Germany In WWII
During WWII Germany was lead by Adolf Hitler. It was one of the most costly wars he would have to fight in his time before he died. He was put into power in 1933 after the death of Hindenburg. He believed that Germany’s economic problems from WWI was all the allies fault. He and his army of Nazis would take over most of Europe during the war. The Armies took over France, Norway, and invaded Yugoslavia.Also Greece some of the European portion of the Soviet Union was taken over too. Their allies were Hungary, Finland, Romania, and Bulgaria.
During the war the soldiers in the armies would commit war crimes. Some of them being the massacre of prisoners, and at the same time the Einsatzgruppen would do the same thing with innocent civilians and Jews. The Einsatzgruppen were helped in the act by other Axis powers and the Wehrmacht, also generals Walther von Reichenau and Erich von Manstein, sometimes known as the Waffen-SS. Then the Nazis woud use a war strategy called Blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg was using tanks and moving to own the enemy before they knew what hit them. The German airforce called the Luftwaffe was helpful in the strategy. They used this because they just did not want to fight in the trenches again. They were successful in this strategy partly because their generals were educated on Blitzkrieg. One of them being Hans Guderian (the panzer general). A panzer was the German version of a tank. He had never lost a battle. But he may have lost the war for Germany because instead of advancing he would choose to crush the Russian armies. Other leaders of Germany were Goering, Goebbels, Himmler,and Speer. Germany was not only known for taking over most of Europe, but the Holocaust also. The Holocaust was a mass killing of Jews led by Hitler.
When the Germans started to have to do more defending than attacking they had lost their armoured vehicles in the battle of Kursk in July 1943, so they were not on the offensive any more. By August 1944, Soviet forces had crossed into parts of eastern Germany.Life for German women was bad mostly because they were excluded. If they might have been payed attention to, they could have freed more men for military service. Most women just stayed home and out of the way, but some contributed in the war effort.
Germany getting defeated began in the battle of Berlin on April 16th. They surrendered on the night of March 2, and Hilter had shot himself and ordered his assistant to burn his body.The total deaths for WWII was around 50 million.
Sources:
-http://germanyinworldwar2.com/
-http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001288.html
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