• Germany and the Second World War (German: Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg) is a 12,000-page, 13-volume work published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt...
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    World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two major alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers...
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    invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939, and the subsequent declarations of war on Germany made by Britain and France, but many other prior...
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    during the Second World War took place on the Eastern Front". The Axis forces, led by Nazi Germany, began their advance into the Soviet Union under the codename...
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    differences between the two countries and has not created any new ones." German guarantee of neutrality, 6 October 1939 During World War I, the Dutch government...
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    hypothetical world in which Nazi Germany won the Second World War is a harsher and grimmer place to live in than the real world, where Nazi Germany and the Axis...
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    World War II in Europe began on 1 September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) began bombing Polish cities and the...
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    The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to...
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    During World War I, the German Empire was one of the Central Powers. It began participation in the conflict after the declaration of war against Serbia...
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  • After World War II both West Germany and East Germany were obliged to pay war reparations to the Allied governments, according to the Potsdam Conference...
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  • The Second World War is a 2012 narrative history of World War II by the British historian Antony Beevor. The book starts with the Japanese invasion of...
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    annexation of German territories post Second World War. At the end of World War II, plans were made in the Netherlands to annex German territory as compensation...
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    The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually...
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    The German Wehrmacht used an extensive variety of combat vehicles during World War II. The VK.31 Leichttraktor ("Light tractor") was an experimental German...
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    Klink, Ernst; Müller, Rolf-Dieter; Ueberschär, Gerd R. (1998). Germany and the Second World War. Vol. 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Prange, Gordon William; Goldstein...
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    restored Polish state by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, the German territories lost with the Potsdam Agreement after World War II in Europe on 2...
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    German World War II camouflage patterns formed a family of disruptively patterned military camouflage designs for clothing, used and in the main designed...
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  • The History of the Second World War is the official history of the British contribution to the Second World War and was published by Her Majesty's Stationery...
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    War on Wheels: The Mechanisation of the British Army in the Second World War (2016). Wylie, Neville. Barbed Wire Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, and the...
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    the world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to the end. The Second World...
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  • In World War II, many governments, organizations and individuals collaborated with the Axis powers, "out of conviction, desperation, or under coercion...
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    During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European...
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    potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II. The Soviets invaded...
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    German World War II military casualties are divergent. The wartime military casualty figures compiled by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (the German High...
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    Countries and the northern half of France, and continued into an air war between Germany and Britain that climaxed with the Battle of Britain. The second phase...
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    industry. The Wehrmacht formed the heart of Germany's politico-military power. In the early part of the Second World War, the Wehrmacht employed combined...
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    position during World War II until the five hour-long Japanese invasion of Thailand on 8 December 1941, which led to an armistice and military alliance...
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    during World War II. When the war began on 1 September 1939, the fate of Sweden was unclear. But by a combination of its geopolitical location in the Scandinavian...
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  • The Second World War is a history of the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945, written by Winston Churchill. Churchill labelled the...
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    The Second World is one of the "Three Worlds" formed by the global political landscape of the Cold War, as it grouped together those countries that were...
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