To German officers and soldiers, Vasily Chuikov was the relentless commander whose gritty, close-quarters tactics at Stalingrad turned the city into a brutal fortress. Known for his "hugging the enemy ...

As the war dragged on, the Waffen-SS morphed into a multinational force—drawing fighters from over a dozen countries, including France, India, and even Britain. Meanwhile, the Wehrmacht remained ...

Last month, the German army published a document asserting that it bases itself on the tradition of the Wehrmacht, the army of the Nazi regime that massacred and starved tens of millions of civilians ...