EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN HINDENBURG AND HITLER CONCERNING THE STATUS OF JEWS WHO SERVED IN THE GERMAN ARMYELSEVIERDocuments on the Holocaust
The Allied victory at the Somme—despite its horrific costs—inflicted serious damage on German positions in France, spurring the Germans to strategically retreat to theHindenburg Linein March 1917 rather than continue battling over the same land that spring. ...
Wilhelm was promoted later that year, in September 1916, to become head of the newly-created 'Army Group Crown Prince', which comprised the three armies occupying the central section of the German line.In 1917 the Crown Prince tried to persuade the then-Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg (shortly to...
industrialists, created what was effectively a military-industrial dictatorship, the Third Supreme Command, largely relegating the Kaiser,Wilhelm II, to a peripheral role. Ludendorff was the chief engineer behind the management of the German war effort during this time, with Hindenburg his pliant ...
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