Experts debate constantly and vigorously on the reasons surrounding the Third Reich's downfall in World War II, placing blame on the German military, other Axis powers, or Hitler himself. However, the three biggest blunders made by Hitler, which ultimately led to him losing World War II and his downfall include invading the Soviet Union, declaring war on the United States, and sparing British and French forces at Dunkirk. ... Experts for some time have discussed and analyzed the true reasons behind this invasion, noting a wide range of things. ... All of which proved disastrous for Hit...

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The Conqueror's by Michael Beschloss World War II is one of the most intensively studied conflicts in history and nearly sixty years after its end, new information is still emerging. The Conquerors describes the politics surrounding the war. ... As allied forces fought Germany in public eye, Roosevelt and later Truman fought Churchill and Stalin in private on the best way to ensure that Germany can never threaten the world again. ... To prove his point he quotes from the December 17, 1942 Allied Declaration on war crimes noting that FDR speaks of the "mass executions" of many of "hun...

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By late 1924 Hitler was release on parole, after serving a portion his five year sentence, and quickly regained control of the Nazi Party, noting that any future seizure must come by legal measures through Parliamentary elections. ... In 1929 Hitler finally got his chance, the American stock market crash of 1929 affected nearly every nation in the world and German prosperity soon came to an end as a result of the Great Depression, vast unemployment and hunger that followed. ... World War II officially began after Hitler's march on Poland and the succession of rapid defeats and occupatio...

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Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. ... As he notes in the beginning of the book, "the Holocaust took place because at the most basic level individual human beings killed other human beings in large numbers over an extended period of time. ... The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. ... It also do...

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The American financiers were the most powerful in the world because the Entente countries depended on loans from the USA to fund their war effort. ... In addition many countries were yet to recover from the First World War. ... Another problem caused by the First World War was that of inflation. ... The situation in Germany was made worse because of the reparations they had to pay as a consequence for having started World War I. ... The consequences of the depression were so serve in some countries especially Germany that hostile political parties gained power which in turn led to the outbreak...

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It is an intriguing topic and one that has been the subject of debate since the end of the war. ... After World War II, Roper was sent to Germany by the British government to investigate and verify Adolf Hitler's death. ... Instead, it mentions a Russian spy who was a messenger in the Bunker and the importance of this man's role during World War I. ... The authors note that if the Goebbls" had not known for certain that Hitler was dead, then they would not have taken their children's lives as well as their own. ... While Trevor-Roper's book was written immediately after...

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He fell into a deep depression and contemplated suicide, until he heard that Germany was now at war. ... In 1919, after the war, the army gave him a job spying on potentially dangerous underground political organizations. ... Defying the Treaty of Versaille, Hitler began preparing Germany for war: building a strong air force, army and navy. ... After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American declared war against the Axis powers and after four years, Hitler was dead and the war over. However, the war had only been a cover-up for Hitler's true objective: the holocaust. ...

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It was as if I was in a fantasy dream world and thought that at any moment I would wake up from this unreality and find that I was back in the barrack room at Bulford Camp. ... I felt literally on top of the world. ... Background of D-Day: The Second World War had started almost five years ear, on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. ... Italy pushed the war into North Africa. ... These conclusions, with their notes of pessimism, were not shared by the bomber commanders, and were echoes of a new problem of immense significance. ...

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This second camp was called Auschwitz II, or Birkinau. ... That is the question which has been rearing its head in scientific research since the end of World War II. ... The other goal of the Nazi scientists was to provide human data that could be applied to the war effort. ...

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