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“The Night Witches”: The Soviet Air Force’s Deadliest Female Bomber Pilots
As part of its Women’s History Month coverage, The National Interest is publishing a multi-part series honoring some of ...
Simple History on MSN8d
The US Army & German Wehrmacht VS Waffen SS - Battle for Castle Itter 1945
On 5 May 1945, a few days after Hitler’s suicide, American soldiers under command of US Army Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr.
A Brief History of the Soviet Deserters Who Aided Hitler
Hundreds of thousands of foreigners served in the Wehrmacht, most famously the Vlasov Army.
Luxembourg Times10d
80 years later, horror of Hinzert still haunts Luxembourg
It was 3 March 1945 when American soldiers liberated a concentration camp in Hinzert, Germany, about 80 kilometres from the ...
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Crystal meth helped the Nazis conquer large parts of Europe
"The Wehrmacht found out that Pervitin reduces fear, it reduces your need to sleep, and it makes you more aggressive. So these three reasons seemed perfect for the German army in 1940:" Norman ...
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Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation
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 ...