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The Volkssturm (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksʃtʊʁm]; "people's storm") [1] [2] was a levée en masse national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II. It was set up by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler and established on 25 September 1944. [ 3 ]
The Sportpalast speech (German: Sportpalastrede) or Total War speech was a speech delivered by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large, carefully selected audience on 18 February 1943, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies.
[27] [28] In 1935 she made Day of Freedom: Our Armed Forces (Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht) about the German Army, [28] filmed because the army felt it was not represented well enough in Triumph of the Will. [29] Riefenstahl, who lived until 2003, would face lifelong controversy because of her films and closeness to the regime. [30]
By 21 December 1944, the German momentum during the Battle of the Bulge had begun to dissipate, and it was evident that the operation was on the brink of failure. It was believed that an attack against the United States Seventh Army further south, which had extended its lines and taken on a defensive posture to cover the area vacated by the United States Third Army (which turned north to ...
The offensive halted on 7 January 1942, after having pushed the German armies back 100–250 km (62–155 mi) from Moscow. [320] The Wehrmacht had lost the Battle for Moscow, and the invasion had cost the German Army over 830,000 men.
Former President Donald Trump once asked his White House chief of staff John Kelly why his generals couldn't be more like Adolf Hitler's, according to "The Divider: Trump in the White House," an ...
Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932–1945: The Chronicle of a Dictatorship is a 3,400-page book series edited by Max Domarus presenting the day-to-day activities of Adolf Hitler between 1932 and 1945, along with the text of significant speeches.
The German Foreign Office also poked at Trump for another comment he made during the debate. ... The United States exported over 200 million cubic feet of liquid natural gas to Germany last year ...