Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

As Soviet divisions closed in on Kharkov, German forces faced collapse. SS General Hausser made a fateful decision to withdraw, defying direct orders from Hitler. What followed was a harrowing ...

Discover how Allied forces and brilliant women analysts uncovered and delayed Hitler’s V2 rocket program, saving countless ...

As Operation Barbarossa stormed east, Hitler expected full Finnish support to crush Leningrad. But Marshal Mannerheim had ...

Adolf Hitler saw Leningrad not just as a military target, but as a symbol of communism that had to be destroyed. This episode ...

In the icy forests of Belgium, Hitler’s elite SS Leibstandarte faced off against Patton’s Third Army in one of WWII’s most ...

As the war collapsed around them, Germany looked to suicide missions. The result: a cockpit-welded V-1 bomb piloted by ...

On May 10th, 1940, Hitler unleashed his elite SS troops into the Netherlands with orders to break through without mercy. As Kurt Meyer’s stormtroopers charged into De Popper, the Dutch defenders were ...

From Himmler’s Death’s Head formations to the mechanized fury of the Blitzkrieg, the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte ...

While German forces approached from the south, Finland closed in from the north—completing the noose around Leningrad. Driven ...

The first naval battle of World War II unfolded not in European waters, but in the South Atlantic off the coasts of Argentina ...