As August ends, the 12th SS Panzer Division faces its final, desperate battle. This gripping conclusion reveals how a mix of fierce teenage fanatics and seasoned commanders fought fiercely but were ...

Members of Adolf Hitler`s Waffen SS units buried in Bitburg`s cemetery range from teenagers pressed into service in the last days of the war to a veteran sergeant who was awarded the German Cross in ...

The most implacable opponents of the British and Canadians fighting in Normandy were the largely teenage soldiers of the Hitlerjugend From D1 through to attacking back into the Falaise Pocket this ...

They grew up under the Nazi regime. They pledged to give their lives for Hitler. They were fanatics who would not be stopped. They were the 20,000 teenagers who made up the 12th SS Panzer Division.

In one of Normandy’s most intense armored clashes, the 12th SS Panzer Division’s Panther tanks launched a surprise assault near Rots on June 8, 1944. Facing them were Canadian Sherman Fireflies of the ...

Robert Hébras, who by being shielded under dead bodies survived the infamous massacre of June 1944 in which members of an SS Panzer division killed almost everyone in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane ...

BERLIN -- German authorities say they've searched the homes of three former SS men believed to have taken part in a World War II massacre in northern France. Prosecutor Andreas Brendel told The ...