The Waffen SS: Hitler's Foreign Legion

From 1929 until the regime's collapse in 1945, the SS was the foremost agency of security, surveillance, and terror within Germany and German-occupied Europe.

The Waffen SS is integrated into the German Army.

In June 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, and all the Waffen-SS formations were involved.

German troops face unbearable conditions in Russia.

A look into the recruitment process for the Waffen SS.

In September 1944, after the victorious end of the Normandy campaign, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery devised a daring operation to open the way to the Ruhr.

The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.