These weren’t ordinary soldiers—they were engineered. Through brutal training, ideological indoctrination, and merciless conditioning, SS officer schools turned young men into zealots ready to die—and ...

Thousands of European volunteers who had joined the Waffen SS found themselves abandoned, surrounded, and left with nowhere ...

As head of the Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie was notorious for his cruelty. After World War II, he escaped to Bolivia, aided by the U.S. government, where he helped military regimes crush opposition ...

German state prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former Waffen SS soldier with involvement in a Second World War massacre in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane in which 642 people, many ...

A tombstone with the emblem of the Waffen SS division "Galicia" at the cemetery in Canada (archive photo). Photo: Lvivske / CC BY-SA 3.0 Ukraine is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the death of ...

Although the Waffen-SS men buried in Bitburg were included in the commemoration of Reagan's visit only by a stupid coincidence, the Chancellor extended the cloak of forgiveness to them as well. He did ...

As the first rays of light warmed the castle interior on the morning of May 5 1945, between 100-150 men from the nearby Waffen-SS division opened their assault on the medieval fortress. American ...

This is how Philippe Douroux, Alain Lejeune and Eric Frantz learned that they were the sons of former Waffen-SS. Not the "malgré-nous" type, like the men from Alsace-Lorraine who were forcibly ...

Aarni was one of 1,408 Finnish men who volunteered to serve in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS during World War II and took part in Hitler’s campaign of extermination against the Soviet Union.

The Waffen-SS entered Vianden and attacked the castle, trying to breach the walls with their grenade launchers. Despite their numerical superiority, it took them quite a while to succeed because the ...

Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the Waffen SS. He told a German newspaper he had been recruited at the age of ...

The Waffen-SS troops were in the mood for revenge. Hundreds of their comrades had been killed or injured in the course of a pitched battle for control of the French village of Graignes in June ...