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Did Nazi propaganda really claim that England imposed the war on Germany?
There's a photo circulating online (examples 1,2) allegedly of a congress of the National Socialist Party of Germany (i.e. a Nazi congress) that took place at the Sportpalast in Berlin in late 1942 or ...
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How did Admiral King survive his early mistakes in World War II?
In all fairness, Admiral Ernest J. King made important contributions to World War II as the U.S. naval Commander in Chief, most notably in the Pacific theater.
He had a number of major weaknesses, ...
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How did Germany survive on the Eastern Front of WW2 for so long?
By the time that 1942 began, Soviet reinforcements had arrived in the Moscow sector, and the Soviets outnumbered the Germans by nearly 2 to 1 in frontline strength, the majority of them decently ...
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What were the capabilities of U-boats during the battle of the Atlantic?
I'm learning about the capabilities of German u-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic and their improvements during the war, in the most general sense.
I researched three types of U-boat, the VIIA, ...
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Did Hitler have any plans in regards to the troops he had stationed in Norway throughout the war?
Throughout WW2 Germany had 400,000 troops stationed in Norway essentially doing occupation duty and fighting of partisans after Norway's surrender.
Now as the war started to turn against the Germans ...
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How did the "weather conditions" for an invasion at Pas de Calais compare to those of Normandy?
During World War II, Normandy was chosen as the northern France invasion site over the Pas de Calais.
This was in spite of the fact that "weather" made a landing at Normandy a very iffy ...
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Was the Volga really Russia's last line of defense before the Urals?
That was a claim made by General Vasily Chuikov in "The Battle For Stalingrad." He even went so far as to postulate a German column heading for Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), toward the Chinese border. That ...
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Why did Fall Blau start at Voronezh instead of further south?
The main objectives of Fall Blau, the German 1942 summer offensive, were the Volga River, to cut off Soviet oil supplies from further south, and the Caucasus oil fields themselves, for German use.
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Did the Germans consider an amphibious landing for Fall Blau?
In the operation Fall Blau (Case Blue) the German Wehrmacht advanced towards the Don river, and then sent Army Group A into the Caucasus region to take the oil fields in the region.
They managed to ...
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Did a German plane really land in Moscow in May 1941?
I just read this small Wikipedia page about a 1941 Purge of the Red Army. There is something rather shocking:
In May, a German Junkers Ju 52 landed in Moscow, undetected by the ADF beforehand, ...
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Why didn't Wehrmacht soldiers refuse to kill civilians?
Why didn't Wehrmacht Soldiers refuse to execute civilians (and Kids) when it was clear that they did nothing wrong?
I know that they were probably told they're partisans or Jews or something along ...
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Did Poland help Germany take Czechoslavakia before Germany invaded Poland?
In March of 1939, "with Germany's permission" (WW2 for dummies), Poland invaded Czechoslovakia while Germany was annexing the Sudetenland per the Munich agreement. Only 6 months later, in September, ...
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Is there documentary evidence that Stalin intended/prepared to fight Germany after the Nazi-Soviet pact?
It's often said the peace was only both sides buying time. There's ample evidence Hitler always intended to break the pact. Did Stalin?
Suvorov's thesis that Stalin was preparing for an offensive ...
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How accurate is Karl Heinz Frieser when he said that the blitzkrieg was a myth?
In his book, The Blitzkrieg Legend (original title Blitzkrieg-Legende, der Westfeldzug 1940), Karl Heinz Frieser wrote that during the campaign in France, blitzkrieg was just improvised, and that even ...
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Why didn't Germany blockade the Strait of Gibraltar during WW2?
The Strait of Gibraltar, at its narrowest point, is about 14 km wide. Why didn't Germany blockade it during WW2?
It seems to me that only a handful of submarines and destroyers could do the job. Wasn'...
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Did German win any victories between Normandy and Bulge?
In regards to World War II, I always hear about the great number of Allied victories won between the Battle of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. Very little is spoken of German victories.
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Why were 40,000 German troops left in Prague instead of pulled back to defend Berlin?
In the wikipedia article for the 1945 Prague Uprising implies that there were still a large number of German troops stationed in Czechoslovakia; at least 40,000 of them, including crack SS armored ...
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Did the Germans lose the U-Boat war in World war II because of a shortage of quality, rather than quantity?
In the "Battle of the Atlantic" the Germans lost almost 800 of their 1200 submarines (nearly two-thirds) sinking 3,500 Allied merchant ships and 175 warships.
Some 30% these "kills," were accounted ...
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What was the role of the Soviet Navy during WWII?
Most books about WWII speak of the naval battles of Allied and Axis powers during the war, but none about the Soviet Navy. The Soviets had an active fleet at the time - why did it not engage the ...
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What was the German perspective on Stalingrad?
I'm quite interested in Stalingrad and have started reading a bit regarding the battle itself and have seen that weather had played quite a significant factor in halting the German advance. (Reading ...
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Did Hitler make the right decision for Germany when he called off Operation Zitadelle (during the Battle of Kursk)?
On the night of 9/10 July, the Western Allies mounted an amphibious
invasion of Sicily. Three days later, Hitler summoned Günther von
Kluge and Erich von Manstein to his Wolfsschanze headquarters ...
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How did Nazi Germany finance itself during WW2?
How did Nazi Germany finance itself during the war? They produced a large amount of war material during 1939-1945, but how was this production financed? What were Germany's revenue streams that ...
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