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2 giorni fa · There was also a secret trial before a military tribunal of a group of Red Army commanders, including Mikhail Tukhachevsky, in June 1937. It is now known that the confessions were given only after great psychological pressure and torture had been applied to the defendants.
- 1936–1938
- 700,000 to 1.2 million, (higher estimates overlap with at least 116,000 deaths in the Gulag system)
1 giorno fa · In the Soviet Union, speaking to his generals in December 1940, Stalin mentioned Hitler's references to an attack on the Soviet Union in Mein Kampf and Hitler's belief that the Red Army would need four years to ready itself.
- 22 June 1941 – 7 January 1942, (6 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
- Axis captured approximately 600,000 square kilometres of Soviet territory but failed to reach the A-A line
- Soviet Victory, Axis operational failure
2 giorni fa · Hitler's notorious Commissar Order called for Soviet political commissars, who were responsible for ensuring that Red Army units remained politically reliable, to be summarily shot when identified amongst captured troops.
4 giorni fa · The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers ( Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany ). It began with a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land ...
5 giorni fa · Drone finds secret entrance in German WW2 underground tunnel. Rumors has it that even Hitler himself took interest in this location.. What is up there ? ...more.
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3 giorni fa · Hitler's objectives were to eliminate the Soviet Union as a military power, exterminate Communism, generate Lebensraum ("living space") by dispossessing the native population, and guarantee access to the strategic resources needed to defeat Germany's remaining rivals.
1 giorno fa · While on 3 February 1943, the New York Times heralded the destruction of "the flower of Adolf Hitler's army". The next day, on 4 February, French newspaper, La Semaine, headlined it as "the greatest battle of all time".
