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MHQ Magazine
On Hitler’s 50th, adoring Germans hailed their leader for making their country a great power again and for stopping short of the all-out war they so feared—or so they thought....
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Military History Magazine
Léon Degrelle was willing to put his convictions on the line on the Russian Front. Of the many European Fascist leaders who collaborated with the German forces that occupied their countries during World War II, Léon Joseph Marie Ignace...
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Military History Magazine
The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich by Stephen P. Halbrook, Casemate Publishers, Havertown, Pa., 2006, $29.95. “It is night, and soldiers on duty hear aircraft, plot their...
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Military History Magazine
In World War II Jerzy Krzyzanowski resisted the Nazi occupation, only to be arrested by the Soviets. Germany invaded and quickly defeated Poland in 1939, but Polish units—including the clandestine or Home Army—continued to fight until...
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Aviation History Magazine
The highest-scoring German ace of WWII—and of all time—chalked up an incredible 352 aerial victories. The Soviet pilot German warplanes. It was May 8, 1945—Adolf Hitler had been dead for over a week, and Germany was surrendering....
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Military History Magazine
Capture is an occupational hazard for soldiers and escape is a POW’s duty—some even succeed with imagination and style....
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World War II Magazine
Jagdgeschwader 301/302 “Wilde Sau,” In Defense of the Reich with the Bf 109, Fw 190 and Ta 152 by Willi Reschke; Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, Pa., 2005, $39.95. Jagdgeschwader 301/302 “Wilde Sau” is a unit history with a...
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World War II Magazine
Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich by Stephen G. Fritz; University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2004, $35. Stephen Fritz, author of Frontsoldaten, has produced another winner. Endkampf is the story of the...
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World War II Magazine
No present-day company is more a product of military might than Volkswagen. On May 26, 1938, just outside the new town of Fallersleben in lower Saxony, Adolf Hitler spoke at a cornerstone dedication ceremony for a new factory. The factory,...
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World War II Magazine
Helmut Wilberg was a Prussian officer and a gentleman. He radiated confidence, was built like a linebacker and had clear blue eyes that gazed out from his square face. Typical of his class, he was apolitical, a consummate professional and...
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World War II Magazine
War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans by Ben Shepherd; Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2004, $29.95. In the mid-1990s, the Wehrmacht exhibition (Wehrmachts-Ausstellung) that traveled to cities in Germany and...
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World War II Magazine
Hitler’s Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East by Edward B. Westermann; University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2005, $34.95. This book is an excellent complement to—and extension of—the work begun by Christopher...
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World War II Magazine
The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld; Cambridge University Press, New York, 2005, $30. This is a deeply disturbing book— but not for the reasons one might suspect. It does not...
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World War II Magazine
Werner Kurkowski already knew the war was lost when he was dropped into the maelstrom of Monte Cassino. Nevertheless, the young German paratrooper fought on with grim determination in a battle of attrition that ground his unit into dust....
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World War II Magazine
As any buff knows, the term “World War II” is something of a misnomer. In fact, the conflict consisted of several great wars taking place at the same time, culminating by 1945 in one horrific symphony of destruction. It is customary...
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World War II Magazine
On June 22, 1941, the first day of the German invasion of Russia, the Luftwaffe took advantage of beautiful weather to attack targets deep in enemy territory. Playing a big part in the initial onslaught were Messerschmitt Me-109E fighters...
