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The Nero Decree (German: ... Hitler had issued orders to enact a scorched earth policy upon the Netherlands in late 1944, ... I therefore order: 1) All military ...
July 23, 1944 Reorganization of Army Group North's command structure 60 July 26, 1944 Defensive measures for the Italian Alps: 61 August 24, 1944 Establishment of defensive positions in the West 62 August 29, 1944 Establishment of defenses along the German northern coastal regions 63 September 1, 1944 Order for the West Wall to be on the ...
Adolf Hitler's directives, or Führer directives (Führerbefehle), were instructions and strategic plans issued by Adolf Hitler himself over the course of World War II.The directives covered a wide range of subjects, from detailed direction of the Armed Forces' operations during World War II, to the governance of occupied territories and their populations.
Hitler issued the Nero Decree, ordering the destruction of German infrastructure to prevent their use by Allied forces. Albert Speer and the army chiefs strongly resisted this and conspired to delay the order's implementation. [15] All remaining U-boats in the Baltic Sea were withdrawn and transferred to the west. [27]
In late 1916 the British army set fire to the Romanian oil fields in order to prevent the central powers from capturing them. 800 million litres of oil were burned. [ 56 ] On the Western Front on 24 February 1917, the German army made a strategic scorched-earth withdrawal ( Operation Alberich ) from the Somme battlefield to the prepared ...
Combat gear and carrying equipment was the same as army soldiers. Samurai magazine vest, originally intended for elite army units, was widely used and so were a vast sorting of pouches, magazine-holders, holsters, both official issue (Italian or German) and privately made, carried on Italian M1908 olive-green leather carrying equipment. [16]
A critical shortage of winter clothing developed from a reluctance to accept new items and a failure to order adequate quantities in the mistaken belief that the war would end before they were required. The winter of 1944–1945 in Northwest Europe was unusually cold and wet, and American soldiers were not trained in how to avoid cold injury.
Armed forces during the Battle of Normandy in 1944 D-Day Overlord; Joslen, H. F. (2003) [1960]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-1-84342-474-1. "The Assault Landings in Normandy : Order of Battle British Second Army" (PDF). Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.