Montenegro marks its Statehood Day today in memory of July 13, 1878, when it received international recognition as an ...

Adolf Hitler's army launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in history, sweeping into Russia with devastating speed. The Red Army, poorly organized and underprepared was caught off-guard ...

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

The budget debate in the Bundestag was a repulsive spectacle, demonstrating the ruthlessness with which the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats are implementing a reckless programme of rearmament ...

Visit a full-scale replica of the world-famous Amber Room, which was looted by Nazi forces, and is now reconstructed in a ...

ON June 22 1941 Nazi Germany began its invasion of the Soviet Union. This history of its first weeks is based on a decade’s research, into official documents, personal diaries and letters, court ...

On Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler held his first Cabinet meeting in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Friends and sycophants ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 10. Check what happened ...