From regiments and platoons to battlefield improvisation, Part 4 explores the layered brilliance of Germany’s war tactics. Learn how squad-level initiative, decentralized command, and rapid response ...

In 1935, Hitler defied the Treaty of Versailles by reinstating military conscription and expanding Germany’s armed forces. This marked the transformation from the Reichswehr to the Wehrmacht ...

In 15 months of hard fighting the Wehrmacht had not conquered a single other nation nor won a decisive battle. On Oct. 23, 1942, ... Possibly the German General Staff, ...

Bechler, also a former Wehrmacht major, who in the meantime had risen to become a major general in the KVP, expressed his agitation that his superior constantly ignores regulations, citing a ...

MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) published for the first time a testimony by a Wehrmacht general about Nazi Germany’s wide-spread war crimes on the territory of ...

When the Wehrmacht began to surrender, the general led the remnants of his outfit to neutral Liechtenstein. The men scattered. Pressured by the Kremlin, the tiny principality ordered the general ...

Army History No. 77, Fall 2010 Neutralizing the “Hard Centre of German Militarism”: U.S. Military Government and the Wehrmacht’s Elite Officers, 1945–1948 This is the metadata section. ... What they ...