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Here’s What You Need to Know: The success of mechanized units against Poland later informed the Wehrmacht’s maneuver-oriented strategy in the Battle of France. When over 1.5 million German soldiers ...

Litigation by three Holocaust survivors has swayed Germany's northern city of Lüneberg to add wording to a controversial war memorial. It spells out the former Wehrmacht division was involved in ...

Key Point: most historians agreed the Blitzkrieg’s disruptive effects were not planned for, but instead arose as natural consequences of the Wehrmacht’s disposition and force structure. When over 1.5 ...

The core differences between the East German “National People’s Army” (NVA) and the Nazi German Wehrmacht that came before it were doctrinal in nature. Despite having a handful of outward similarities ...

The Forgotten Battle (Netflix), a Dutch Second World War drama from director Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. (he directed that prequel to The Thing a few years back), looks at the 1944 Battle of the ...

Gaunt, pale and emaciated, the commander of the Wehrmacht’s 6th Army looked like a hunted animal to the Soviet military commanders. On the night of January 31, 1943, units of the 64th Army’s 38th ...

This is a fairly brief guide which details the use of Axis, especially Whermacht artillery. OK, the axis artillery is, in my opinion, not quite as powerful as allied artillery, which is realistic. It ...