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The message on this German propaganda poster from 1944
How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned
Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg
In the oppressive heat of his cell in the Mont-Valérien military prison west of Paris on 31 August 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry wrote a despairing letter to his wife, drank half a bott
How the Thule Society’s warped vision of supposed German Aryan heritage influenced the rise of National Socialism
On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t
The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind
