Germany in WW2

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The British blockade hindered trade between Germany and the United States in 1915.

In World War I, tanks were first used. The were top secret but very large. To get the tanks to the battle field unnoticed, they were put into crates labeled "water tanks". They were nicknamed "Water Tanks" but the name was shortened over time to "Tanks".

After taking control of the NSDAP (Nazi party) Hitler, along with General Ludendorff, tried to stage a putsch at a beer hall in Munich in 1923. The putsch failed and Hitler was arrested along with several other leading nazis.

First of the number 6 Million is a median value of several estimates which reach, as far as I am aware of, from 5.9 to 6.5 million. That said, these estimates are arrived at by taking a variety of sources and combining them. The most complete and accurate source was of course the Nazis them selves, both in written documentation as well as witness accounts during the Nürnberg Trials.

There is for instance the so-called Hoefle-Telegram in which a SS-Sturmbannführer Hoefle from Lublin informs Adolf Eichmann the organizer of "Aktion Reinhardt" (Extermination of Polish Jews) that drung 1942 a total of 1,274,166 in four of the eight Extermination Camps.

There is also the witness account of the commandant of the Camp at Auschwitz, who stated during the Nürnberg Trials: "Another improvement we made over Treblinka was that we built our gas chambers to accommodate 2,000 people at one time, whereas at Treblinka their 10 gas chambers only accommodated 200 people each. [...] The prisoners would be marched by one of the doctors who would make spot decisions as they walked by. Those who were fit for work were sent into the Camp. Others were sent immediately to the extermination plants. Children of tender years were invariably exterminated, since by reason of their youth they were unable to work. [...] We were required to carry out these exterminations in secrecy but of course the foul and nauseating stench from the continuous burning of bodies permeated the entire area and all of the people living in the surrounding communities knew that exterminations were going on at Auschwitz."

Then there is the account of SS Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop, who was in charge of the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto and who documented the transport of 300.000 Jews to the Extermination Camp in Treblinka.

Another source are the records and testimony of Adolf Eichmann himself, who oversaw in large parts the transportation to the camps via trains. Yet another source is the Polish census prior to and after the war, indicating that over 3.5 million Jews were "missing" from that country alone.

The list of sources is virtually endless.

A lot of hub hub is made of the supposed impossibility of murdering 6 million Jews in the time the Nazis had. But if you ONLY take the account of Ausschwitz' commandant, that their Gas Chambers held 2,000 persons and multiply this by 365 days and 2 years you already arrive at the number of just above 1.4 million, which are said to have died in this one of eight camps. And again, this is corroborated by the Hoefle Telegram for the year 1942.

I hope this answers your question.

Yes. Adolf Hitler was the leader and dictator running Germany and started WW2 by ordering the German army to invade Poland.

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Value will depend on condition, originality, markings, and maker (several different firms made the P08 Luger) The differences can make a MAJOR difference in values. Values could range from low hundreds to over $1000. This will really need a hands on assessment from a dealer or collector. Sorry, there are some things we just can't do well on the internet.

He thought that pure Germans, especially Aryans (blond hair blue eyes) were at the top of the scale, with Jews at the bottom, Slavs ranked slightly above Jews, then there were Negroes and other races going up to Nordics, and Aryans. Gypsies were a bit more complicated as they were Aryans, but were considered anti-social, there were other types who were considered inferior because they were differently-abled or criminal, but everyone was considered superior to Jews.

The Luftwaffe was Nazi Germany's airforce . Look to the related link below for more information .

they had to surrender their property

Prior to World War 1 The House of Hapsburg owned Austria-Hungary. They were connected to Germany too. Royal Blood extended to all three countries and England and Russia. After World War 1 Austria was no longer part of Germany. However, Austrians were essentially of Germanic origins. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria. Therefore when he came to rule he chose to annex Austria into Germany's Third Reich.

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Prior to WW1 Austria was an independent country. It was the dominant part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Hapsburg were the ruling family. After the war ended the empire was broken up. Austria, however, remained an independent country until Anschluss in 1938 when Germany annexed Austria. Austria was absorbed into Germany for 2 reasons - it fit into Hitler's view of a united Germanic people and the majority of Austrians wanted the merger. They were strong supporters of Hitler and his vision for the future.

As a child Hitler was close to his mother, who died under the care of a Jewish doctor. Later, when Hitler left home to become an artist, he was rejected from the art school he applied to. The headmaster was Jewish.

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Mostly camps in Poland.

I think you mean "How the Holocaust WAS led". Well, a man named Adolf Hitler who was once in German politics. Later into his life, he became involved with the Nazi's or the "National Socialist German Workers Party". He eventually became the leader of the Nazis. He believed that the Jew, homosexuals, disabled, and anyone that was different than him, was inferior. Therefore, he started to act on his feelings and started to exterminate all of the people who fell under this category. The Nazis followed whatever he said and told them to do, even if they knew it was wrong.

Hope this helped!

Before the outbreak of WWII, Soviet Russia was involved in a border war with Finland. It had entered into a Non-Aggression Pact Nazi Germany which, in the event, proved to have a secret protocol. When Germany attacked Poland from the West, the USSR attacked from the East, and they divided Poland between them. Because of this, Stalin thought Russia immune from Nazi invasion, but on June 22, 1941, Germany attacked Russia. The Soviets then became de facto allies against Hitler. Britain immediately made overtures to Russia, with offers of aid. When America entered the war that December, it completed the alliance that would defeat the Nazis.

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No country is still at war with Germany...

Allied armies were ranging over all of Germany. Hitler was dead, Berlin captured by the Soviets. The country had no oil, its armaments industry was either, destroyed, captured or lacked raw materials. Continuation of the war was futile and would only cause more casualties without altering the outcome in the least. Germany had already fought for much longer than was sensible.

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Ever since the end of the Second World War, the German army has been in a sense of disarray of some kind.

Even after all these years, Germany is still struggling as a result of Hitler's actions.

It is only recently, in 2011-2012, that the German military is beginning to balance itself again.

After the end of the Second World War, military-trained men were scarce. So little in fact that many army platoons and corps had to be disbanded after Germany surrendered. Simply because there were not enough men to fill the ranks.

Things didn't get much better during the Cold War either. The remaining German armies were split between Eastern and Western Germany by the Berlin Wall.

The West side of the wall, controlled by the Allies, were very paranoid of the German army, refusing to co-operate with them, meaning further German corps were disbanded.

On the East side, controlled by the communists, the German army was treated as a "slave army". Again, causing more corps to disband.

After the Cold War, Germany managed to slowly set up 11 divisions and 27 Brigades.

However they have gone through so many changes, re-organisations, merges and disbands since then.

For example, 25th German Airbourne were re-organised and merged into Kommando Spezialkräfte (German Special Commandos, inspired by the British Royal Commandos because the Germans admired their performance in World War 2 and the Cold War).

Nowadays, all corps have been disbanded and the soldiers merged into newer divisions or brigades.

In the coming years (2012, 2013+) Germany plans to disband or merge even more of it's army.

- 13th German Mechanised Infantry is planned to be disbanded.

- Airmobile Operations and Special Operations Division will be merged.

- 1st Airmobile brigade will be disbanded and the units shuffled between different divisions.

- None of the heavy divisions will be disbanded or merged. However there are still secret plans to reshuffle the army some more.

In summary, Germany does have a good army. But since the end of the Second World War it has been the centre of so much shuffling, disbands and merges, that in a war the German Army, at it's current state, would be unprepared.

The German Army would make a good defensive force if Germany came under attack. But if Germany was to invade another country, the military would be plagued with miscoordination and confusion.

The German Army were smashed so hard by the allies during World War 2 and disfigured so much by the Allies and communists during the Cold War, that even today the Army is still recovering.

It could be another five-to-eight years before the German Army is ever effective enough to be an invasion force again.

It would only be those Germans who did not consider themselves as Jewish who would be prosecuted, they would have to prove that they were not Jewish, but lived as gentiles. Jews were generally not prosecuted as they were not given the luxury of a trial

Because they felt bad for the Jews. If there was a genocide, who wouldn't feel bad?