The wider Battle of Kursk - from 5 July to 23 August 1943 - was indeed a turning-point in World War Two. Soviet ... of 1942-43. But recently a British historian, Ben Wheatley, analysed German ...

The issue of German historical war guilt has also become more nuanced. Before the invasion the government argued against weapon deliveries to Ukraine because of Nazi crimes against Russia.

The World War II extermination of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in scale with the creation of death camps.

TASS/. Sahra Wagenknecht, a member of the Bundestag, on Friday criticized German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock for saying the country is at war with Russia. "Statement by Baerbock that ...