During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked ...

To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had been lost, both in the Wehrmacht and even among some ideological diehard Waffen-SS. Europe was filled with large groups of refugees, ...

Unlike ordinary German POWs, captured Waffen-SS men were considered war criminals by the Red Army. For Stalin’s Soviet Union, ...