Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

Discover how Allied forces and brilliant women analysts uncovered and delayed Hitler’s V2 rocket program, saving countless ...

In August 1944, Parisians rose up in open defiance against their Nazi occupiers, sparking a street-by-street rebellion as ...

As Allied troops neared the French capital, Hitler’s chosen commander—General Dietrich von Choltitz—was handed a brutal order: destroy Paris. But what made this hardened veteran of the Eastern Front ...

In the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge, Joachim Peiper led the spearhead of Germany’s last major offensive on the Western Front. With King Tigers and elite Waffen-SS units at his disposal, ...

On a spring evening in Nuremberg, an orchestra of New York students gathered for a concert celebrating 80 years since the end ...

As Operation Barbarossa stormed east, Hitler expected full Finnish support to crush Leningrad. But Marshal Mannerheim had ...

As Soviet divisions closed in on Kharkov, German forces faced collapse. SS General Hausser made a fateful decision to withdraw, defying direct orders from Hitler. What followed was a harrowing ...

Adolf Hitler saw Leningrad not just as a military target, but as a symbol of communism that had to be destroyed. This episode ...