The Atlantic Wall was Hitler’s attempt to seal off Europe from Allied invasion, but it turned into one of the most expensive strategic failures in WWII. Stretching thousands of miles, it cost a ...

To make D-Day a success, the Allies thought they might have to break through formidable German defences. One unconventional idea was a "giant firework".

Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda. He used inflammatory ...

It never was a sure thing penetrating Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall.” ... The invasion led to another 11 months of intense combat until Hitler killed himself in a Berlin bunker on April 30, ...

The men who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day achieved one of the great milestones of the war — breaching Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall” and gaining a foothold on a continent desperate ...

An artist found evidence of an 'execution wall' that sheds light on the Nazi occupation of a British island. Piers Secunda's exhibition, "Alderney: the Holocaust on British soil," opens in London ...

NEW ORLEANS -- The gray, concrete, heavily scarred slabs that arrived at the National World War II Museum this week are more than just chunks of an old wall to Section of 'Hitler's Wall' sent to ...

Adolf Hitler called it the "Atlantic Wall", and there are still many traces of it, littering beaches from the Bay of Biscay to the sub-Arctic fjords. ...