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The USSR had to pay a high price for victory in the most horrendous conflict in human history. More than 27 million of its own citizens died in the...

Even on the brink of collapse, the Nazis were able to mount a large-scale offensive against Soviet forces, while the Japanese were resisting...

Heavily armed and heavily armored, the SU-100 could punch through virtually all Nazi Germany’s armored vehicles.

The Nazis’ ferocious final strike in WWII (PHOTOS) Getty Images Despite Soviet troops in the spring of 1945 being just a few dozen miles from Berlin, Hitler decided to concentrate his main strike force somewhere else entirely. On the morning of March 6, 1945, after a massive artillery bombardment, an avalanche of German tanks and infantry came crashing down on the Soviet positions in the region of Lakes Balaton and Velence and the Drava River in Hungary. This was the start of Operation Spring Awakening, which turned out to be the last major German offensive of WWII. Getty ...

The death throes of the Third Reich were not pretty and took many lives. Key Point: Berlin was doomed, yet they continued to resist. Here is how Nazi Germany finally came to its brutal end. In January 12, 1945, Hitler received the news he had been dreading—the Soviet Red Army had launched its winter offensive. He wasted no time. Within four days Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, commander in chief West, received the following order: “CinC West is to withdraw the following formations from operations [they were still involved in the Battle of the Bulge] immediately and refit them: I SS Panz...