Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kurth / Wikimedia Commons (Kurth / Wikimedia Commons) The Panzer tank family was at the heart of German operations throughout ...

Soon after nightfall on May 12, 1940, German scouts crept through war-torn countryside along the Meuse River, passing blown bridges and searching for a crossing to the western bank. Suddenly they ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The success of mechanized units against Poland later informed the Wehrmacht’s maneuver-oriented strategy in the Battle of France. When over 1.5 million German soldiers ...

Key point: A British officer developed a plan for a massive combined-arms offensive in 1919 that might have won World War I if it had dragged on that long. Blitzkrieg is usually thought of as a German ...

100 days in 1940, World War II: Winston Churchill, blitzkrieg and the "Finest Hour". On the May 10th 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — and Germany launched its ...

In the summer of 1941, the German Wehrmacht swept into the Soviet Union with stunning speed, confident its panzers were ...

When Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, its armored forces expected another swift victory. Instead, they encountered the ...

Who would have thought that the German army could be so insensitive? A video airing on Teutonic television shows a German drill sergeant goose-stepping all over New York City’s feelings by ordering a ...