You Searched For "Nazi Germany" and got 20 results
Sort By:
6 mins read
The US military is trying to identify dozens of airmen who didn't make it home from a daring bomber raid on 'Hitler's gas station'
US airmen were told that bombing Nazi oil refineries in Ploesti could shorten WWII by six months. T…
Katie Sanders and Mara Storey
2 mins read
Adidas is banning the number '44' on German soccer team jerseys over concerns that the design looks like the Nazi SS flag
The design of the digit "4" on the jersey prompted some to believe it looked like a lightning bolt …
Matthew Loh
4 mins read
Ukraine must win back the battlefield initiative to have a chance to stop Russia
Ukraine needs to shift its strategy to defeat the Russian force superior in numbers and firepower, …
Michael Peck
4 mins read
A daring but costly British raid kept the Nazis from repairing their biggest warship
By spring 1942, the British had survived the Battle of Britain and opened a second front in North A…
Benjamin Brimelow
4 mins read
Russia's military struggles in Ukraine are starting to look like a bloody Soviet attack on a smaller neighbor during World War II
The Winter War "led to the belief that maybe the Soviet military in some ways is just terrible," an…
Benjamin Brimelow
3 mins read
Jewish groups in Spain are troubled by their government's decision to cling onto a painting looted by the Nazis
Leading Jewish organizations in Spain condemned the country's decision to keep a Nazi-looted Pissar…
Mia Jankowicz,Thibault Spirlet
3 mins read
Russia's former president is calling for a 'maximum reward' bounty to be put on the heads of any NATO troops sent to Ukraine
In a social-media outburst on Thursday, Medvedev advocated for a "no prisoners taken" approach with…
Matthew Loh
6 mins read
Putin's speeches invoke Russia's fight against fascism in WWII to justify the war in Ukraine — and use propaganda strategies from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, historian says
Historian Stephen Norris told Insider Putin's speeches have gotten more apocalyptic, framing the Uk…
Kelsey Vlamis
2 mins read
Ukrainian leaders compare Russia's attack on Kyiv to Nazi Germany's assault on the city in 1941
"Ukraine defeated that evil and will defeat this one," Ukraine's top diplomat said as Russia attack…
Kelsey Vlamis
4 mins read
What the Allies' first humiliating encounter with the Nazis taught them about how to win World War II
The Battle of Kasserine Pass "was probably the worst performance of U.S. Army troops in their whole…
Benjamin Brimelow
5 mins read
An MIT professor devised a 'Fortress Ukraine' plan in 1994 that proved remarkably right about the Russian invasion
Prof. Barry Posen anticipated Ukraine's challenges against a Russian attack 30 years ago, and offer…
Michael Peck
5 mins read
Artist's discovery of an 'execution wall' sheds light on the brutal history of Nazi concentration camps on British soil
Thousands of prisoners were forced under horrifying conditions into labor and concentration camps i…
Isobel van Hagen
5 mins read
The Nazis built their 2 most powerful warships before World War II. Here's how the British hunted them down.
Bismarck and Tirpitz were Nazi Germany's most imposing warships, and the Allies hunted them across …
Benjamin Brimelow
4 mins read
The Nazis were already shooting at US warships months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
The US officially declared war on the Nazis on December 11, 1941, but the US Navy had already been …
Benjamin Brimelow
2 mins read
A 96-year-old former Nazi secretary is on trial for charges related to complicity in 11,000 deaths in Germany, weeks after trying to flee retirement home
Furchner is being tried in a juvenile court because she was 18 when she started working in the camp…
Azmi Haroun
2 mins read
A Republican congressman compares Palestinian civilians to 'Nazi civilians' on the House floor
More than 8,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed in less than a month by the Israeli military…
Madison Hall
2 mins read
Ukraine's official Twitter is using memes to rip into Putin's bogus comparison between it and Nazi Germany
Putin said he attacked Ukraine because he wanted the "de-Nazification" of the country. Ukraine's pr…
Jake Epstein,Kieran Press-Rey…
2 mins read
A 100-year-old former Nazi death camp guard is finally on trial in Germany
Prosecutors allege that Josef S. contributed to more than 3,000 people's deaths at the Sachsenhause…
Erin Snodgrass
2 mins read
Former Nazi secretary, 96, who tried to flee her trial once warned she wouldn't show up to court as it would make her 'the mockery of humanity,' report says
Irmgard Furchner, who used to work in a Poland concentration camp and faces 11,000 counts of access…
Sophia Ankel
2 mins read
A 96-year-old former Nazi secretary, who faces 11,000 counts of accessory to murder, has been caught after escaping her care home on the day of her trial
The woman, identified as Irmgard Furchner, has been charged with more than 11,000 counts of accesso…