A total of around 12.5 million Germans served in the army during the Second World War. It is estimated that of these, between 3 and 3.5 million were killed. By ...
16, 1944, more than 200,000 German troops and nearly 1,000 tanks launched Adolf Hitler's last bid to reverse the ebb in his fortunes that had begun when Allied ...
The background materials here provide overviews of the Wehrmacht's relationship to Nazism, the crimes the Wehrmacht committed during World War II, and the ...
Wehrmacht, (German: “defense power”) the armed forces of the Third Reich. The three primary branches of the Wehrmacht were the Heer (army), Luftwaffe (air force) ...
During World War II, a total of about 13.6 million soldiers served in the German Army. Army personnel were made up of volunteers and conscripts. Only 17 months ...
