At Hatten, on January 10, 1945, the 242nd Infantry Regiment ... volunteered to hold off the Germans while other soldiers retreated. Bertoldo drove back repeated German attacks for 48 hours.

Horst Gunther was German soldier in a POW camp in South Carolina ... That fear ended when Germany surrendered in May 1945. The executions at Fort Leavenworth were carried out in three groups ...

On January 27, 1945, these Soviet soldiers witnessed ... liberation at the end of January, the Soviet soldiers encountered fierce resistance from German troops. Intense fighting took place on ...

Professor Sönke Neitzel used secret transcripts of German prisoners of war to create a unique portrait of the mindset of soldiers during WWII. For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a ...