Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April in the small Austrian ... At secondary school he withdrew psychologically, preferring to re-enact battles from the Boer War than study. He left school with ...

The battle that ensued is known historically as ... more than 200,000 German troops and nearly 1,000 tanks launched Adolf Hitler's last bid to reverse the ebb in his fortunes that had begun ...

The ensuing World War II conflict—which lasted until January 25, 1945—became known as the Battle of the Bulge. In the end, the Allies managed to quash Adolf Hitler’s last-ditch effort to win ...

IT began midsummer 1944 as a dream in the mind of Adolf Hitler. By late autumn, Wehrmacht planners had transformed the dream into battle orders. Hitler proposed to regain the offensive by ...

The Fascist battle against freedom is often carried ... of 1938 were in sharp contrast save for their opposition to Adolf Hitler. One of them, Pope Pius XI, 81, spoke with “bitter sadness ...

Adolf Hitler and Hoseph Stalin agree not to invade ... railroad car in which Germans signed the armistice of 1918. The Battle of Britain begins. A three-month battle fought in the skies over ...

The battle is remembered as “hell on Earth.” On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous offensive through the quiet, thinly defended Ardennes Forest in Belgium. Adolf Hitler and ...