The International Criminal Court has “reasonable grounds to believe” war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed, ...

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst is showing an exhibition on the fate of Soviet prisoners of war in ...

Hannes Heer: Millions of Wehrmacht soldiers took part in the crimes of World War II, compared to about 250,000 members of the SS, who were directly responsible for the Holocaust.

This three-part series of articles is based on two books that appeared in the 1990s: Friedrich Andrae’s Auch Gegen Frauen und Kinder—Der Krieg der Deutschen Wehrmacht Gegen die ...

Manstein was the last of the defendants in the war-crimes trials of World War II. When his British judges handed down their verdict this week, the Allies closed their case against the enemy ...

He was Major General Erwin Lahousen, aide to the late, little-known Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Wehrmacht’s counterintelligence.

What made Germany's army so relentless? This chapter dives deep into the blood-and-iron foundation of the Wehrmacht, from ...

The crimes of the SS and the Wehrmacht in Greece are a niche topic for German historians and ordinary Germans know little about the period.

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 the Soviet Union.

D-Day may have been the beginning of the end of Germany's campaign of horror during World War II. But a new book by British historian Antony Beevor makes it clear that the "greatest generation ...

German prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old man with war crimes after discovering he was a former soldier who manned the watchtowers at one of the Nazis' notorious prisoner of war camps. The ...