At the beginning of 1944 six divisions of the German Army Group South, some 56,000 men, were encircled by the Russian Army.

In July 1944 it became evident it was only a matter of time until Nazi Germany would be defeated. The Allied forces had ...

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

In order to march on Antwerp, the German Wehrmacht needed to first capture Freyneux—and the US Army stopped it in its tracks. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest and bloodiest engagement the ...