The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had been lost, both in the Wehrmacht and even among some ideological diehard ...

Cut off on a hill in the Caucasus, two Finnish Waffen SS volunteers fought for hours against repeated Soviet attacks while the war in the south was already turning against Germany. This is one of the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Before the Waffen-SS soldiers attacked the castle, Gangl had managed to phone members of the Austrian resistance in Wörgl, explaining the situation. The resistance ...