Main article: KirchenkampfSee also: Religion in Nazi GermanyAbout 65 per cent of the population of Germany was Protestant when the Nazis seized power in 1933. Under the Gleichschaltung process, Hitler ...
Reich economicsThe most pressing economic matter the Nazis initially faced was the 30 per cent national unemployment rate. Economist Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Ec ...
Estimates of the total German war dead range from 5.5 to 6.9 million persons. A study by German historian Rüdiger Overmans puts the number of German military dead and missing at 5.3 million, includin ...
Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are common names for Germany during the period from 1933 to 1945, when its government was controlled by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party ( ...
At the outset of World War II, there was controversy over whether Australia should concentrate on forming an expeditionary force for overseas service to fight Germany in Europe or a home defence force ...
Major battles and sub-campaigns Operation R (1942)Bombing of Rabaul (1942)Action off Bougainville (1942)Operation SR (1942)Operation Mo (1942)Battle of the Coral Sea (1942)Kokoda Track campaign (1942) ...
Main article: Taiwan Expedition of 1874The Taiwan Expedition of 1874 was a punitive expedition by Japanese military forces in response to the murder of 54 crewmembers of a wrecked Ryukyuan merchant ve ...
Rommel placed the blame for the failure to capture Tobruk squarely on the Italians. However, it was Italian forces (19th and 20th Infantry Regiments of the Brescia Division, the 5th and 12th Bersaglie ...
For much of the siege, Tobruk was defended by the reinforced Australian 9th Division under Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead. General Archibald Wavell—Commander-in-Chief of British Middle East Comma ...
Panzer /?p?nz?r/ (German pronunciation: ( listen)) is a German language word that means either tank (the military vehicle) or armour. It is occasionally used in English and some other languages as ...
From the beginning, the German government repeatedly asked Vyacheslav Molotov whether the Soviet Union would keep to its side of the partition bargain. The Soviet forces were holding fast along their ...
Main article: Causes of World War IIIn 1933, the National-Socialist German Workers' Party, under its leader Adolf Hitler, came to power in Germany. As early as the autumn of 1933 Hitler envisioned ann ...
The defence of Australia took on a new urgency in December 1941 with the entry of Japan into the war. Within the Army there was a concern that Bennett or Lavarack would be appointed as Commander in Ch ...
The seventh of ten children, Blamey was born on 24 January 1884 in Lake Albert, near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. He was the son of Richard Blamey, a farmer who had emigrated from Cornwall at the age ...
The 1937 Imperial Conference was held in London from 14 May to 24 June, 1937, following the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on 12 May. It was the 8th and final Imperial Conference and ...
