offensives on the Eastern Front, Operation Konrad I. This dramatic ...
As head of the Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie was notorious for his cruelty. After World War II, he escaped to Bolivia, aided ...
Today, churches seem to produce many people who are supremely concerned not about love but about window blinds.
In 1943, German POWs by the thousands began arriving in the U.S. for internment after the defeat of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in North Africa. They kept coming as the war stretched on.
An inward person and a lyrical writer, Day had been one of The Sun’s war correspondents since 1943, when he was assigned to cover the war in Europe. In early 1945, he was assigned to Supreme ...
Throughout the Russo-Ukrainian war, each side has cast its enemy as heirs to the Nazis of World War II. In Ukraine, this has fueled comfortable myths about the nationalists of the 1940s, whose role in ...
He will explain the origins of a child’s World War I-era uniform, a German child’s Luftschutz (aid raid) helmet from World War II and much more.
On the night of March 26, 1945, near the end of World War II, a group of British special forces paratroopers, together with Italian partisans, as part of what was known as Operation Tombola, attacked ...
For the first time, the World War II Weekend, a living history event held for decades in St. Louis County, will be moved to Jefferson County this year. The event is set for Friday through Sunday, Sept ...
Hunter Wilford’s eyes were barely visible when he pulled a reproduction of a World War II U.S. Army airborne unit helmet down over his head. But there were plenty of other military artifacts ...
Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood had to make between 200 and 300 leather bomber jackets for AppleTV+’s World War II series “Masters of the Air.” Despite having more than 80 ...