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Germany 1941-1942: Beginning of the End

In this video, we trace the turning points that marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich—from the invasion of the Soviet Union and the harsh Russian winter to the growing strength of the ...
World War II," delve into the harrowing winter of 1941 as Hitler's Wehrmacht launches Operation Typhoon, the audacious and brutal assault on Moscow. Witness the relentless German advance, driven by ...
SUCH knowledge of my own countrymen as I have acquired while reaching a ripe middle age convinces me that one of the most cogent reasons against the imposition of harsh measures of repression on the ...
Multiple explosions were reported over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early Friday morning. Ukraine's foreign minister compared the attack to Nazi Germany's assault on the city in 1941. The attack came ...
In this successful history, journalist Nagorski isolates 1941 as a turning point in world history, persuasively arguing it was the year Adolf Hitler’s political and military decisions ensured the ...
Plot to murder Hitler -- "Unconditional surrender" -- "Fifty thousand Germans must be shot!" -- "On the back of an envelope" -- Terrible silence -- "One hundred ...
Germany and Italy formally joined Japan in war against the United States today and Adolf Hitler shouted that the Axis would "always strike the first blow." Hitler and Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini ...
Martin Lowenberg became a Jewish man, a bar mitzvah, 10 months before the Jews of Fulda were deported from Germany to Latvia, most of them to their deaths. The reading at his ceremony, from the ...