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Vor 4 Tagen · Wehrmacht. / 52.1826; 13.4741 ( Maybach II) The Wehrmacht ( German pronunciation: [ˈveːɐ̯maxt] ⓘ, lit. 'defence force') were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air force).
This marked the first major defeat for the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front and shattered the myth of their invincibility. The German forces suffered an estimated 250,000 casualties, including those killed, wounded, or captured, along with significant losses in equipment and morale. The Soviet losses were also heavy, but the exact numbers remain unclear due to the scale of the battles.
Vor 4 Tagen · May 26, 2024. On July 20, 1944, a group of disillusioned German army officers attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a daring plot known as Operation Valkyrie. Led by the charismatic Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the conspirators aimed to seize control of the government, make peace with the Allies ...
Vor 14 Stunden · The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk was the single largest battle in the history of warfare.
Vor einem Tag · Stalingrad has been described as the greatest singular defeat in the history of the German Army. Historian Geoffrey Roberts described it as "the biggest and most traumatic defeat in German military history" and that "the myth of the invincible Wehrmacht was gone forever".
Vor 2 Tagen · This collection contains manuscript materials compiled by the Office of War Information. For the World War II Rumor Project, field representatives collected information from community-based correspondents and sent duplicate or triplicate copies of reports of the correspondents to Dr. Eugene Horowitz at the Bureau of Public Inquiries of the OWI.
Vor 4 Tagen · The German military, the Wehrmacht, obeyed Hitler’s orders to the very end and paved the way for the mass killings in the eastern front after the invasion of the Soviet Union. Only in November 1942, did the Belgium government in exile distance itself clearly from the policy of administrative collaboration with the occupation force, by making clear to which extent local administrators would ...
