The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. In this 1945 silent footage, ...
Operation Barbarossa, original name Operation Fritz, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to ...
As the Soviet war machine closed in on the heart of Nazi Germany, the Eastern Front descended into chaos. Hitler’s last defenses were stretched thin, with exhausted Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS units ...