In the weeks before the Battle of Kursk, the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler prepared for what many believed would become Germany’s decisive offensive on the Eastern Front.
Eighteen American soldiers held a frozen ridge in Belgium and delayed the spearhead of Hitler’s final World War 2 offensive. This story follows Kampfgruppe Peiper, the elite armored force of the ...
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by David Stahel, senior lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales, to discuss his new book, Hitler’s Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and ...