Wehrmacht

the time the Manhattan Project was near to Wayne Edwards Jr. October 29, 2014 Mrs. Dawn Hayden producing a prototype atomic bomb in late 1944, a year of unexpected victories by the Red Army on the eastern front had sapped the ability of the Wehrmacht to resist Allied advances in the West. As the winter went by, it began to seem increasingly likely that Germany would be defeated before the atomic bomb was ready for use. In fact, the final collapse of Nazi Germany occurred two months…

MOBILITY & SURVIVALITY BOS Rommel’s initial recommendations for the refutation of the Atlantic Wall consisted of descriptions of where the Allies would land and why, and how to best use Germany’s limited resources to fight off the intruder. Rommel’s recommendations consisted of massive minefields, foreshore obstacles such as concrete bunkers and underwater devices, and air–landing obstacles. The use of minefields as a means of defense for the Atlantic Wall was influenced by Rommel’s campaign…

World War II was a catastrophic tragedy. What we can cultivate from the war, however, is that the war was fought for peace, for the future, for the people. The casualties and pains of the soldiers were not without a cause. That is the case with Joe Beyrle, an ordinary soldier who found himself on many sides of the war in Thomas Taylor’s Behind Hitler’s Lines. Beyrle’s life can be seen as a microcosm of the entire war, where families, friends, and comrades in the battlefield were all split apart.…

During the last month of World War II, as Allied and Russian forces where closing in on Germany and taking control of German occupied territories, the Nazi 's implemented a still debated final phase to their genocide of the Jews as it also encompassed other ethnic groups, political prisoners, and enemy prisoners of war. They conducted forced marches from outlaying areas, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungry from the last remaining concentration, forced labor, and prisoner of war camps moving…

. . And even if they are still not complete National Socialists, they go to Labor Service and are smoothed out there for another six, seven months . . . And whatever class consciousness or social status might still be left . . . the Wehrmacht [German armed forces] will take care of that.” he so eloquently put into word how he and other Hitler Youth leader brainwashed these children. Hitler Youth and the German Girls were the main way that Nazis used to shape the minds and actions of…

and Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Atlantic Charter was important because it showed the growing solidarity between Anglo-American. It also gave hope to the people of Europe that had lost hope through propaganda. 2. As the German Wehrmacht overwhelmed much of Europe, many politicians, civilians, and soldiers chose to collaborate under German dominance, while others chose to actively resist. Why did so many choose collaboration? What was the risk of resisting (beyond harm to…

sized groups A,B,C,D.“ Einsatzgruppen came directly to the home communities of Jews and massacred them”(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). “Many units were also led by men with investigative or policing experience”(The einsatzgruppen). The Wehrmacht consisted of the Heer, the kriegsmarine, and the luftwaffe. “ The Einsatzgruppen usually operated behind the army, moving…

there were a series of small and usually isolated groups that used nonviolent techniques against the Nazis successfully. These groups include the White Rose and the Rosenstrasse Resistance. 1940-43 -- During World War II, after the invasion of the Wehrmacht, the Danish government adopted a policy of official cooperation (and unofficial obstruction) which they called "negotiation under protest." Embraced by many Danes, the unofficial resistance included slow production, emphatic celebration of…

When Hitler heard of the news he was outraged. He ordered his Göring's Air Force to destroy the capital city Belgrade. The Luftwaffe quickly turned the capital into rubble killing seventy-thousand civilians (The Defeat of Hitler). On April 6, 1941, Wehrmacht sent 29 divisions into Yugoslavia for a quick take over and then took Greece . Which forced British troops to retreat. This took five weeks and lots of wear and tear on the Germany to secure the southern boarder (The Defeat of…

It was just more than one year after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact that the directive for Operation Barbarossa was issued. Signed by Hitler on December 18, 1940, the secret document demanded the Wehrmacht to crush Russia in a rapid campaign, undoing the agreement for spheres of influence throughout Eastern Europe. It remains a point of contention whether Berlin wooed Moscow into benign rapprochement in a series of deceptions stemming from the directive or Stalin, throughout it all,…