As Nazi Germany collapsed in 1945, SS General Gottlob Berger oversaw the forced evacuation of huge numbers of prisoners from ...
In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...
At Appomattox, Ulysses S. Grant offered Robert E. Lee's army magnanimous surrender terms, sparing thousands of lives.
In May 1945, Hitler was dead, Berlin in ruins, and millions displaced. From Dönitz’s desperate government in the north to the ...