Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
Richard F. Wiegand, born in Maryland, USA, enlisted into the US Army in 1943. He was killed in action on Christmas Day 1...
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Major General Walter E. Lauer was born in Brooklyn, New York. During the Second World he commanded the US 99th Infantr...
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Lonnie O. Holloway Junior enlisted with the United States Army in February 1942 at Camp Carson, Colorado. He fought du...
Little is known about Robert Wilhelm (9 December 1919 - 10 August 1944). He was killed in the fighting in Normandy and...
Little is known about the German navy Corporal Karl Stein (19 April 1922 - 5 May 1942). He died during his deployment ...
Horst Rimkus (26 April 1926 - 10 August 1944), was killed in action in Normandy at the young age of eighteen years....
Ludwig Lindenmayer (14 November 1923 - 16 July 1944), died during the fighting in Normandy, aged 20. He remained in the ...
Fritz Luck (16 April 1913 - 22 July 1944), was a soldier in the German navy from 1933 onwards. He died in a car accide...
Walter Ackermann (19 October 1911 - 22 July 1944), enlisted in the Wehrmacht in 1940 and became an English prisoner of...
Heinz Semmelbeck (27 August 1908 - 6 July 1944) was a lawyer born in Niederhochstedt. After his legal training, he bec...
Leo von Poblotzki (10 April 1921 - 14 June 1944) was born in in Altengrabow, near Magdeburg, to a family that was crit...
Ottfried Muthesius (21 April 1921 - 25 September 1945), was taken prisoner of war as a non-commissioned officer in March...
SS-Hauptsturmführer (SS-Captain) Michael Wittmann (22 April 1914 - 8 August 1944) was considered the most successful t...
Bernhard Frerking (1 December 1912- 6 June 1944), was born in Hanover. He became a member of the National Socialist Ge...
In 1945, the pastor of Roetgen was one of the first people to be liberated by the US troops. He was one of many oppone...
The first free Mayor of Aachen, Franz Oppenhoff, was murdered by Nazis immediately after the liberation....
Milena Bernabò was fifteen years old on August 12, 1944. She was rounded up together with other people and locked up in ...