In the weeks before the Battle of Kursk, the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler prepared for what many ...
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by David Stahel, senior lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales, to discuss his new book, Hitler’s Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and ...
The Waffen-SS armored divisions fought in some of the largest and most destructive battles of World War II, from the Eastern ...
The term “Panzer” refers to a series of German tanks, the Panzer I through Panzer IV early in the war, followed by heavier combatants such as the Panther and Tiger Early Panzer IIIs carried 37–50mm ...
Next year, humankind would be commemorating 80 years since the start of the biggest global conflict the world has ever seen. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany forces invaded Poland from the West, ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: What it lacked in firepower, it made up for in numbers and speed, where groups of Panzer IIs could encircle enemy units. Its development began before Germany had ...