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Military operations of World War II involving Germany

  • Operation CrusaderOperation Crusader began on the 18th of November 1941, and its target did not even know it was happening. Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel, commanding the Axis…
  • Operation QueenOperation Queen began on the 16th of November 1944 with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombing raids of the entire war.
  • Operation KutuzovOperation Kutuzov opened on the 12th of July 1943, named after General Mikhail Kutuzov, the commander credited with driving Napoleon's army out of Russia in…
  • Leningrad–Novgorod offensiveThe Leningrad-Novgorod strategic offensive began on the 14th of January 1944 with a thunderclap of artillery: 220,000 shells poured onto German lines along a…
  • Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensiveSoviet propaganda listed the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk offensive as one of Stalin's ten blows, the string of major offensives that reshaped the Eastern Front in…
  • First Jassy–Kishinev offensiveThe First Jassy-Kishinev offensive is one of the least-documented major operations of the entire Soviet-German War. Named after two cities in the region…
  • Case AntonCase Anton, known in German as Unternehmen Anton, was the military occupation of Vichy France carried out by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in November 1942.
  • Silesian offensivesThe Silesian offensives were not the main event. They were the protection racket for it. In the winter of 1945, the Soviet Red Army had its eyes fixed on…
  • AdlertagOn the first of August 1940, Adolf Hitler issued a written order known as Directive No. 17 to Hermann Göring and the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe.
  • Falaise pocketOn the 25th of July 1944, American forces launched Operation Cobra near Saint-Lô. This offensive shattered German defenses and pushed troops south into open…
  • Operation PanzerfaustOperation Panzerfaust was the name Germany gave to a scheme conceived in October 1944 to prevent Hungary from abandoning the war.
  • Battle of the DnieperThe Battle of the Dnieper began on the 26th of August 1943, when Red Army divisions started moving along a 1,400 kilometer front.
  • Operation UranusOperation Uranus began at 07:20 Moscow time on the 19th of November 1942, when Soviet artillery commanders received a single codeword: "Siren".
  • Vienna offensiveJoseph Stalin reached an agreement with the Western Allies prior to April 1945 concerning the relative postwar political influence of each party in much of…
  • KanalkampfKanalkampf is the German word for Channel Battle, and it names a campaign that unfolded over the English Channel in the summer of 1940 when the Luftwaffe…
  • Operation MarsSoviet forces launched Operation Mars in the early hours of the 25th of November 1942. The goal was to encircle and destroy the German Ninth Army within the…
  • Liberation of ParisOn the night of the 24th of August 1944, a half-track named "Ebro" rolled into the square in front of the Hôtel de Ville and opened fire on a group of German…
  • Operation BagrationOperation Bagration began on the 22nd of June 1944, exactly three years to the day after Germany launched its invasion of the Soviet Union.
  • Dnieper–Carpathian offensiveThe Dnieper-Carpathian offensive, fought from late December 1943 to early May 1944, was one of the largest military operations in the history of the Second…
  • Gran Sasso raidOn the 12th of September 1943, German paratroopers and SS commandos landed gliders on a mountain plateau more than two thousand metres above sea level in…
  • Operation AchseOperation Achse began at 19:50 on the 8th of September 1943, when an aide to General Jodl broadcast a single coded word to every German command across the…
  • Second Jassy–Kishinev offensiveThe Jassy-Kishinev offensive began on the 20th of August 1944, and within two days the entire German-Romanian front line had collapsed.
  • Vistula–Oder offensiveThe Vistula-Oder offensive of January 1945 was the fastest large-scale advance in the history of the Eastern Front. In just over two weeks, the Red Army…