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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...
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World War II Magazine
In 2012 film Rommel, the myth of the famous German general as an apolitical figure falls apart...
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World War II Magazine
"Battle Films"columnist Mark Grimsley takes on the movie that made the myth behind German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel...
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World War II Magazine
Wealth, night clubs, decadent balls. Author Susan Gould write how socialite Florence Gould had it all—and did anything to keep it when war came to France. ...
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World War II Magazine
Historian Edith Sheffer’s delves into the horrors of Spiegelgrund, a children's hospital where a doctor named Hans Asperger focused his efforts on children whose “deviant behavior”mfailed to conform to the Nazi Aryan ideology....
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MHQ Magazine
On the outer wall of St. John’s Cathedral in the Stare Miasto, Warsaw’s Old Town, a peculiar memorial exists in the form of a miniature caterpillar track. This is a relic from some of the most unusual additions to Germany’s World War...
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World War II Magazine
Author and scholar Stephen G. Fritz reexamines the myth behind the portrayal of Hitler as a bumbling military officer ...
