As Germany's military situation collapsed in 1945, tensions inside Hitler's headquarters reached a breaking point. Heinz Guderian, once one of the architects of Germany's greatest victories, ...

Germany assembled roughly 900,000 troops and 2,700 tanks and self-propelled guns for Operation Citadel, an attempt to crush the Soviet forces inside the Kursk salient in July 1943. Hitler himself ...

PANZER LEADER [528 pp.)—Heinz Guderian—Dutton ($7.50). Watching a weapons demonstration at Kummersdorf one day in 1933. Chancellor Adolf Hitler exclaimed with delight: “That’s what I need! That’s what ...

In 1918, as all good Nazis know, the great German Army was betrayed and brought down by a collapsing home front. That could never happen this time; Führer Adolf Hitler had taken measures. Yet this ...

A German general during World War II. He was Chief of Mobile Forces and was Inspector-General of Armored Forces in the Final Year of the War Short summary describing this character.

Major Gen. Heinz Günther Guderian, of the Federal Republic of Germany, made a three-day visit to Fort Knox in April 1973. The son of famed German armor Gen. Heinz Guderian was met with an honor ...

The renewed debate in the United States about monuments to historical figures associated with the Confederacy is part of the larger debate about the role of racism in this country. The history of ...