The symbol was used by Hitler's elite SS brigade who, among other tasks, would guard concentration camps. The Waffen SS division, the 3rd SS 'Totenkopf' Panzer Division, is notorious for engaging ...

Fritz Hippler The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking or SS Division Wiking was an infantry and later an armoured division among the thirty-eight Waffen-SS divisions of Nazi Germany active 1941-1945.

This biographical study of four German panzer army commanders serving on the Eastern Front is based upon their unpublished wartime letters to their wives. David Stahel offers a complete picture of the ...

Berlin police have banned military marches, songs, Russian flags, banners, St. George's ribbons, and the V and Z symbols at Victory Day celebrations at three major Soviet memorials. The Russian ...

Germany has been shaped by division and unity since the end of World War Two. The exhibition was on display in Moscow's Victory Park, it included British hardware given to Ukraine. Ahmed Alhashimi ...

The German Panzer V Panther tank was well-traveled in World War II, being used for battles in Italy, France, Belgium, and Holland.

No significant decisions could be taken without his authorisation. Crucial German panzer divisions which may have delayed the Allied invasion could not be moved until Hitler woke up. The landings ...

The German Football Association (DFB) is working to redesign soccer jerseys with numbers that have conjured up memories of the country’s Nazi past. The uniforms in question feature a number 4 ...

Adidas has banned Germany football fans from personalising shirts with the number 44 amid concerns it resembles the symbol used by World War Two-era Nazi SS units. The Nazi party’s Schutzstaffel ...