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The Panther's Desperate Charge: The SS Relief of Kovel

In the spring of 1944, the Soviet noose was tightening around the strategic city of Kovel, trapping its German garrison. The ...
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When Americans, Germans and POWs fought the SS from the walls of a castle

80 years ago, on May 5, 1945, the strangest fight in World War II took place. American soldiers and Wehrmacht troops teamed up to fight the SS. By Nicholas Slayton Published May 5, 2025 12:31 PM EDT ...
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Trap of the Tanks at Prokhorovka: How Kursk Destroyed Germany’s Eastern Gamble

As thunderous columns of Tigers and T-34s collided at Battle of Prokhorovka, Germany’s elite SS Panzer divisions met the full ...

History Today: How fall of the Berlin Wall shaped modern Germany

The Berlin Wall, which divided the city into East and West, was opened for the first time since it was erected on 1989. This marked the beginning of the end for communist regimes in Eastern Europe and ...