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Life on the home front during World War II was a significant part of the war effort for all participants and had a major impact on the outcome of the war. Governments became involved with new issues such as rationing, manpower allocation, home defense, evacuation in the face of air raids, and response to occupation by an enemy power.
The Heim ins Reich (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪm ʔɪns ˈʁaɪç] ⓘ; meaning "back home to the Reich") was a foreign policy pursued by Adolf Hitler before and during World War II, beginning in 1936 [see Nazi Four Year Plan; Grams, 2021].
The Ruhr pocket was a battle of encirclement that took place in April 1945, on the Western Front near the end of World War II in Europe, in the Ruhr Area of Germany. Some 317,000 German troops were taken prisoner along with 24 generals. The Americans suffered 10,000 casualties including 2,000 killed or missing.
Operation Northwind (German: Unternehmen Nordwind) was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front.Northwind was launched to support the German Ardennes offensive campaign in the Battle of the Bulge, which by late December 1944 had decisively turned against the German forces.
Germany and the Second World War is the English translation of the series which Clarendon Press (an imprint of Oxford University Press) began publishing in 1990.By 2017, 11 of the 13 parts had been published at a rate of one every two years, although a long delay occurred between the publications of parts IX/I and IX/II after the death of the main translation editor.
Pages in category "Germany home front during World War II" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Marburg Files are the main subject and focus of the episode "Vergangenheit" ("Past") of the Netflix television series The Crown, [16] which depicts Queen Elizabeth II's initial review of the documents. The episode's director Philippa Lowthorpe stated that replicas of genuine files were used during filming. [11]
Wehrmachtbericht (German: [ˈveːɐ̯maxtbəˌʁɪçt] ⓘ, literally: "Armed forces report", usually translated as Wehrmacht communiqué or Wehrmacht report) was the daily Wehrmacht High Command mass-media communiqué and a key component of Nazi propaganda during World War II.