Wehrmacht

The mobilization of funds, people, and material was essential for progression of World War II weapon manufacturing. During the War, the Allied Powers generally overtook the Axis power in the amount of how much weaponry were produced. The Allied Powers political and economic allied influence were directly linked to the growth in production of vast military technology. During the 1930s political forces were able to increase Germany’s manufacturing investment, at the time Germany was one of the…

It is common is common knowledge that during the Second World War that the Hitler and his Nazi army targets and killed millions of Jewish people. However, many fail to realize that the Nazi army did not only their hateful and heinous crimes to Jewish people, but many others as well. When reading the War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front 1941 by Geoffrey P. Megargee explores not only the events of the conflicts between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union but also gives…

The battle of Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle in the World War Two , everything began when Adolf Hitler send the VI German Army of the Wehrmacht leaded by the prestigious General Friedrich Paulus and very intensive support of the Luftwaffe, they were sent to capture the city and keep moving forwards to the South-West Russian oil fields located in the Caucasus, Adolf Hitler though that it was necessary for the fuel of all the german war machine and the invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler´s…

The Phony War was, in short, the period from September 3rd, 1939, to May 10th, 1940, starting with the German Invasion of Poland and the subsequent Anglo-French declarations of war and ending with the German invasion of the low countries and France. During this period, the allies abandoned their promise to Poland, the Soviet Union invaded Finland, and Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. It was a period of silence from the allies in which no material military movements or operations took place.…

bombed the railways that help the Nazis’ intelligent to catch other Jewish people already. Nevertheless, he mention the misunderstanding of why American’s largest corporations continue to trade with Hitler’s Germany until 1942, and mentioned the Wehrmacht could not success its invasion of France without the oil American company sold. Therefore, he spoke more about the Korea war, the Vietnam War, the Kosovo war, and the 1st Gulf war that people still do not learn lesson from the Holocaust. The…

Although Robert is the central interest, the book also has a strong focus on Heinrich, and his son, Joseph. Each of these three men of the Faehmel family is inspired by facets of Böll’s life. For an example, both Robert and Böll were drafted into the Wehrmacht in WWII. While the narrative takes place in one day, flashbacks the various perspectives reveal most of the information that characterizes the conflict. Over the course of this day, Robert struggles to reconnect with Heinrich and Joseph,…

During its first several months of operation, Camp Cooke housed a sizable number of hardcore Nazis from Waffen SS units and other formations. Most of these prisoners, and like-minded troublemakers that arrived later in the camp, were transferred to segregated camps for known Nazi sympathizers. For the most part, the POWs at Cooke were soldiers from infantry, armor, and airborne divisions. Among them were men from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps which had surrendered to American,…

While many attribute the assault on Normandy beach, known to many as “D-Day,” despite the actual meaning of the term, had Germany held Normandy beach they still would have fallen. The Italian front had already been opened, and “Millions of enemy soldiers had been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner by the Red Army before D-Day.”1 The Nazi armies were weakened from various assaults into the USSR, and only a fraction of the allies forces would have been lost. The only effect would be that the war…

As the movie starts out during World war II Wehrmacht Colonel Claus van Stauffenberg is wounded during an air raid in Tunisia, losing his right hand his pinkie finger and his left eye. The man who plays Stauffenberg in the movie is Tom Cruise. Meanwhile as the movie is going on General Treschow try to assassinate Adolf Hitler by smuggling a bomb on Huhrers personal plane. However as he tried to plant the bomb on the plane he later found out the bomb did not go off. General Treschow flies to…

One of the biggest moral conundrums in human history was the creation of the Atomic Bomb. The possibility of these weapons came into fruition soon after the discovery of nuclear fission and the potential energy that can be released. Once the thought of weaponizing this process was considered, many countries wanted to jump on its development and be the first to accomplish this feat, but like all next fields of discovery, had little understanding how to go about the process. Various trials and…