Faction: The German Army WWII In 1935, Hitler, Fuhrer of Nazi Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding the German army’s strength by bringing in military conscription and rearmament.

"The mainstream approach is that the Wehrmacht was a willing instrument of the Nazi perpetrators as an institution," says Michael Wolffson, an Israeli-German historian at the University of the ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier ... occupation was one of the bloodiest in Europe. World War II historian Hagen ...

Before the end of World War Two, Rommel's Nazi unit is said to have amassed more than 20 million pounds worth of gold.

Between 1939 and 1945 more than 17,000 Catholic German priests and seminarians were conscripted into Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Men who had devoted their lives to God found themselves advancing the cause of ...

Did the Holocaust Undermine the German War Effort? One of the great paradoxes of the ... death camps had been used to carry supplies and reinforcements to the Front, the Wehrmacht might have performed ...

Instead of a breakthrough that changed the tide of World War II, the German offensive eventually bogged down because of poor terrain, lack of fuel and fierce American resistance. While seizing ...

this is an essential book for any student of World War II. A major addition to the literature from a master scholar.' Robert M. Citino - author of Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 ...

A 100 euros typewriter has sold for 45,000 euros (£40,000; $51,500) at auction, after it was discovered it was actually a German Wehrmacht Enigma I. The World War Two cipher machine was bought at ...