Beginning of the End: Germany 1941-1942 | Animated History

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Beevor, Antony (1994). Crete:The Battle and the Resistance Westview Press. pg 231
Beevor, Antony (1998). Stalingrad. New York: Viking. Pg 41-42
Beevor, Antony (2012). The Second World War. New York: Back Bay Books. Pg 158.
Browning, Christopher (2004). The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 - March 1942. Lincoln and Jerusalem: University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem.
Glantz, David (2011). Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk, Volume 2. Birmingham: Helion & Company
Glantz, David M. (2003). Before Stalingrad : Barbarossa - Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud: Tempus. Pg 31
Glantz, David (2001). The Soviet-German War 1941-1945: Myths and Realities: A Survey Essay. Pg 9.
Hammond, Bryn. El Alamein: The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second World War. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Hooker, Richard D. Jr. (Spring 1999). "'The World Will Hold Its Breath': Reinterpreting Operation Barbarossa". Parameters. United States Army War College: Pg 150-164
Jackson, Ashley (2006). The British Empire and the Second World War. London & New York: pg 106
Riefenstahl, Leni (1987). Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir. New York: Picador. Pg 295.
Schreiber, Gerhard; Stegemann, Bernd; Vogel, Detlef (1995). Germany and the Second World War: The Mediterranean, South-east Europe, and North Africa, 1939-1941. Vol. III. London: Oxford University Press. Pg 530-531.
Tomasevich, Jozo. War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945. Stanford University Press, 1975.
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@@austinnichols8671 serbian and the macedonian front with Greece joining the war in 1917

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??? What do you mean???

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The Commando Supremo didn’t cover itself in glory

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While the Nazi regime maintained a high level of meritocracy in the military, the Fascist regime produced an officer corps that was mostly made of career officers who were more amicable to the regime and who were better at handling the politics of the military. It had been a problem since the unification really.

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When the end was nigh, the germans didnt use proper winter gear. I feel like some people took a joke too seriously

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Or proper winter bullets

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They ran out of oil, which only happened because the tommy (SAS) defeated the wehrmacht back and forth around African oil fields. No oil, no tanks

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Their logistics also collasped even more during the winter

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Or Hitler kicks a door only to find more doors to kick and eventually hurts his leg at Stalingrad

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Hmm, maybe a weaponized laser gun with a mirror at the barrel curve?

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13:00 a video of the Nuremberg trials would be fascinating.

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Pls do years 1943-1944-1945. Also good video and keep work like this!

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