Rudolf Hess was a high-ranking member of the Nazi Party, whom Hitler appointed in 1933 as his deputy. He fought in World War I for Germany, joined the Nazi Party in 1920, and participated in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. In 1941, Hess made a solo flight to Scotland in hopes of convincing […]
Operation Bagration was a Soviet operation during World War II in 1944 that destroyed the Army Group Centre and cleared the path for the Red Army into Warsaw.
Walther Wenck was the youngest general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He participated in the battle of Berlin, commanding the 12th Army while saving thousands.
Ferdinand Schörner was a field marshal in the Wehrmacht and the final commander-in-chief of the German army (OKH). And after the Second World War’s end, he was convicted and imprisoned for his war crimes by the Soviets. EARLY LIFE Schörner was born on 12 June 1892 in Munich, Germany, the future birthplace of the Nazi