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World War, 1939-1945 --- Operation Barbarossa, 1941 --- Campaigns

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Wehrmacht in der NS-Diktatur: Über 17 Millionen Soldaten. Kaum eine deutsche Familie, die nicht einen Angehörigen bei der Wehrmacht hatte. Was waren sie: Täter, Opfer, ganz "normale" Männer oder willige Vollstrecker? Um ihren Anteil an Krieg und Besatzung präzise und anschaulich zu bestimmen, konzentriert sich die Darstellung von Christian Hartmann auf fünf deutsche Divisionen. Sie hätten unterschiedlicher nicht sein können. Identisch sind dagegen ihr Einsatzraum, die Sowjetunion, und die Zeit, das erste Jahr des "Unternehmens Barbarossa". Gerade die Analyse dieses Mikrokosmos´ bietet die Chance, einer Forderung zu entsprechen, die in der Debatte über die Wehrmacht oft zu hören war - die einer realistischen wie differenzierten Darstellung dieser Armee, ihrer Angehörigen und nicht zuletzt ihrer Funktionen, die sie in Hitlers Kriegen hatte.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Campaigns --- Germany --- Soviet Union --- Armed Forces --- History --- Operation Barbarossa, 1941

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In the wake of the Red Army's signal victory at Stalingrad, which began when its surprise counteroffensive encircled German Sixth Army in Stalingrad region in mid-November 1942 and ended when its forces liquidated beleaguered Sixth Army in early February 1943, the Soviet High Command (Stavka) expanded its counteroffensive into a full-fledged winter offensive which nearly collapsed German defenses in southern Russia. History has recorded the many dramatic triumphs the Red Army achieved during the initial phases of this winter offensive, culminating with its rapid advance deep into the Donbas an

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World War, 1939-1945 --- Operation Barbarossa, 1941 --- Campaigns --- Adam, Wilhelm, --- Adam, Vilʹgelʹm,

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Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the east, and the summer of 1941 is well-known for the German army's unprecedented victories and advances. Yet the German Blitzkrieg depended almost entirely upon the motorised Panzer groups, particularly those of Army Group Centre. Using archival records, in this book David Stahel presents a history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front. Stahel's research provides a fundamental reassessment of Germany's war against the Soviet Union, highlighting the prodigious internal problems of the vital Panzer forces and revealing that their demise in the earliest phase of the war undermined the whole German invasion.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Operation Barbarossa, 1941 --- Campaigns --- Tank warfare. --- Soviet Union --- History --- Arts and Humanities