Berlin was in ruins, the war was lost, and no one argued with Adolf Hitler anymore. But on March 12, 1945, one German general walked into the Reich…

Lautlingen, Germany — In the final, chaotic months of the Second World War, a pregnant woman named Nina von Stauffenberg sat in isolation in a Gestapo cell, her…

BERLIN — In a single afternoon at the height of his power, Adolf Hitler transformed twelve generals into field marshals inside the Croll Opera House, handing each an…

BADEN-BADEN, Germany — The wedding ring arrived on one of the last planes to leave the Stalingrad pocket in January 1943, a small parcel carried out of a…

BONN, West Germany — The man who took command of West Germany’s tank forces in 1967 bore a name that had once been synonymous with the Blitzkrieg itself,…

HANOVER — Hans Gerd von Rundstedt, the only son of Germany’s most senior surviving field marshal, died of cancer in a Hanover hospital on January 12, 1948, at…

BONN, West Germany — The man who took command of West Germany’s tank forces in 1967 bore a name that had once been synonymous with the Blitzkrieg itself,…

In a quiet Berlin villa in September 1938, a raiding party stood ready to storm the Reich Chancellery and seize Adolf Hitler, a coup drawn up inside the…

Karl Dönitz, the admiral who commanded Germany’s entire U-boat war and briefly led the collapsing Nazi state as Hitler’s designated successor, lost both of his sons to the…