City under siege leningrad

During the early days Operation Barbarossa, Army Group Centre’s rapid advance surrounded hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers in the Białystok-Minsk area. What ensued was a catastrophic defeat for the Soviet defenders

Formerly the Prussian stronghold of Königsberg, since 1945 this region has been a Soviet, then Russian, foothold in Eastern Europe

How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory

With casualties mounting and citizens starving, what effect would Stalin striking another deal with Hitler have had?

In 1942, the German war machine was at the height of its power. France, the ‘hereditary enemy’, was defeated and occupied. In the Soviet Union, Army Group South was marching inexorably toward the Cauc

An idyllic neighbourhood on the edge of Berlin was once home to elite Nazis who carried out some of the worst crimes of the era. Eighty years on, the families that live there are still grappling with its tangled legacy. Sally McGrane reports