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The incident began with the retaliation for the death of a German policeman killed by a burglar on July 14. Two days later, in a reprisal act of collective punishment, 20 civilian hostages, ethnic Poles from Olkusz and its surrounding region, were shot in the Olkusz neighborhood of Parcze. Two weeks later, on a day that became known as the ...
Defence expenditure also grew rapidly from just 12 percent of the gross national product in 1933 to 18 percent by 1940. [140] During Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in the late 1930s, which had not ended by the time of the German invasion on 22 June 1941, much of the officer corps of the Red Army was executed or imprisoned.
After the Altmark Incident, the Luftwaffe launched a strike against the British navy base at Scapa Flow on 16 March 1940, leading to the first British civilian death. A British attack followed three days later against the German airbase at Hörnum on the island of Sylt, [107] hitting a hospital, although there were no casualties. [108]
Finnish ski troops in Northern Finland January 12, 1940. 1 February: The Japanese Diet announces a record high budget with over half its expenditures being military.; 5 February: Britain and France decide to intervene in Norway to cut off the iron ore trade in anticipation of an expected German occupation and ostensibly to open a route to assist Finland.
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941, [4] for slightly over 8 months during the Second World War.. The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority between the Luftwaffe ...
The target, which was at the extreme range for the planes, demanded a round trip of 1,900 miles (3,100 km) from bases in England. Planes from RAF Skellingthorpe (Lincs) could not return to base and diverted to RAF Tain in northern Scotland after 10 hours and 35 minutes' flying time (cf. 11 hours and 20 minutes' return to base three days later ...
Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1940s (4 C, 78 P) M. 1940s mass shootings (13 C) Attacks on military installations in the 1940s (3 C, 47 P) T.
[34] [35] Another attack took place on 13/14 July, which appears have been intended to damage the railway system and caused more than 20 deaths. Two further attacks later in the year failed to penetrate the city's defences. [36] [37] No bomb fell on the city in 1944. [38] In March 1945 the city came under ground attack with cannon shells being ...