World War II, the European front was a raging battle between the allied forces and Nazi Germany. ... They dove on the German lines with machine guns rattling and releasing their 500-pound bombs. ... As the assaulting allies grew closer to the German lines, field artillery boomed and pounded the Germans 500 yards ahead of the advancing element. ... By 30 July, many key terrain features were captured but there seemed to be no front any more. ... The plan was to link the divisions together that had been slashing through the German lines, creating a large trap around German forces. ...

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As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing coul...

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Some of his daily duties were on the front lines and at headquarters, He was wounded in the leg in 1916 and gassed in 1918. ... (the several passages that follow are from related readings- All Quiet on the Western Front) " Still blinded at the train carried him eastward, Hitler was in a state bordering collapse. ... Hitler not only had a second blindness but surprisingly enough cried for the first time since standing in front of his mother's grave in Leonding, Austria. ...

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Take for example that while the original allied forces contained Tsarist Russia, Britain & France , the allies would later be split with the loss of Tsarist Russia to the Bolsheviks and the inclusion of the USA on the front. ... In 1918, thousands of Italian soldiers were returning from the front lines of World War One, Mussolini was among them. ...

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The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...

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