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TheCollector on MSNWhy Were Germany’s Blitzkrieg Tactics So Effective in WWII?French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...
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The National Interest on MSN“The Night Witches”: The Soviet Air Force’s Deadliest Female Bomber PilotsTo answer that question, we turn to former Sunday Times of London journalist Russell Miller in his 1984 book The Soviet Air ...
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The Battle of Itter Castle: WWII’s Strangest BattleIn one of the most bizarre battles of World War II, U.S. soldiers, Wehrmacht troops, and an unlikely group of French VIP prisoners found themselves fighting side by side against the Waffen SS in ...
The U.S. hoped that if German POWs were treated humanely, Germany would reciprocate in its treatment of American prisoners.
The capture of the bridge at Remagen, a surprisingly intact path into Germany, helped U.S. troops hasten the end of World War ...
In his review of “Crucibles of Power,” Prof. Gary Saul Morson speculates that “Hitler might well have won [his war against the Soviet Union] had he abolished collective farms and allowed ...
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