The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

During the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive spanned across a roughly ... Universal News released this clip on Jan. 11, 1945, reporting on the Battle of the Bulge in Europe.

Now, while keeping Hitler as the Führer symbol, Himmler does the dictator’s job of maintaining Germany at war. Around himself and his henchmen he has formed the last granite-hard core of German ...

Yet there was still no sign of German collapse. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had learned his lesson, said to correspondents in Paris: “If the German continues to show the spirit he has now ...

For the Rainbow Division, their attack would lead into Germany and capture the cities of Wurzburg, Schweinfurt, Furth, Nuremberg, Dachau and Munich before the war ended in May of 1945. Read next ...

In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...