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 ...

Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the Waffen SS. He told a German newspaper he had been recruited at the age of ...

Nazi Germany’s Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf.E, usually called the Tiger, was one of the most feared tanks in the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS arsenal. It was a monster of a tank with thick frontal ...

At dawn on 5 May, they were attacked by the Waffen SS, who blew up the US tank, but were unable to storm the castle. To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video ...

Adenauer even visited former Waffen-SS General Kurt Meyer ("Panzer Meyer," or "Tank Meyer"), who was then imprisoned in the town of Werl, near Dortmund, for his involvement in the 1944 execution ...

Horst Tappert, who played the beloved baggy-eyed detective from 1974 to 1998 in a program that ran in more than 100 countries, was a member of an SS tank regiment on the Russian front, according ...

The site was an anti-tank ditch between the Czech villages of Theresienstadt and Leitmeritz. The killer was his commanding officer, 2nd Lt. Julius Viel, a man Lallier said he had respected until ...

Just weeks before the publication of his autobiography, German Nobel Laureate Günter Grass admits that, between 1944-45, he was a member of Hitler's Waffen SS. The author says the shame of his ...

Hitler’s Irish volunteers – John Mulqueen on two Irish POWs who volunteered for the Waffen-SS Irish POWs were isolated in a camp near Friesack, where they were bombarded with anti-British ...