Getty Images 75 years ago during the Battle of Kursk the Nazis lost the strategic initiative. After the defeat at Kursk, the Wehrmacht was in retreat until Hitler's Germany was crushed in 1945.

the German ‘Operation Typhoon’ — aimed at seizing the Russian capital — fell through completely. As a result, the Wehrmacht was thrown back several hundred kilometers. However, despite ...

Many of the photos in SPIEGEL's new photo book "Images of World War II," were only possible because German soldiers hid ... dependend on rebuilding the Wehrmacht, the country's once-powerful ...