Allied bombers destroyed huge parts of Dresden, killing thousands. Those exploiting the attacks for political ends often give ...

More than 25,000 people died during the Allied firebombing of the city of Dresden, Germany, from February 13 to 15, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).

But during the summer of 1945, that is what happened to 14 German prisoners of war held in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth. Their crime: killing three of their fellow German ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 1945 (UP) - The Big Three have agreed on plans for enforcing unconditional surrender terms on Germany, the calling of a United Nations' conference on world security ...

ISBN: 978-0-4512-3008-9 . The Allied bomber offensive against Nazi Germany remains one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War. It certainly was one of the most costly. By May of ...

Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945 (London, 2008). Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (London, 2007). Peter Fritzsche, An Iron Wind: ...