Post-war Germany has been seen as a model of 'transitional justice' in action, where the prosecution of Nazis, most prominently in the Nuremberg Trials, helped promote a transition to democracy.
After the Allied landings on Normandy and their subsequent trek into the German heartland, the retreating Wehrmacht blew up ...
On this day in history, July 17, 1945, the Potsdam Conference begins, final Allied summit after WWII
The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...
Elements of George Patton's Third Army confronted the human horror inflicted by Hitler's National Socialist Workers Party when American GIs entered the Buchenwald concentration camp on this day in ...
THE ROAD from the Third Reich to modern Germany began in a field of rubble. The second world war had left behind enough of it to form a mountain 4,000 metres high, if it were piled up on the Nazi ...
On May 8, 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced on radio that Nazi Germany’s forces had surrendered. "This is a solemn but glorious hour," said Truman. "General Eisenhower informs me that the ...
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The US Army & German Wehrmacht VS Waffen SS - Battle for Castle Itter 1945
On 5 May 1945, a few days after Hitler’s suicide, American soldiers under command of US Army Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr.
In January of 1945, when the Queen Mary arrived in Scotland, Robert Coyne and the other soldiers were loaded on trains bound for Southampton, England. The trip took longer than expected as the train ...
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