The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
A night of horror, and the worst maritime disaster of all time.
A night of horror, and the worst maritime disaster of all time.
As the world confronted the devastation left at the end of World War II, people everywhere struggled to comprehend the scale of bloodshed caused by the ideology of the Nazi Party.
It’s a day for the international community and men and women of good will everywhere to call to mind the six million Jews and all the other victims killed by Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
David Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and son of Field Marshal Bernard "Monty" Montgomery (1928-2020)
An incredibly thick blanket of fog hung low over Stoumont and the Amblève valley on the morning of December 19. But even through the fog, American observers on the outskirts of Stoumont could see that a sizable attack was about to commence.
Hitler had from the beginning posited the war effort as presenting only two possible outcomes: total victory or absolute defeat.
Theodor Dannecker helped Adolf Eichmann administer a continent-wide genocide.
Follow the largest battle in the history of the US Army as experienced on the Road to Berlin permanent exhibit gallery.
For the 106th Infantry Division, the Opening of the Bulge was a Death Blow.
At the end of the day, the veterans of the 26th Infantry still held their ground and looked out on a battlefield strewn with destroyed German armor and scores of enemy dead.