FILE - Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery signs the surrender pact, in a tent at Montgomery's 21st Army Group headquarters, at Luneburg Heath, May 4, 1945. The pact, signed by senior German ...
In the aftermath of Stalingrad, captured German officers revealed the brutal truth to Soviet interrogators. They admitted they knew they were doomed and were sacrificed to buy time, yet a drilled-in ...
LONDON — — April 16, 1945: The Soviet Red Army begins its final assault on Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany. — April 28: Former Italian fascist premier Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian ...