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During this battle American forces teamed up with the Wehrmacht and fought off the SS forces. More for You. Sensitive documents, including White House floor plans, improperly shared with thousands.

American soldiers and Wehrmacht troops teamed up to fight the SS. By Nicholas Slayton. Published May 5, 2025 12:31 PM EDT. Soldiers and tanks advance towards Castle Itter in Austria in May 1945.

Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the legend of the innocent Wehrmacht is no more, says historian Hannes Heer. For decades, some Germans considered the SS to be the only war criminals.

In 1944, 17-year-old Riga resident Viktor Lorencs was mobilized into the Latvian SS Volunteer Legion. Despite the name, recruitment was often on a compulsory basis.

Former Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS officers created the new army in 1949. Here, Wehrmacht soldiers are shown in Russia in 1941.

His division was destroyed trying to hold up the Allied advance, but he managed to remain unharmed until March 1945, by which time the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS units had retreated well into German ...

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An SS commander took the baby and smashed the baby against the truck until her screaming stopped. My heart stopped,” said Groening. “I went to the man and said, ‘You cannot do this.’ ...

Itter Castle in the Austrian Alps was the scene of a surprising German-US joint attack on the SS in May 1945, Bethany Bell reports.