Stories of Shoah survivors freed near Landsberg am Lech and later housed in Displaced Persons camps. A look at the stories of Shoah survivors liberated near Landsberg am Lech, in southern Germany, and ...

Explore the dramatic post-war story of Kurt "Panzer" Meyer, the youngest divisional commander in WWII, who led the fanatical 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" during the defense of Normandy. This ...

The Edelweiß Pirates were youth gangs that opposed the ever-increasing totalitarian grip of the Nazi regime. Their actions ...

Archive 1945 is a project republishing The Economist’s original reporting on the final year of the second world war. Eighty years on, follow the course of the conflict week by week, in new instalments ...