In May 1941, Nazi Germany launched its first major airborne invasion, targeting the strategic island of Crete. As thousands ...

In June 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, deploying the largest invasion force in history against the Soviet Union. The German Army Groups North, Center, and South rapidly breached ...

Viewed from the perspective of 1939, Germany’s defeat in World War II was not surprising. From the outset, it was plain to planners on all sides that Germany lacked the global reach and economic ...

In this successful history, journalist Nagorski isolates 1941 as a turning point in world history, persuasively arguing it was the year Adolf Hitler’s political and military decisions ensured the ...

Multiple explosions were reported over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early Friday morning. Ukraine's foreign minister compared the attack to Nazi Germany's assault on the city in 1941. The attack came ...

Plot to murder Hitler -- "Unconditional surrender" -- "Fifty thousand Germans must be shot!" -- "On the back of an envelope" -- Terrible silence -- "One hundred ...

Germany and Italy formally joined Japan in war against the United States today and Adolf Hitler shouted that the Axis would "always strike the first blow." Hitler and Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini ...

Martin Lowenberg became a Jewish man, a bar mitzvah, 10 months before the Jews of Fulda were deported from Germany to Latvia, most of them to their deaths. The reading at his ceremony, from the ...