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Germany in WW2
The Germans were a member of the Axis forces and the primary belligerent in the European Theater of war.
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Did the 28th division fight in the Battle of the Bulge?
Was the 29th Infantry Division involved in the Battle of the Bulge?
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Which british ships engaged in battle with battleship Bismarck?
No "battleship" was sunk by Bismarck. The "battlecruiser" HMS Hood was sunk by Bismarck on May 24, 1941. Battlecruisers do not have the armor that battleships are built with, being designed for speed and firepower.
Hood, however, was larger than any of the British battleships of World War II, and was one of the most heavily armed British capital ships.
What other groups were victims during the holocaust besides the Jews?
They were mainly treated as the same as the Jews were treated.
List the qualities that the Nazis wanted German art to glorify?
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The strong, the healthy,and the heroic.
What was the strategy for the Germans at Leningrad?
The strategy changed from time to time, thus costing the Germans their most likely opportunities for success in seizing the city. The original Barbarosa plan had Leningrad as the prime objective and many military leaders were in support of that plan (obviously). The reason being that Leningrad was the symbolic birthplace of Soviet communism in 1917. It was also the second largest city in the USSR and a major industrial center (about 10% of Soviet industry was in the greater area). About as important as all of these issues was that its capture would secure two important German objectives. One was that it would eliminate Soviet naval presence in the Baltic, allowing Germany to supply its forces in the north and center much easier, without trouble from partisans, at the same time relieving somewhat the strain on the rail system. Second, it would give direct land access to Finland, an important Axis ally. The loss of Leningrad by the Russians might even lead them to abandon Murmansk and the Petsamo nickle mines, since supplying those areas would be almost impossible. However, due to success in the center the German plan changed and most generals wanted to go towards Moscow, a much more important city for population, transportation, industry and command than Leningrad. In fact, it is likely that that fall of Moscow would lead directly to the fall of Leningrad since the city could not be supplied, even tenuously, once the rail system to Moscow was cut. In the event, Hitler overrode both plans and went for Kiev/Ukraine. Leningrad thus became a secondary target for the rest of the war. This change in strategy meant that Leningrad in 1941, since it did not fall easily, was to be blockaded. This was accomplished by the German forces in the fall of 1941 leading to the starvation of well over a million in the city over the next year or so. For 1942 it was originally planned by the Germans to attack the city again, but this was called off last minute and the forces so accumulated were sent to Stalingrad. Thus, after the initial battles of 1941, Leningrad became a relatively quiet front for the Germans. The Soviet citizens in the city were either evacutated over time, or succumbed to starvation/disease. As such by early 1943 the city was one big military base for the Soviets with well over 500,000 hardened troops dug in. Germany had lost all opportunity to seize the city by this point and the troops involved in the blockade were just waiting for the Soviets to attack. In 1944 the already weakened German blockade was broken and civilians started coming back into the city.
What led adolf Hitler to order German submarines to attack amrican ships?
America's support of the allies led Hitler to attack American ships.
How far is Dresden Germany to Nuremberg?
300 kilometres taking this route:
- Take A3, from Nuremberg, to the CZECH REPUBLIC, where the highway continues as the D5 motorway.
- Continue on D5 to PRAGUE.
What rules did Anne Frank live by?
Her golden rule was "laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!'
That the civil war could have been avoided and why?
Obviously yeahh.
Cause what was the exact point of it.
ummm nothing! yeah that's what i thought.
were at war right now for no apparent reason.
I think, in my opinion, that we don't need war to solve ever flippin little
dispute.
When did the Nazis start making the Jews wear the Yellow Star?
They had to wear the Star of David when outside their homes after a number of decrees in 1941. There were other markers that Jews were required to use before the Yellow Star became the prominent and singular identifying mark of Jews in te Third Reich.
In 1939 how many Jews landed in Havana on the SS St. Louis?
Of the 937 passengers on board, only 30 were allowed to land. Of these, 22 were refugees from Nazi Germany and the other 8 were not. That left 907 desperate refugees on board.
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Why were children killed at concentration camps?
Hitler decided to kill Jewish children so Jewish won't exist any more
Are there any countries that have been invaded by Poland?
no. Hitler invaded many weak countries close to Germany before attacking Poland.
What was the two front allied strategy used to defeat Hitler?
First answer: The Eastern front and Western front. The Eastern front: Germans attacked in Moscow. Soviets counterattacked and forced Germans to retreat.
The Western front: Under General Eisenhower, the Allied forces took on Operation Overlord to invade the Nazi occupied parts of Europe. Operation Overlord was the start of D-Day.
Second Improved answer: There were actually three fronts when you include the Mediterranean/Italian Front. This front began in North Africa, then to Sicily & on to Italy. The Allies fought there way north up the boot of Italy into the southern Alps towards Austria & Germany.
Why did hundertwasser go to nazi youth?
Because he couldn't afford letting his family's cover as catholic being blown so he joined the Hitler youth.
Where did the Britain forces stop Rommel in the summer of 1942?
the british forces stopped the German commander Rommel in northern Africa right before he was going to take over Ethiopia
He didn't, the Holocaust was not instigated by Hitler. It was without a doubt done in his name, but his personal involvement was minimal.
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The above is rather off topic and highly misleading, though it is true that Hitler was not involved in the detailed planning. The driving force behind Nazi antisemitism was Hitler's own frenzied, obsessive and fanatical antisemitism. From the start of World War 2 he was, increasingly, gripped by the bizarre notion that "the Jews" had plunged Germany into war. In reality, he himself had started World War 2 in Europe.
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Now, to answer the question. Systematic mass killings of Jews began in June 1941. However, some Jews had been killed much earlier by the Nazis, starting on a relatively small scale in 1933.
Because of gun crime. The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed after the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. It banned the sale of firearms to people who had been convicted, diagnosed with mental illness or dismissed from the army.
Are you Catholic if you are just baptized?
Baptism is the rite by which someone becomes a member of the Church. You are therefore Catholic when you are baptized, regardless or who baptizes or where it is performed.
Who was Germany's leader in 1914?
*The Chancellor was Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856-1921) who had been appointed in 1909 and held the post till 1917. *The Kaiser was William II (1859=1941, reigned 1888-1918). This was the man with the theatrical handlebar moustache, whom the British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, promised to have hanged as a war criminal. By 1914, however, his power had been drastically curbed. Forced to abdicate in 1918. *Perhaps most powerful of all was the Chief of the General Staff, Helmuth von Molkte, the Younger (1848-1916). Resigned in 1914 after the failure of the Schlieffen Plan. Joncey
What happened at the Munich Confrence and why?
Here is information leading up to the Munich Conference & then how it played out:
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Ø The Austrian Anschluss effectively out-flanks Czechoslovakian defensive fortifications (facing Germany proper) and leaves it vulnerable.
Ø Immediately, Hitler manufactured a political crisis with the new nation of Czechoslovakia over its border areas (in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia), where more than 3 million ethnic Germans lived inside the 'Sudetenland', because of redrawn post-Great War borders. Inside the German speaking area of Czechoslovakia, the Sudeten German Party (SdP), a branch of the German Nazi Party, has become the second largest political party in Czechoslovakia.
Ø Czechoslovakia was allied with France & Britain. However these allies had no military capability to defend Czechoslovakia from a German attack. The only French & British military option was an attack on Germany from the west.
Ø Josef Stalin offered military assistance to Czechoslovakia, however the Soviet Union did not have a border with Czechoslovakia. Soviet troops and supplies would have had to cross through Poland and/or Rumania to reach Czechoslovakia. Neither of those two nations would have allowed that scenario. Additionally, the appearance of Soviet troops (or rumor of it) would have most certainly offered Hitler the perfect provocation to immediately invade Czechoslovakia.
Ø Hitler makes territorial demands and threatens to invade Czechoslovakia over his (false) claims of their 'persecution' of Germans.
Ø The British & French governments, out of fear of a new general European war, asked Czech President Edvard Beneš to concede to Hitler's demands, however he resisted this advice.
Ø 20 May 1938: Czechoslovakia starts a partial military mobilization. Hitler orders planning for an invasion to "smash Czechoslovakia" militarily without "provocation", during "a particularly favorable opportunity" or after "adequate political justification".
Ø 8 June 1938: Hitler signed a secret directive, to the Wehrmacht, for war against Czechoslovakia to begin no later than Saturday, 1 October. The planned invasion was code-named Fall Grün (Case Green).
Ø The Czechoslovak Army is modern, well trained & equipped. It had an excellent system of frontier fortifications and is prepared to fight.
Hitler's Masterpiece Theater & British Panic
Ø The German military (Wehrmacht) is very much alarmed by the possibility of a war with France & Britain and that they are not sufficiently prepared to win it. Unknown until after the war, several high ranking Generals planned a coup to remove Hitler from power if war came then. The coup plotters did not act and were not discovered until after the later 20 July 1944 coup attempt.
Ø However, Hitler was not as reckless as his Generals thought. His actual goal was to get the British to buckle under the pressure and withdraw their support of Czechoslovakia. Then the French, lacking British support, would also drop their support of Czechoslovakia. Then Hitler would invade and conquer all of Czechoslovakia in a short but intense war.
Ø Hitler skillfully used a similar strategy to the 1933 Disarmament Talks with the British & French. He made proposals that would appear reasonable & acceptable to the British, which were unacceptable to the Czechs. One of the tactics employed was an elaborate deception campaign that painted the Czechs as the aggressors, committing horrors against ethnic Germans & unwilling to compromise.
Ø August-September 1938: Hitler increased pressure on Czechoslovakia by making outrageous and false claims of atrocities against Germans, Hungarians, Poles & Slovaks inside Czechoslovakia. This served intentionally to antagonize the Czechs and weaken the moral resolve of the British. It also made the French wary of voicing further public support of the Czechs at a time when the British appeared to be going soft.
Ø September 1938: The British government's efforts to avoid war had the look of obvious panic, as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made three trips to Germany in that month to see Hitler. This successful effort to manipulate the British government & public opinion must have amused Hitler. It also most certainly would have caused Hitler to doubt British resolve a year later, when he threatened war against Poland.
Ø 18 September 1938: Italy's Duce Benito Mussolini declared Italy's support for Germany in the crisis.
Ø 21 September 1938: Czechoslovakia agreed to accept the German demands and communicated this to the British & French.
Ø 22 September 1938: British Prime Minister Chamberlain met with Hitler for the 2nd time that month to announce the Czech concessions. Chamberlain was stunned when Hitler rejected the agreement, and instead announced that he wanted Czechoslovakia to be completely dissolved and its territories redistributed to Germany, Poland, and Hungary, and he further told Chamberlain to take it or leave it.
Later in the meeting, a prearranged staged act by the Germans was performed to put increased pressure on Chamberlain: one of Hitler's aides entered the room to inform Hitler of more Germans being killed in Czechoslovakia, to which Hitler screamed in response "I will avenge every one of them. The Czechs must be destroyed." The meeting ended with Hitler refusing to make any concessions to the Allies' demands.
However, later that evening, Hitler worried that he had gone too far in pressuring Chamberlain, and telephoned Chamberlain at his hotel, to say that he would accept annexing only the Sudetenland, with no designs on other territories, provided that Czechoslovakia began evacuating the German majority territories by 26 September at 8:00am. Chamberlain requested, and Hitler agreed to postpone the deadline to 1 October.
Ø 23 September 1938: In Czechoslovakia, a general mobilization order was issued as they prepared for war.
Ø 24 September 1938: Chamberlain returned to Britain and announced that Hitler demanded the annexation of the Sudetenland without delay. Many British & French leaders became angry as they were willing to confront Hitler's Germany and support Czechoslovakia.
Ø 26 September 1938: Chamberlain sent a hand-delivered personal letter to Hitler declaring that the Allies wanted a peaceful resolution to the Sudeten crisis. Later that day, Hitler in a speech in Berlin, gave Czechoslovakia a deadline of 28 September at 2:00pm to cede the Sudetenland to Germany or face war.
Ø At the request of the British, Mussolini got Hitler to postpone the deadline for 24 hours, so that Hitler & Mussolini could meet, in Munich on 29-30 September, with the British & French leaders to solve the crisis.
The Munich Conference & Betrayal of Czechoslovakia
Ø 29-30 September 1938: Munich Conference/Munich Agreement: Meeting in Munich, without the Czech government, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier publically appeased Hitler. They allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland and incorporate it into the Reich "for the sake of peace." In exchange for this, Hitler gave his word that Germany would make no further territorial claims in Europe.
Ø Czechoslovakia was told by Britain and France that it could either resist Hitler alone or submit to the prescribed annexations. The Czech government, realized the hopelessness of fighting alone, reluctantly agreed. The settlement gave Germany the Sudetenland starting October 10th, and de facto control over the rest of Czechoslovakia as long as Hitler promised to go no further.
Ø 30 September 1938: Upon his return to Britain, Chamberlain delivered his famous "peace for our time" speech to happy crowds:
At Heston Aerodrome:
The settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem, which has now been achieved is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace. This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine. Some of you, perhaps, have already heard what it contains but I would just like to read it to you: ... ' ... We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.'
At
10 Downing Street :My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.
Ø FDR sent a congratulatory telegram to Chamberlain. The British Royal family was also happy with the settlement. Apparently at the time, only a few saw this as an 'appeasement' of Hitler.
Ø French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier, a veteran of the Great War, was much more concerned about Hitler's ultimate goals then the British leaders at the time. On his return to Paris, Daladier, who was expecting a hostile crowd, was instead cheered. He then commented to his aide: "Ah, les cons (the fools!)".
Earlier in April, he had tried to warn the British that Hitler's aim was to secure "a domination of the Continent in comparison with which the ambitions of Napoleon were feeble…Today, it is the turn of Czechoslovakia. Tomorrow, it will be the turn of Poland and Romania. When Germany has obtained the oil and wheat it needs, she will turn on the West. Certainly we must multiply our efforts to avoid war. But that will not be obtained unless Great Britain and France stick together, intervening in Prague for new concessions but declaring at the same time that they will safeguard the independence of Czechoslovakia. If, on the contrary, the Western Powers capitulate again, they will only precipitate the war they wish to avoid."
German Occupation of Sudetenland & Hitler Triumphant Again
Ø Saturday, 1 October 1938: German troops begin the occupation of the Sudetenland, which contained 3.5 million citizens, the border fortifications, 70% of Czechoslovakia's iron & steel manufacturing and 70% of the nation's electrical power output.
Ø German military leaders were elated and marveled at Hitler's skill in handling the British & French, again.
Ø Ironically, Hitler having successfully out-maneuvered the British & French on support for the Czechs, was very angry that his planned invasion to seize all of Czechoslovakia had been thwarted by Chamberlain's last-minute diplomacy.
Ø Josef Stalin was upset by the results of the Munich conference. The Soviets, who had a mutual military assistance treaty with Czechoslovakia, felt betrayed by France, which also had a mutual military assistance treaty with Czechoslovakia. Stalin likely concluded that the French & British had actively colluded with Hitler, causing concern that they might try do the same to the Soviet Union in the future. This may have led Stalin to reorient its foreign policy towards a rapprochement with Germany, which eventually led to the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939.
Ø October-November 1938: Taking advantage of the situation, Poland and Hungary made territorial demands (supported by Germany & Italy) on the Czechs. Poland received Zaolzie, an area with a Polish plurality. Hungary occupied border areas (southern third of Slovakia and southern Carpathian Ruthenia) with Hungarian minorities.
Appeasement of Hitler: Myths & Reality
Ø After the start of the Second World War, and up through the present day, many politicians, leaders and historians would loudly proclaim that the cowardly "appeasement" of Hitler was the primary & obvious reason for emboldening Hitler to embark on a war of conquest.
Ø The reality based on Hitler's writings, meeting & conversations: Hitler needed no encouragement to start the war. By early 1938 he strongly desired an early start to the war(s) of conquest that he had planned for over a decade, and prepared the German military for since August 1934. Hitler believed that Germany's on-going war preparations in 1938 were a few short years ahead of his enemies' preparations and wanted to take immediate action while this window of opportunity was open.
Ø Hitler had successfully removed British & French support for the Czechs and was very angry that his planned invasion of Czechoslovakia had been frustrated by Chamberlain's last-minute diplomacy.
Ø On the other hand, the German public and its military leaders were elated and marveled at Hitler's skill in handling the British & French, while avoiding war. All this served to increase support for Hitler in Germany, and suitably amaze his friends & enemies in Europe.
Ø The British & French were not prepared militarily or psychologically to fight this war in 1938. This appeasement delayed the war by 11 months gaining time for Britain & France to rearm.
Ø As a legacy of the Great War, the French government & people have come to believe that any future war with Germany would end in defeat unless they had strong allies on the continent. The French did not believe that any British ground force would be large enough to help stop a future German attack. They would seek to arrange continental alliances to counter-balance German strength.
Ø Likewise as a result of experiences in the Great War, British leaders hoped to avoid the deployment of a large British army to the continent. The British never considered themselves to be a continental power, and the Great War experience reinforced that belief. Instead they depended on the size & power of the French Army to resist German aggression on the continent. They would provide naval & air support.
Ø Contrary to popular myth, this latest appeasement was popular with the public and many leaders in Britain & France. The British Royal family and the US President Roosevelt also congratulated Prime Minister Chamberlain. A notable exception in Britain was Winston Churchill.
Does Evas dad die in torn thread?
Eva Buchbinder does not die in torn Thread. Rosie who is Dora's sister and Rachel and Eva's friend in the labor camp does die.
Jews don't believe in heaven or hell. They only believe in Sheol, a dumping ground for all dead people, good and bad. It was Jesus who introduced the concept of heaven and hell to the world. Many people use the term heaven and hell, but, it is really a Christian idea, not a Jewish one. Jesus was a reform Jew, but, the Jews in general have rejected Jesus and his teachings.
