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The Inheritance of War: Ashley Karras: 2009 Netherlands Patton 360° Tony Long: 2009 Finland Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland: Imbi Paju: 2009 United Kingdom The Week We Went to War: Malcolm McKissock, Louise Pirie: 2009 United Kingdom World War II in HD Colour: Robert Powell, Matthew Barrett: 2009 United States WWII in HD: Frederic Lumiere ...
During the Cold War the film was used for training purposes by several NATO armies. [3] Männer gegen Panzer is just one of many training films produced by the Wehrmacht during the war. Other examples are Der deutsche Scharfschütze (The German Sniper) or Männer gegen Männer (Men Against Men), a movie about close combat tactics.
The Battle of the Seelow Heights, fought over four days from 16 until 19 April, was one of the last pitched battles of World War II: almost one million Red Army soldiers and more than 20,000 tanks and artillery pieces were deployed to break through the "Gates to Berlin", which were defended by about 100,000 German soldiers and 1,200 tanks and guns.
The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort. For short films, see the List of World War II short films. For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World ...
The Junkers Ju 87, popularly known as the "Stuka", [b] is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935.The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and served the Axis in World War II from beginning to end (1939–1945).
The Third Reich era of Germany ("Nazi Germany") lasted from Adolf Hitler's assumption of power on 30 January 1933 to Karl Dönitz's surrender at the end of World War II on 8 May 1945.
However, as World War II went on, the OKW found itself exercising an increasing amount of direct command authority over military units, particularly in the west. This meant that by 1942, the authority of the Army High Command (OKH) was limited to the Eastern Front. [8] The Abwehr was the army intelligence organisation from 1921 to 1944.
Wochenschau announcer Harry Giese at the microphone, 1941. Die Deutsche Wochenschau (German for 'The German Weekly Review', lit. ' The German Weekly Look ' or ' The German Weekly Show ') is the title of the unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany from June 1940 until the end of World War II, with the final edition issued on 22 March 1945. [1]