Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

Discover how Allied forces and brilliant women analysts uncovered and delayed Hitler’s V2 rocket program, saving countless ...

As Soviet divisions closed in on Kharkov, German forces faced collapse. SS General Hausser made a fateful decision to withdraw, defying direct orders from Hitler. What followed was a harrowing ...

As Operation Barbarossa stormed east, Hitler expected full Finnish support to crush Leningrad. But Marshal Mannerheim had ...

Adolf Hitler saw Leningrad not just as a military target, but as a symbol of communism that had to be destroyed. This episode ...

As the war collapsed around them, Germany looked to suicide missions. The result: a cockpit-welded V-1 bomb piloted by ...

While German forces approached from the south, Finland closed in from the north—completing the noose around Leningrad. Driven ...

In the icy forests of Belgium, Hitler’s elite SS Leibstandarte faced off against Patton’s Third Army in one of WWII’s most ...

At the hour of Germany’s surrender in 1945, they performed a program by Felix Mendelssohn — whose music was banned under the ...

On May 10th, 1940, Hitler unleashed his elite SS troops into the Netherlands with orders to break through without mercy. As Kurt Meyer’s stormtroopers charged into De Popper, the Dutch defenders were ...

The first naval battle of World War II unfolded not in European waters, but in the South Atlantic off the coasts of Argentina ...