FILE - Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery signs the surrender pact, in a tent at Montgomery's 21st Army Group headquarters, at Luneburg Heath, May 4, 1945. The pact, signed by senior German ...

Devised in utter secrecy as early as 1934, the German engineers disguised their Nebelwerfer Multiple Rocket Launcher as a ...

Panzer Division and the ad-hoc battle groups assembled by new commander Field Marshal Model—the retreat of Army Group ...

The great German Field Marshal Helmut von Moltke the Elder famously observed no plan survives contact with the enemy. Von Moltke’s point was that humans get a vote. What works for soldiers in one ...

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Erwin Rommel, the World War Two German field marshal celebrated as the brilliant and humane "Desert Fox", is portrayed in a new film as a weak man torn by his loyalty to Adolf ...

The gravest crisis since German Army leaders persuaded Adolf Hitler to have the most radical of his Nazi followers killed in the Blood Purge of June 30, 1934 broke bloodlessly last week. This time it ...

LONDON — — April 16, 1945: The Soviet Red Army begins its final assault on Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany. — April 28: Former Italian fascist premier Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian ...