In the summer of 1941, the world witnessed one of the most daring and devastating military operations in history: Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. This documentary ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maria Limanskaya directing traffic at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945 - Evgeny Khaldey Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged ...

On June 22, 1941, the German Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe struck Soviet forces across a wide front along the German-Soviet frontier. Romanian forces attacked into Soviet-occupied Bessarabia on the same day ...

Nazi hatred of the Soviet Union played a larger role in precipitating the Holocaust than is generally understood, according to this riveting revisionist study. Historian Hellbeck (Stalingrad) recaps ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

Eager soldiers pull copies of the Stars and Stripes newspaper from the press of the London Times at 9 p.m. on May 7, 1945, when an extra edition was put out to announce the news of Germany's surrender ...

Daniela Gerson chronicles her family’s not-so-unique journey in her new book, “The Wanderers," a blend of memoir, history, ...