In this visceral opening chapter, we descend into the snow-cloaked chaos of Marvie as the 101st Airborne faces its first ...

A British armored column is crossing the quiet French town of Villers-Bocage, unaware of the storm about to erupt. Waffen SS Panzer Commander Michael Wittmann awaits in his Tiger tank, prepared for ...

On one arm, the UN staffer bears a tattoo in German, reading, "My honor is loyalty." The sentence is the motto of the Waffen SS, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

The Latvian Legion, a combat branch of Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS, was established in 1943 under Adolf Hitler’s orders and primarily consisted of ethnic Latvians.

The event honored Waffen-SS collaborators, paying tribute to a failed operation in which Nazi and Hungarian troops attempted to break out of the city during the Soviet Army’s siege in 1945.

As for the Nazis’ battlefield losses, their official reports admit to only 17 killed in action and 93 wounded; these official casualty lists included members of Waffen-SS training and reserve ...

The unlikely involvement of Stringer and Brady in the military wing of the SS – they came from Leitrim and Roscommon respectively – began in Guernsey before the second World War broke out.

Born in 1921, Kulle was a member of the Hitler Youth before volunteering for the combat wing of the Waffen-SS in 1940. “Other boys in the Hitler Youth were wary of joining the SS, alarmed at the ...

Large numbers of soldiers from a Ukrainian Waffen SS division fled to Canada after the Second World War. By David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen Published Sep 04, 2024 Last updated Sep 06, 2024 ...

The university’s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies received endowments and donations worth more than $1-million from Ukrainians who served in the Waffen-SS Galicia division or who helped ...

Even so, RCMP checks on the background of an Estonian who entered Canada as a defector in 1957 revealed that he had served in a police battalion in 1941-42 and later joined the Waffen-SS.