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Nazis take the Sudetenland (1937) part 2
confrontation resulted in forcing Henlein into the arms of Adolf Hitler, who promised to provide an international sounding board for the Sudeten case. Hitler of course, more than welcomed the opportunity of making the Sudeten case his own and did not hesitate to misuse the principle of self-determination as a weapon to further his own Lebensraum policy. -
Nazis take the Sudetenland (1937)
It is easy to understand how these notions arose, yet neither Henlein at the outset of his political career nor the SdP for many years of its development had anything to do with the National Socialist movement in Germany. Both were originally dedicated to a democratic settlement of the Sudeten German question, which was to be achieved by peaceful negotiations in the Czech parliament. All attempts to reach an acceptable settlement, however, failed, and the gradual escalation of the Czech-Sudeten -
Ribbentrop/Molotov pack (1939)
The pact provided the opportunity of the Russians to AVOID involvement in the war for 33% of the time. In other words, when WW II began 1 September, 1939 (for some the date is 3 September, 1939 when Britain and France declared war on Germany after they invaded Poland on 1 September, 1939). Operation Barbarossa would begin on 22 June, 1941 (Germans invade the USSR). On 8 May, 1945 the Germans surrender. -
Germany’s invasion of Poland (1939)
It was about the expansion of the German state, they had already annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia and no one had stopped them Germany then attacked Poland thinking no one would step in. -
Germany blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
German's Lightening war, you hit them hard and fast with everything you've got in a coordinated effort. By the time the invaded can figure out what's going on, it's time to surrender. -
Battle of Britain (1940)part 2
Hitler continued to pursue Britain at the time it would seem that he might have been successful but then again maybe not but at the time despite losing more planes than Britain he was actually winning. But the Germans having lost over twice the planes as the British Herman Goering started to focus on radar stations and British airfields and ground operations which was the smarter idea but then suddenly stopped deeming them as unimportant. -
Battle of Britain (1940)
The Battle of Britain was the response from the British Royal Air Force to the pre invasion air war of Hitler’ Germany. The British were outnumbered at the time to about four to one and flew five or six missions a day to meet the Germans in the skies of Britain. Although it was costly it was more costly to the Germans and for an inexplicable reason, Hitler decided to give up his invasion plans and turned his focus on the defeat of Russia at the time. I’m not sure about any great debate as if Hit -
Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (1941)
They could easily see from the trends of relations between the Empire of Japan and the USA that we would continue to interfere with their war in China, and they suspected that we might move to prevent them from carrying out their plans for the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). In short, we were in the way of their plans for empirial expansion. So they decided that they only way to ensure we didn't interfere was to make it impossible for us to do so. That meant destroying the only force which -
Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (1941)part2
could possibly impede Japanese plans; the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. -
Wannsee conference (1942)part2
by Adolf Hitler, for the deportation of the Jewish population of Europe and French North Africa Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia to German-occupied areas in eastern Europe, and the use of the Jews fit for labour on road-building projects, in the course of which they would eventually die according to the text of the Wannsee Protocol, the surviving remnant to be annihilated after completion of the projects. -
battle of Stalingrad (1942)
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad now Volgograd in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 17 July 1942 and 2 February 1943, and is often cited as one of the turning points of the war. The battle was among the bloodiest in the history of warfare, with the upper estimates of combined casualties coming to nearly two million. The battle involved more participants -
battle of Stalingrad (1942)part2
than any other, and was marked by brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. The German offensive to take Stalingrad, the battle inside the city and the Soviet counter offensive which eventually trapped and destroyed the German 6th Army and other Axis forces around the city was the first substantial German land defeat of World War II. -
Wannsee conference (1942)
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews, that Reinhard Heydrich had been appointed as the chief executor of the "Final solution to the Jewish question". In the course of the meeting, Heydrich presented a plan, presumably approved by Adolf Hitler, for the deportation -
Operation Gomorrah (1943)
The Battle of Hamburg codenamed Operation Gomorrah was a series of air raids conducted by the RAF on the city of Hamburg beginning in the end of July 1943. It was at the time the heaviest assault in the history of aerial warfare and was later called the Hiroshima of Germany by British officials. -
D-Day (Normandy invasion -1944)
It also was not the first invasion the allies launched in Europe as most people think. The first was called Operation Torch which was when we invaded North Africa near Morocco. This was in 1942, we then attacked Sicily in 1943, by this time it had the Germans fighting on more fronts and then the massive invasion of Normandy in 1944 caught them way off guard. The allies established a beach head very quickly and liberated Paris about 2 months after the landings. -
liberation of concentration camps (1945)
People were so starved that some died afterward merely from eating more than their bodies could handle. Until the US entered the war, the suicide rate on the electric fences was quite high. Once word came that the Russians were close towards the end of the war, people tried to hang unto life until they could be rescued. A number of people during liberation were not at the camps where they'd been enslaved. They were marched in awful marches from other camps that were closed up, to the remaining -
battle of the bulge (1945)
The Allied armies (British, Canadian, American and French) were lined up on Germany's western frontier, ready to attack as soon as the weather cleared. Hitler wanted to drive through the one weak part of the American lines - the rugged Ardennes sector - and thrust through to capture Antwerp (the main supply port for the Allied armies), cutting off Montgomery's 21st Army Group and then crushing it. -
VE Day (1945)
The unconditional surrender document was signed on the 7th of May, and ratified on the 8th. The allies wanted to avoid the troubles surrounding the WW I armistice by having the German High Command as signators this time. -
liberation of concentration camps (1945)part2
marched in awful marches from other camps that were closed up, to the remaining camps, most dying along the way. Townspeople living near the camps were walked through by liberating soldiers. Those townspeople were close enough to have known what was going on. A few seeing it outright, went home and committed suicide. The liberators took photos because they felt it would be hard for the world to believe how bad it was.