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The bombing of Hamburg during 1943. 18 January – World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad. 18 January – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins. 27 January – World War II: 64 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven is the target).
First book edition of the Stroop Report from 1948 by Stanisław Piotrowski The Report was a 125-page typed document, bound in black pebble leather, with 53 photographs. It consisted of the following sections: Summary, with title page; list of soldiers/Police killed and wounded; the list of combat units involved, and
Listen, Germany! is a published collection of letters by exiled German author Thomas Mann to his former country during World War II. [1] Originally published in 1943 by Alfred A. Knopf Inc., the collection contains twenty-five letters that were read over long and medium wave radio broadcasts by the BBC German Service into Nazi Germany, as part of the Allied propaganda effort, from October 1940 ...
[2]), the book was generally well received (e.g. ″one of the most important books on Nazi Germany that has appeared in recent years″, [3] "This is not just another book about Nazi Germany. It is the most significant attempt yet made at scholarly and painstaking analysis, based almost exclusively upon German sources, of the background ...
Nazi Germany believed that France was meant to be punished due to the French–German enmity that caused danger to the German nation through historical French beligerence since the French–Habsburg rivalry that culminated in the German humiliation of World War I (alongside another national traumas, like the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic ...
A chart depicting the Nuremberg Laws that were enacted in 1935. From 1933 to 1945, the Nazi regime ruled Germany and, at times, controlled almost all of Europe. During this time, Nazi Germany shifted from the post-World War I society which characterized the Weimar Republic and introduced an ideology of "biological racism" into the country's legal and justicial systems. [1]
The main body of the book effectively ends when Speer, by this point having joined Karl Dönitz's government seated in Schleswig-Holstein, receives news of Hitler's death. This is followed by an epilogue dealing with the end of the war in Europe and the resulting Nuremberg trials , in which Speer was sentenced to a 20-year prison term for his ...
ID-card of a member of the Committee "Free Germany" for the West [de; fr]; on the card, the organisation is called the "representative" of the NKFD in German-occupied France. The NKFD was a part of a broader Movement for a Free Germany . Although this movement began before the creation of the NKFD, the latter profoundly affected the movement.