Therefore, German bombers were smaller than their British equivalents, and Germany never developed a fully successful four engined heavy bomber equivalent to the Lancaster or B, with only the similarly sized Heinkel He A placed into production and made operational for such duties with the Luftwaffe in the later war years. The main concentration of German raids on British cities was from 7 September until 10 May in the most famous air battle of all time, known as the Battle of Britain.
This proved the first major turning point of the War. After that most of the strength of the Luftwaffe was diverted to the war against the Soviet Union leaving German cities vulnerable to British and later American air bombings.
As a result of the victory, Great Britain was used by U. S and other Allied forces as a base from which to begin the D-Day landings in June and the liberation of Nazi-occupied Western Europe. Nevertheless, German raids continued on British cities albeit on a smaller and less destructive scale for the rest of the war, and later the V1 Flying Bomb and V-2 ballistic missile were both used against Britain.
However, the balance of bomb tonnage being dropped shifted greatly in favour of the RAF as Bomber Command gained in strength. By , Bomber Command could put 1, bombers over one German city. During the beginning raids of Operation Barbarossa the Luftwaffe wiped out the majority of the Soviet air forces. The Soviets would only regain their air wing later in the war with the help of the United States. Army Air Forces units being deployed to England to join the assault on mainland Europe on 4 July Bomber Command raided by night and the US forces by day.
The 'Operation Gomorrah' raids on Hamburg 24 July — 29 July caused a firestorm leading to massive destruction and loss of life. On 14 February , a raid on Dresden produced one of the most devastating fires in history. A firestorm was created in the city, and between 18, and 25, people were killed. Prior to the war Italy had invadedAlbania and officially annexed it.
Mussolini's regime declared war on Britain and France on 10 June , and invaded Greece on 28 October. However, Italian forces were unable to match the Nazi successes in northwest Europe. Italy declared war on Greece and invaded the country, but it was not until German intervention that the country was overrun. While the Greek campaign was underway, German forces, supported by the Italians, Hungarians and the Bulgarians simultaneously invaded Yugoslavia. After the mainland was conquered, Germany invaded Crete in what is known as the Battle of Crete.
With the Balkans secure, Germany and her allies attacked the Soviet Union in the largest land operation in history. The Balkans campaign delayed the invasion, [ citation needed ] and subsequent resistance movements in Albania, Yugoslavia and Greece tied up valuable Axis forces. Following the Axis defeat in Africa, Allied forces invaded Italy and during a prolonged campaign fought their way north through Italy.
The invasion of Italy resulted in the nation switching sides to the Allies and the ousting of Mussolini. But, in spite of the coup, Fascists and occupying German forces retained possession of the northern half of Italy.
In northern part of Italy, the occupying Germans installed Mussolini as the head of new fascist republican government, the Italian Social Republic or RSI to show that the Axis was still in force. But Mussolini and his Fascists were now puppet rulers under their German patrons. Allied and mostly pro-Soviet National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, which got some supplies and assistance from Western Allies, battled Axis powers on the opposite side of the Adriatic Sea.
In late it was joined with the advancing Soviet Army and proceeded to push remaining German forces out of the Balkans. By April , German forces were retreating on all fronts in northern Italy and occupied Yugoslavia, following continuous Allied attacks. The campaign, and the fighting in the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre came to an end on 29 April. Fighting would, however, continue in Greece where a civil war had broke out and end on after Greek government troops aided by the US and Britain defeated the communist guerrillas supported by Marshall Tito and USSR.
It is generally accepted as being the most lethal conflict in human history, with over 30 million dead as a result. It involved more land combat than all other World War II theatres combined. On the very night of the invasion Soviet troops received a directive undersigned by MarshalTimoshenko and General of the ArmyGeorgi Zhukov that commanded: 'do not answer to any provocations' and 'do not undertake any actions without specific orders'.
The early weeks of the invasion were devastating for the Soviet Army. Enormous numbers of Soviet troops were encircled in pockets and fell into Nazi German hands. In addition to German troops, Italian, Hungarian and Romanian and Finnish troops were also involved in the campaign.
Finland initially declared neutrality; however, with both German and Soviet troops on her soil, Finland was well prepared to join forces with Germany when the Soviet Union attacked on 25 June. The following conflict from to is sometimes referred to as the Continuation War, as in the continuation of the Winter War. Spain immediately offered military assistants to the Axis by sending volunteers to the Eastern front, known as the Blue division. Operation Barbarossa suffered from several fundamental flaws.
The most serious of these was the logistical situation of the attack. The sheer vastness of the distances in the Soviet Union meant that Germany could only advance so far before outrunning their supply chains. By the time the German attack froze to a halt before Moscow on December 5, , it literally could not go any further. There simply were not enough supplies reaching the front to conduct proper defensive operations, let alone a proper offense. The timetable that Barbarossa was planned to assume that the Soviets would collapse before the onset of winter.
During their long retreat, the Soviets employed a scorched earth policy. They burnt crops and destroyed utilities as they withdrew before Germany. That helped to contribute to the logistical problems that Germany experienced.
More importantly for them, the Soviets also succeeded in a massive and unprecedented removal of their industry from the threatened war zone to protected areas in the East. The extension of the campaign beyond the length that Germany expected meant that the German Army suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties in winter conditions, and from the counterattacks of Soviet units.
Even with their advance having ground to a halt due to a lack of supplies and the onset of winter, Germany had conquered a vast amount of territory, including two-fifths of the Soviet economy. Dislodging them proved difficult and eventually cost the Soviet Union dearly. A few months after the invasion began, German troops came to southern approaches to Leningrad and laid a siege to the city known as the Siege of Leningrad , which was also blocked from the north by Finnish forces.
Hitler had ordered that the city of Leningrad must 'vanish from the surface of the earth', with its entire population exterminated. Rather than storming the city, the Wehrmacht was ordered to blockade Leningrad so as to starve the city to death, while attacking it with bombers and artillery.
About one million civilians died in the Leningrad siege — , by starvation. The siege lasted for days. The only overland way into the city was possibly during the winter, across the frozen Lake Ladoga, between the German and Finnish lines. After enduring the winter of —, the German army prepared for further offensive operations.
For this reason, [ citation needed ] Germany decided to give up on Moscow for the time being, and the summer offensive of decided to focus on the war in the south, with the target being the oil fields of the Caucasus.
Meanwhile, the Soviets had their own plans. Beginning of the campaign turned into a strategic disaster for Soviets whose Southern flank was nearly destroyed. Surviving Soviet units were pushed hundreds kilometres to the east and the Wehrmacht advance went almost uncontested.
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