Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not since Napoleon did any one country control so much of the continent. Here ...

In May 1938, Hitler planned to invade Czechoslovakia in October and bring the ethnic Germans there back into Germany. This invasion would be without provocation, but Germany put significant ...

The offensive, which strained an already weakened Germany, helped bring about the end of World War II less than a year later. D-Day, the largest land, sea, and air invasion ever attempted ...