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Military history of Germany during World War II
- French declaration of war on Germany (1939)France declared war on Nazi Germany at 17:00 on the 3rd of September 1939, the moment its ultimatum to Berlin expired. The ultimatum had been issued the…
- Commissar OrderThe Commissar Order had its roots in a speech. On the 30th of March 1941, Adolf Hitler addressed more than 200 senior officers in the Reich Chancellery.
- Hunger PlanThe Hunger Plan was a blueprint for murder by starvation, drafted not by soldiers in the field but by bureaucrats at a conference table in Berlin.
- Anglo-German Naval AgreementPart V of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles imposed severe limitations on Germany's naval forces. The treaty allowed no submarines, no naval aviation, and only…
- German prisoners of war in the Soviet UnionGerman prisoners of war in the Soviet Union represent one of the most contested and tragic chapters of the Second World War.
- End of World War II in EuropeThe end of World War II in Europe came down to a single signature, placed in the early hours of the 7th of May 1945, in a schoolhouse in Reims, France.
- Molotov–Ribbentrop PactThe Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed in Moscow on the 24th of August 1939, and within a week Germany had invaded Poland.
- Anglo-Iraqi WarThe Anglo-Iraqi War began in earnest at 05:00 on the 2nd of May 1941, when 33 aircraft lifted off from RAF Habbaniya into the pre-dawn dark.
- German Army (1935–1945)In the span of just 17 months after Adolf Hitler announced Germany's rearmament programme in 1935, the German Army reached its projected goal of 36 divisions.
- Blockade of Germany (1939–1945)The Blockade of Germany, also known as the Economic War, began the moment Britain and France declared war in September 1939.