At the beginning of 1944 six divisions of the German Army Group South, some 56,000 men, were encircled by the Russian Army. They were stuck in a pocket of around 48 kilometers wide and 20 kilometers ...

In the winter of 1944, as German forces pushed back across Belgium, the 48th Fighter Group, known as the Grim Reapers, played a critical role supporting the Allied Ninth Army. Flying the rugged P-47 ...

One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s armed forces (the Wehrmacht) during World War II occurred 80 years ago, in March 1944: the deliberate mass murder of thousands of women, old people ...