Erwin Rommel

might. Only because of the enormous superiority in heavy tanks were the British able to bring about a temporary crisis in North Africa, but by March 24 of this year a small combined force of German and Italian units under the command of General [Erwin] Rommel began a counterattack. Agedabia fell on April 2. Benghazi was reached on the 4th. Our combined forces entered Derna on the 8th, Tobruk was encircled on the 11th, and Bardia was occupied on April 12. The achievement of the German Afrika…

“On Friday, September 1st of 1939, Germany invaded Poland after long-term political crises. German invasion began with an air raid on undefended city of Wielun at 4:40am” (Parada). After five weeks of fighting, the Germans were able to defeat the Polish armies by using their military tactic Blitzkrieg. Poland surrendered on October 6, 1939, after fighting the Germans for only a month. Blitzkrieg was a German tactic created by Colonel Guderian Heinz, who studied the mobile warfare tactics from…

Years after World War I left Europe in shambles, the German economy in ruins and its insurmountable debt to be repaid back to France and Great Britain, Americans were feeling the brunt of the war and realizing entering it was a grave mistake. Looking ahead into the future of America and her economy, then President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought out ways to keep America out of another World War. Congress would then pass a law that would later be enforced by the president, it was known as the…

On September 1, 1939 Nazi Germany is invading Poland by using a new German tactic called Blitzkrieg, Poland surrenders on October 6, 1939. Blitzkrieg is a German tactic created by Colonel Heinz Guderian, who studied the mobile warfare tactics from one British officer who was General J.F.C. Fuller ("The Concept of Blitzkrieg"). Fuller was the one who studied the Blitzkrieg tactic first, but the British didn’t really care about this tactic. Only German leaders like Heinz studied this tactic…

The treaty of Versailles reduced the German military force to a mere fragment of what it was at the conclusion of World War I. Leaders in the German military force were looking for a new approach, after all their goal was to defend Germany’s large open borders. Geographically, Germany is sandwiched in between France and Poland, and German military leaders were more concerned with securing the natural resources from Poland’s eastern neighbor Russia. From the German perspective, Germany could…

Spying and Espionage have had a great effect on World War II as a whole. Many countries, specifically Britain, have made great efforts in the counterintelligence department. Britain employed many different spying groups, each with slightly different purposes. The SOE, or Special Operations Executive, formed on July 22, 1940, was a British combination of three distinct spying groups to gather intelligence, scout, and plot against the Axis Powers in Occupied Europe, and help resistance movements,…

Before D-Day, Nazi German forces had experienced significant success and controlled lots of Europe. However, when D-Day took place on June 6, 1944, it marked the beginning of the end for Hitler as he lost his momentum and confidence in the war. D-Day is the largest amphibious invasion in history, and was named Operation Overlord. It involved 5,000 ships, 1,200 planes and almost 160,000 troops who crossed the English Channel on June 6 (IWM), and more than 2 million were in France by August. D-Day…

desert warfare in North Africa between Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps and the Allied forces. Rommel and his vastly outnumbered, but tank-privy soldiers gave the Allies hell for years4. Not even his entire force was German, nor were they mostly composed of tanks, but the times of old guard skeptics had long since passed and the world saw just how much of a game changer the tank truly could be with the right ideas behind it. Of course, some might consider Rommel an outlier, considering that he is…

heard all the legends and been told an overview of Normandy and D-day. Now, here is the story and all the brutally gruesome truths to war, and it all started June 6, 1944, D-day. Hitler was hearing rumors of a invasion from the Allied powers put Erwin Rommel in charge of defenses and put him in charge of finishing the Atlantic Walls. The Allied Powers…

Valkyrie Nazis, Germans, in the minds of many one and the same. For more than six decades the German people have been haunted by the ghost of Adolf Hitler, and scarred by the horrible crimes committed under Nazi rule. However, in the twelve years of the rise and fall of the Third Reich, there were those who struggled to oppose oppression. Brave men and women who risked their lives, suffered unspeakable torture, and shed their blood in the service of conscience (Singer, McQuarrie, & Adler,…