They swore loyalty until death—and many met it in the ruins of Hitler’s empire. In the final chapter of the Waffen SS, we follow their failed last stand at Lake Balaton, their brutal retreat through ...

The Waffen-SS enters the crucible of war in Poland, transitioning from a political force to a military one. Through ...

France History How these sons of Waffen-SS deal with such a legacy: 'When your father is a bastard, you have to live with that stain' By Benoît Hopquin Published on March 30, 2025, at 8:00 pm ...

Hitler’s Irish volunteers – John Mulqueen on two Irish POWs who volunteered for the Waffen-SS Irish POWs were isolated in a camp near Friesack, where they were bombarded with anti-British ...

The Waffen-SS entered Vianden and attacked the castle, trying to breach the walls with their grenade launchers. Despite their numerical superiority, it took them quite a while to succeed because the ...

Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the Waffen SS. He told a German newspaper he had been recruited at the age of ...

German far right’s problems deepen after SS remarks AfD top candidate Maximilian Krah announced he will stop EU election campaigning following spy and corruption allegations — and a recent comment ...

In honoring a book depicting Ukrainian volunteers in the Waffen SS as heroes and patriots, the group reveals historical ignorance—or indifference to antisemitism.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invited Yaroslav Hunka, the Ukrainian Waffen-SS veteran who received two ovations in the House of Commons during a visit by Volodymyr Zelensky, to a reception he ...

A panel to discuss the Waffen SS was quietly cancelled at the University of Alberta after professors there complained that the institution continues to engage in whitewashing Nazi crimes.

After the standing ovation for Nazi collaborator Yaroslav Hunka by the Canadian parliament, the Waffen SS Galicia division has been openly glorified on Ukrainian television.