War has often been likened to a grand chess match, with generals maneuvering armies across the battlefield as if they were ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Erwin Rommel, the World War Two German field marshal celebrated as the brilliant and humane "Desert Fox", is portrayed in a new film as a weak man torn by his loyalty to Adolf ...

The Panzer tank family was at the heart of German operations throughout World War 2. The term “Panzer” refers to a series of ...

The happiest man in the world when Tobruk fell was Germany’s clubfooted Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels. For six months he had had the painful job of constructing alibis for 80,000,000 ...

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