Germany put a 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS on trial Monday in Hagen on charges that he shot in the back and killed a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944, at the end of World War Two.
A Dutch national who joined the Nazi Waffen SS and now lives in Germany has been charged with the 1944 murder of a Dutch resistance fighter, according to international news agency AP. Siert Bruins, 91 ...
Faced with overwhelming Allied firepower, Waffen-SS units counterattacked using infantry guns, mines, and demolition charges—with surprising success. This segment reveals how the 12th SS Division used ...
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Germany's tank ace of the Waffen-SS heavy panzer division | Michael Wittmann (1914-1944)
The tank aces of the war are a bit lesser-known but no less interesting in my opinion. The most remarkable of these tank aces was the German tank commander Michael Wittmann. During his short-lived ...
Die Waffen-SS entstand 1939 als Arm der Allgemeinen SS. Immer wieder begingen ihre Mitglieder Kriegsverbrechen. Das Klischee von den blonden Hünen in schwarzen Uniformen traf aber nur selten zu. Wer ...
A 92-year-old former Nazi officer appeared in a German court yesterday, accused of murdering a Dutch resistance fighter 70 years ago. Siert Bruins, a Dutch-born German citizen and former member of the ...
BERLIN/COLOGNE (Reuters) - German prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former member of Hitler's elite Waffen SS with taking part in a World War Two massacre of hundreds of French villagers, nearly ...
Nach eigenen Angaben hat sich Günter Grass 1944 freiwillig bei der Waffen-SS gemeldet. "Das musste raus, endlich," gestand Grass. Frankfurt/Main - Literaturnobelpreisträger Günter Grass ("Die ...
Trotz solcher geschichtspolitischer Reflexe lohnt es sich, den Hintergrund der estnischen Initiative zu betrachten. Denn es handelt sich nicht um eine versuchte Rechtfertigung des Massenmordes, ...
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