The Ratte supertank was a time-consuming fever dream that further delayed the Reich’s deluded leadership from addressing the reality that they were being utterly defeated.

During this period, the Germans needed no wonder weapons. After the Soviet counterattack, Pearl Harbor, and the German declaration of war against the United States, the war had become one of ...

Putting a relative of the Nazi engineer who created weapons of mass destruction in touch with a slave laborer who assembled them in conditions so horrific that 20,000 prisoners died was a nonstarter.