When Hitler ordered the halt at Dunkirk, one man disobeyed. Sepp Dietrich and his Leibstandarte defied the Führer and crossed the canal anyway, chasing a victory they believed was slipping away. What ...

On May 10th, 1940, Hitler unleashed his elite SS troops into the Netherlands with orders to break through without mercy. As Kurt Meyer’s stormtroopers charged into De Popper, the Dutch defenders were ...

The Nazi Collaborators Monuments Project chronicles monuments, memorials, and other honors given to Nazis around the world.

While official narratives long ignored these acts of retaliation, surviving testimonies reveal a grim and silenced reality. The brutal Soviet revenge against SS men in 1945 stands as one of the ...

This list is part of an ongoing investigative project the Forward first published in January 2021 documenting hundreds of ...