Germany's main enemy was France and it fell when Manstein told Guderian to attack past the Maginot Line. Fall Gelb was a key element of the invasion of France in 1940. 17. What Soviet operation, part of the larger Operation Little Saturn, involved the encirclement of the German 6th Army ...
To be fair to Heinz Schmidt, he was born in South Africa to German parents, and at a very young age he moved around Africa with his family, classified as ‘volkdeutsche’ spending more of his formative years and completing his university education in Germany itself, becoming a dual national...
Robert Downey Jr., and many others. The historical context is terrific–the war against Nazi Germany, which actually started the war ahead of the Allies in terms of basic research towards the Bomb, the revolution in physics started by Einstein and challenged by the likes of Niels Bohr, and ...
Riefenstahl won several awards, not only in Germany but also in the United States, France, Sweden, and other countries. The film was popular in the Third Reich and elsewhere, and has continued to influence movies, documentaries, and commercials to this day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I have visited WW2, and resistance sites in Denmark, Holland, France and Germany and this experience tops them all, with the greater lesson being the impact that was made upon the local population. If you think you're even slightly interested in the subje...
The Panzer IV was Germany’s most-produced tank of WWII; it first entered service in 1940 and was still built right up until the end of the conflict. Other countries' militaries used it well into the 1960s. The Panzer IV did, however, undergo significant changes in its role and specifica...
The day the 351st arrived in England, Nazi radio propagandist William Joyce, aka “Lord Haw Haw,” broadcast from Berlin the following: “Welcome to England, Hatcher’s Chickens. Among whom is famous American cinema star, Clark Gable. We’ll be seeing you soon in Germany, Clark. You will...
Carlton Hudson believes in guardian angels. If he’s right, his worked overtime during World War II. And it’s still going strong. Hudson, a longtime Central resident who turned 100 on Jan. 26, didn’t get through the war unscathed. Shot down over Germany, he was wounded by rifle fire...
continued to maneuver at dangerously low altitudes over the hospital area, a real cause for some concern due to the negative effect it had on battle exhausted and NP patients, and the danger of accidental crashes and subsequent injury to patients and personnel alike. Daily movies and weekly USO...
We hated to leave the nuns, the people and the town. But we knew as we drove deeper into Germany that we were hastening the day that we might return to Vaals in peacetime… Germany: Kempen: We moved out through Aachen towards the Roer River. The river which was scarcely wider than a...