Key Point: The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to the prestige of Hitler’s small but expensive navy. Just before he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, the German officer penned a final ...

The headlong pursuit by the Allied armies had all but wiped the Germans from the soil of France. They still held out desperately in the ports, determined to hamstring Allied supply to the bitter end.

Red Army soldiers hoist the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, May 2, 1945. The German Parliament (Bundestag) has excluded the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus from the main commemoration of ...

Eight decades ago, U.S. Army soldiers raised the American flag in the center of Nuremberg. They stood atop a bunker adorned with Nazi symbols, now in the hands of Allied forces after five days of ...