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A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
Lorenz (navigation) – pre-war blind-landing aid used at many airports. Most German bombers had the radio equipment needed to use it. "Los!" – "Go!" or "Away!" Also the U-boat command to fire a torpedo ("Fire!") Luchs – "lynx"; nickname given to the Model L version of the Panzer II. Leuchtkugel – signal flare. Luftangriff – air attack ...
Italian soldiers taken prisoner by the Allies during Operation Compass (1941). Most prisoners, after being captured, spent the war in the prisoner of war camps.In the early phases of the war, following German occupation of much of Europe, Germany also found itself unprepared for the number of POWs it held.
Vernichtungskrieg – War of extermination against Jews and Marxists, the war between Nazi Germany and the USSR. Vernichtungslager – death camps. This word was never used by the Nazis themselves. Volk – People, folk-community, nation, or ethnic group. It is extremely difficult to convey the full meaning of this word in English.
"The March" refers to a series of forced marches during the final stages of the Second World War in Europe that were enforced on prisoners of war under German control, as Germans were falling back and tried to prevent the recapture of the POWs by the Allies (primarily, the Soviets); [38]: 40–42 many POWs, estimated at thousands, died during ...
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.
The list of Axis named operations in the European Theatre represents those military operations that received a codename, predominantly from the Wehrmacht commands. It does not represent all operations that were carried out by the Axis powers, or their allies in the European Theatre during the Second World War.
German militarism was a broad cultural and social phenomenon between 1815 and 1945, which developed out of the creation of standing armies in the 18th century. The numerical increase of militaristic structures in the Holy Roman Empire led to an increasing influence of military culture deep into civilian life.