In March 1944, amid the deadly sweep of the Polesskoe Offensive, Soviet forces pierced the junction of frontline units and laid siege to the fortress town of Kovel, threatening to cut off many of ...

Rich Iott, the House Republican nominee in Ohio’s 9th district, belongs to a group that reenacts World War II battles as a Nazi SS division. Iott confirmed to The Atlantic that he has been a member of ...

In February 1944, as Soviet forces drew the noose tight around the pocket in Ukraine, Germany’s encircled Group Stemmermann launched a desperate breakout attempt. With 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking ...

Isenmann testified during his interrogation that his platoon, part of the Wiking Division, arrived in Lvov immediately after the Germans occupied it - at the end of June and the beginning of July 1941 ...