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World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war.
The Military Administration in France (German: Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; French: Administration militaire en France) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France.
Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, official document collection of Vatican City pertaining to World War II; Australia in the War of 1939–1945, official war history of Australia; Germany and the Second World War (Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg), semi-official German history
La grande honte de l'incorporation de force des Alsaciens-Lorrains, Eupenois-Malmédiens et Luxembourgeois dans l'armée allemande au cours de la deuxième guerre mondiale (in French). Colmar. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Powaski, Ronald E. (2008). Lightning War: Blitzkrieg in the West, 1940.
On 1 September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, initiating World War II. [1] This put Luxembourg's Grand Ducal government in a delicate situation. On one hand, the population's sympathies lay with the UK and France; on the other hand, due to the country's policy of neutrality since the Treaty of London in 1867, the government adopted a careful non-belligerent stance towards its neighbours.
Berlin, the capital of Germany, was subject to 363 air raids during the Second World War. [1] It was bombed by the RAF Bomber Command between 1940 and 1945, the United States Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force between 1943 and 1945, and the French Air Force in 1940 and between 1944 and 1945 as part of the Allied campaign of strategic bombing of Germany.
Heinrich Himmler, saluted by a Luxembourg policeman, during his visit to Luxembourg in October 1940, several months after the invasion.. The involvement of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in World War II began with its invasion by German forces on 10 May 1940 and lasted beyond its liberation by Allied forces in late 1944 and early 1945.
Date Location Notes Reference 2 September 1944 La Glanerie []: First settlement to be liberated. An American motorcyclist arrived in the village after unknowingly crossing the Belgian border, and later returned with his battalion to liberate the village.