Happy April Fool's Day!! We continued on info for the second part of the WWII test.
Battle of Moscow
- 280,000 - 400,000 German casualties
- 650,000 - 1,280,000 Soviet causalties
- Hitler dismissed his commander-in-chief in December 1941 and took personal charge of the Wehrmacht (German Army)
- Hitler took control and decided to make all military decisions from then on
- Many experienced German officers began to go against him
- Hitler sorrouned himself with staff officers with little or no recent combat experience
The Siege of Leningrad
- Started on September 8, 1941
- the last land connection to the city was cut off by Germany
- there was 872 days of citizens being deprived of resources
- ther were many reports of cannibalism appeared in the witer
- birds, rats, and pets were eaten by survivors
- hungry gangs attacked and ate defenseless people
- Leningrad police even formed a special unit to combat cannibalism
- a Russian counter-offensive at Stalingrad drained necessary resources the Germans needed to continue the blockade and eventually it failed
- Germans never took over Leningrad but it was one of the worst conflict Russia faced
- 642,000 civilians were killed during the seige
- J400,000 died during evacuation
Battle in Africa and Italy
- Erwin Rommel - the desert fox out witted us many times, was in charge of Africa core
- Bernard Montgomery - Monty
- George Patton was a US general in charge in Africa. He was tough on his troops.
D-Day Invasion(operation overlord)
- June 6 1944 invaded france
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