After the disasters at Stalingrad and Kursk, Germany faced catastrophic manpower losses and shrinking divisions across the ...

In a 1943 Soviet interrogation, a captured German intelligence officer offered an unusually candid assessment of the enemy he had just fought. He admitted that Red Army commanders had learned quickly, ...

The Soviet soldiers used their own bodies as shields, covering women and children escaping on ferry boats from a Nazi bombardment that killed 40,000 civilians in a single day. It was the height of the ...

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to ...

The 1942-43 battle in the Volga river city was one of the bloodiest in history with about two million dead from both sides. It was a disastrous loss for Nazi Germany, and is glorified by Russia as the ...