80 years ago, on May 5, 1945, the strangest fight in World War II took place. American soldiers and Wehrmacht troops teamed up to fight the SS. By Nicholas Slayton Published May 5, 2025 12:31 PM EDT ...

Nazi propaganda cast the Waffen-SS as elite ideological warriors, while the Wehrmacht was framed as the nation’s traditional ...

They wore the same uniform and fought the same enemies—but trust was never complete. Wehrmacht officers criticized the Waffen ...