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Pius XII became Pope on the eve of World War II, and maintained links to the German Resistance. Although remaining publicly neutral, Pius advised the British in 1940 of the readiness of certain German generals to overthrow Hitler if they could be assured of an honourable peace, offered assistance to the German resistance in the event of a coup ...
There are both men and women on this list of Widerstandskämpfer ("Resistance fighters") primarily German, some Austrian or from elsewhere, who risked or lost their lives in a number of ways. They tried to overthrow the National Socialist regime, they denounced its wars as criminal, tried to prevent World War II and sabotaged German attacks on ...
Winter in Wartime, 2008 adaptation of Jan Terlouw's 1972 novel, about a Dutch youth whose favors for members of the Dutch Resistance during the last winter of World War II have a devastating impact on his family; The Resistance Banker Bankier van het verzet (film), is a 2018 Dutch World-War-II-period drama film directed by Joram Lürsen. The ...
This is a timeline of the events that stretched over the period of late World War II, its conclusion, legal aftermath, with the inclusion of the Cold War, from January 1945 to December 1991. January 1945
3: Second Battle of El Alamein ends – German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night. American victory over the Japanese in Guadalcanal in the Koli Point action . 5: German III Panzer Corps and Romanian 2nd Mountain Division capture the town of Alagir , which is the furthest south the Axis would reach on the Eastern ...
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days ...
German resistance to Nazism; Landsturm, German resistance groups fighting against France during the Napoleonic Wars; Volkssturm, a German resistance group and militia created by the NSDAP near the end of World War II; Werwolf, a German guerrilla and pro-Nazi resistance organisation resisting Allied occupation of Germany
Every year on October 28, there are parades and ceremonies in both Greece and around the world to commemorate the Greeks’ resistance to Italian and German forces during World War II. The ...