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HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014

HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014. Lecture Eigh teen : Germany in World War II. War Begins. The Conquest of Poland From “ Sitzkrieg ” to Conquest in the West From Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain The Balkans and Greece North Africa Operation Barbarossa

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HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014

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  1. HIST 2117: Modern GermanySpring 2014 Lecture Eighteen: Germany in World War II

  2. War Begins • The Conquest of Poland • From “Sitzkrieg” to Conquest in the West • From Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain • The Balkans and Greece • North Africa • Operation Barbarossa • Conduct of the War in Russia

  3. The Course of War • Hitler as Strategist • Japan and the United States • The First Reverse • Renewed Offensive and the Path to Stalingrad • U-Boat War in the Atlantic • The Search for a Secret Weapon -- Jet Aircraft, V-1 and V-2 Rockets

  4. The Home Front • The Problem of Supplying War • Albert Speer and the Armaments Ministry • Forced Labor • The Beginning of the Bombing Campaign • The Destruction of Hamburg and Cologne

  5. Internal Resistance • Niemoeller, Bonhoeffer and the BekennendeKirche • The White Rose • July 20 Plot • Hitler’s Increasing Instability

  6. Collapse • The Russian Advance • German Defeat in North Africa and Italy • D-Day, the Ring Closes • Intensified Bombing Campaign • Failure of Military Industry • Battle of Berlin and End of the Nazis

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