Adolf Hitler was the Chancellor and Führer (meaning leader or guide in German) of Nazi Germany. Hitler was in power from 1933 to 1945 as leader of the Nazi (or NSDAP) party which stood for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. This translates to German Nationalist and Socialist Party in English. Hitler’s reign in Germany ended when he committed suicide in 1945.
Hitler was very dominant within Nazi Germany and he kept this control by using terror. Anyone who said anything against Hitler or that upset him would be either shot or sent to a concentration camp where they would almost certainly die. Hitler had no sympathy for people like these and this would make other civilians scared and commit a fewer number of crimes. This way the
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The Russians were using the civil population to help with things that they would have needed more soldiers to do to avoid decreasing the number of men fighting at one time. 2 million Russians escaped Moscow.
On the other hand, Operation Barbarossa was also a success. The main reason why it was successful was because Stalin did not know that the Germans were planning to invade Russia. Stalin had received warnings from British Intelligence but he ignored them thinking that they were threats. Stalin also didn’t trust his own army and he killed many of his generals thinking that they were spies. In doing this he weakened his own army which advantaged the Germans.
Hitler’s victories in the West had gone much swifter than initially planned. These victories included (in consecutive order): Saar land and Sudeten Land (1938), rest of Czechoslovakia (1939), France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark (all 1940). This meant that he could use these troops on the Eastern Front to increase in strength and number.
Hitler signed a pact with Italy and Japan to become allies but the Italian dictator Mussolini couldn’t be
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The successful Blitzkrieg tactics could not be used in Britain as tanks (or Panzers) could not cross the channel. Because of this, they had to come up with an alternative way to launch an attack on Britain. It was not as easy as invading France or Belgium.
The fighter planes that Germany had very short flight times and were not designed for long-distance journeys such as crossing the Channel. This means that as soon as they get to England, their fuel will have run out.
The Germans only have barges from the River Rye which are not designed for the sea and bad weather. This means that if it was choppy, the water would swamp the smaller boats. Even if they didn’t sink immediately, the RAF would probably bomb them. Britain had 157 more warships than Germany.
Germany would have to do the following if they wanted to apply Blitzkrieg tactics on Britain: destroy RAF, rebuild German Navy, keep Royal Navy out of the Channel, destroy Coastal Defences, clear mines, capture a port using Paratroops, create landing craft and barges and sustain good weather. It is almost impossible to do all of this and it would just be easier to come up with another way to
...onger. But a generation later, the game was on once again; the war aims were much the same. Germany felt it must defend its way of life and stand up for progress. Britain wanted to defend the status quo but it used the excuse of the invasion of another country as the immediate pretext for entry: first Belgium, later Poland. In both world wars, Germany was the innovator, morally and technologically. Britain and France were fighting previous wars while Germany led the way in technology, techniques and tactics.
Why the Major Cities of Britain were Bombed by the Germans in 1940 and 1941
In the Belgian town of Dunkirk, British Naval forces rescued the bulk of the army along with some French and Belgian units. Due to the French surrendering, Germans attacked North Africa to support the failed Italian efforts. Under the leadership of General Erwin Rommel, German forces pushed eastward to take Egypt until the British at the Battle of El Alamain halted their advance. U-Boats, which were kind of like submarines, were the Germans' main defense against Britain for naval battle. Adolf Hitler, the German leader planned all these offensives in his goal to rule the world.
”Battle of Britain, in World War II, a series of air battles between Great Britain and Germany, fought over Britain from Aug. to Oct., 1940. As a prelude to a planned invasion of England, the German Luftwaffe attacked British coastal defenses, radar stations, and shipping. On Aug. 24 the attack was shifted inland to Royal Air Force installations and aircraft factories in an effort to gain control of the air over S England. Failing to destroy the RAF, the Germans began (Sept. 7) The night bombing, or blitz, of London. Heavy night bombings of English cities continued into October, when the attack was shifted back to coastal installations. The Germans gradually gave up hope of invading England, and the battle tapered off by the end of October. Though heavily outnumbered, the RAF put up a gallant defense; radar, used for the first time in battle by Britain, played an important role. The Germans lost some 2,300 aircraft; the RAF 900. The Battle of Britain was the first major failure of the Germans in World War II, and it thwarted Hitler's plan to force Britain to accept peace or face invasion” (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia).
...w by pursuing what they believed to be the “best-case scenario.” Hitler probably could have been stopped if the British had stood up to him in the Rhineland Crisis. Because it was so early in his pursuit for continental domination, he did not yet have the mainstream support that he would by the actual beginning of the war. If he had failed Germany early, perhaps he might have been overthrown. However, all of the agreements and dilemmas described were much too overwhelming for the British government to handle alone, and the optimistic results that the British hoped for would never transpire. After Hitler was able to manipulate the British into signing the Anglo-German Naval Pact, he knew that each nation and League could be dealt with separately in order to achieve his goals. It was during the Rhineland Crisis that the precedence for World War II was set.
The Reasons Why the Major Cities of Britain Were Bombed by the Germans in 1940-1
Although, World War II lasted 6 years, the Battle of the Bulge with its planning, skills, and landings marked the “beginning of the end.” The Battle of the Bulge started on December 16, 1944 and was a last ditch attempt started by Adolf Hitler to separate Britain, France, and America into two. Hitler was sure that the Allies- Britain, France, and America- were not strong enough for the German forces and that he could disperse their coalition and cut off the Allies. Adolf’s plan was to launch an immense attack using three armies. He wanted to abolish, or take a huge port, of Ahtwerp which is where the Allies got a large portion of their supplies. While his plan was a very illogical plan, he believed that it would work. Germany had been in a retreat since D-Day and was looking for some way or somehow to defeat to Allies (Trueman),
When Hitler’s panzer divisions pushed towards Stalingrad, Stalin claimed that an invasion across the English Channel would force Hitler to distract troops from the Soviet front (Murray). Churchill and Roosevelt did not think the Allies had enough troops to engage in an attack on European soil. Instead, they launched Operati...
The British Government knew that they could not allow these troops to be massacred as it would leave South-East England within the grasp of a German invasion. So on May 27th 1940 Operation Dynamo was put into action to evacuate the troops through Royal and Merchant Navy vessels.
Support for the Nazi party was due to the growing belief that it was a
On May 10, 1940, the Wehrmacht (German army) rapidly conquered Belgium and the Netherlands with their lightning-speed blitzkrieg tactics while three Panzer corps invaded France through the Ardennes Forest rather than their heavily fortified Maginot Line. German forces swept through France in days and confined the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), three French armies, and the remainder of the Belgian army along the English Channel at northern France. In the wake of this military disaster, a plan was immediately drawn up - Operation Dynamo - with the lofty objective of withdrawing all Allied forces from Dunkirk across the English Channel lest they be captured or killed.
In the spring of 1940 Europe was enveloped in war. The German military machine had already conquered Poland, Denmark, and Norway. However, not content with northern and eastern expansion, Adolf Hitler wanted to control the western countries in Europe. Hitler had long been obsessed with attacking and controlling France. After their defeat in World War I, the German people, government, and military were humiliated by the enormous post war sanctions leveraged against them from the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler wanted to defeat and humiliate the French people in the same way that his country had to experience. For him, revenge was necessary. The German plan was to swing into France using a new tactic know as Blitzkrieg or “Lightning War”. Blitzkrieg used speed and surprise along with highly concentrated tank corps, supported by mechanized infantry and airplanes.
The Soviet forces implementing their "Prague Offensive", as well as "Operation Bagration" which was to push into Eastern Poland, with remaining Polish forces and Soviets alike was a major rupture in the German war machine's effectiveness, resulting in about a quarter of the German forces in the Eastern front being either killed or captured, including officers. The German army could not replace the numbers and experience that they had lost in the Soviet offensives. The Western Allies having been able to push the Germans out of France, thus liberating the country, and pushing into the Ardennes forest, unfortunately for the Allies, "Operation Market Garden" an offensive hoped to have been what was needed to put a spearhead into the German line had failed. But with the mismanagement of supplies and men, the
The German strategy was to divide and conquer: by staging raids into the North Sea and bombarding the English coast, they hoped to lure out small British squadrons and pickets which could then be attacked and destroyed by superior forces or submarines. What they intended was to send out submarines of the British Naval Port, then send out a fast battle cruiser force to attack the British coast, if all went well the British response to the attacking force would be weakened by the submarine ambush and hoped the British destroyers would be incapable to operate for anti-submarine operations.
Clearly throughout this paper as I talk about all of the things the Allies did to the Germans you can infer that they Allies did in fact win, which they did. Hitler thought this surprise attack would be a great victory for the Germans. Hitler’s plan was to cut off their supplies, but things didn’t go anywhere close to how he planned them. In the beginning the surprise attack did work on the Allies, they kept fighting and eventually won this battle. Germany was severely weakened by the fact they didn’t have enough fuel and the fact the Allies had killed many of their experienced soldiers. Throughout this hard battle the Allies won and it was a great victory for them.