Battles

Battles, campaigns and important basic decisions of WW2.

At this page, various interesting strategic decisions, campaigns and individual battles are investigated more closely, which had a more or less great influence on the course of WW2.

Roosevelt is talking with his foreign minister Cordell Hull.
Part III of 'Why did Hitler declare war on the US?' Back to PART II: The 'undeclared war' of the Read more
Geramn infantry on Panzers
German Orders of Battle of 11 May 1942 and the Planning of the Summer Offensive (Operation Blue). Here to the Read more
gebjaeger murmansk
Operation Silver Fox from 1941 was a major World War II campaign. This combined German-Finnish offensive launched in the summer Read more
Battleship Pennsylvania
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German infantry, armed with 98K rifles as well as grenade throwers
Could had Operation Barbarossa - Hitler's attack on Soviet Russia - a different course and why was the invasion carried Read more
88 mm Flak ready for firing during Operation Battleaxe
Operations Brevity and Battleaxe were two British offensives launched in May and June 1941 along the Egypt-Libya frontier. Both aimed Read more
British troops crossing the border to Lebanon.
The campaigns in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon in 1941. In the spring of 1941, Britain found itself facing a sudden Read more
Russian PoWs
Soviet Prisoners Of War (POWs) in German hands in WW2: The Inconvenient Truth. The story of Soviet Prisoners of War Read more
Greek security bataillons
The Unholy Alliance: How the Security Battalions, German Occupiers, and British Forces Fought Greek Communism. Between 1943 and 1944, an Read more
Soldiers of the 69th US Division and the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front
Second World War, overview of the course from 1943 to 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers by the Read more
Kanada Wehrmacht 1
Imagine waking up in Canada, pulling back the curtains, and suddenly seeing soldiers marching through the snow wearing swastika armbands. Read more
capture of Paris
Second World War, overview of the course of the 'Blitzkriege' (lightning wars) from 1939 to 1940 (Part I). Polish campaign, Read more
de bomber manhattan
Hitler and the German high command really wanted a direct strike on the United States. New York City sat right Read more
Early T-34 tanks
A Comprehensive Analysis of Soviet Weapon and Equipment Losses During WWII The Soviet Union lost enormous amounts of military equipment Read more
Fw 190 attacking a Spitfire
A Comprehensive Analysis of Air Superiority: World War II was a turning point in aerial warfare. Fighter planes became vital Read more
German flamethrower in action
History and causes of the Balkan campaign 1940-1941. Mussolini’s Greek adventure on 28 October 1940 to the German attack of Read more
Nashorn tank destroyer in front of Vistula bridgehead
The last Russian Winter Offensive of the war started with the Battle of the Vistula. The Battle of the Vistula Read more
Bardia ge it soldiers
On March 24, 1941, German General Erwin Rommel launched his first offensive in North Africa. What looked like an imminent Read more
Panzer 3 in street fightings.
Second World War, overview of the course of the 'Axis high tide' from 1941 to 1942 (Part II). Mediterranean theater, Read more
pilots were running to their Spitfires
The Battle of Britain in 1940-1941. Operation Sea lion, strengths of the German Navy and Luftwaffe vs RAF, the air Read more

Attack of German infantry
Attack of German infantry during the Blitzkrieg campaigns.
In so doing, less emphasis is placed on the number of battles or even on the complete treatment of all campaigns and strategic decisions, but on the essential and important operations for an important time interval of the WW2 War Diary or the armies‘ organization. The main focus here is on the units deployed in these battles and campaigns, and their strength, equipment and armament.

Additional, a large space is given to the strategic decisions of the principle – and here, above all (except maybe Joseph Stalin), the notorious individual decisions of the German Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, who dominate everything. Hitler so decisively influence the course of the war as no other of the participating decision-makers.

Although Hitler had all options in his hands until the summer of 1941, his decisions resulted in the creation of the campaigns and battles, but the booklet of the trade was then torn from his hands of the Allies. However, all subsequent events, which were mostly triggered by the Allies, were still the product of Hitler’s strategy.

Especially for the development of war games as exact simulations are questions of the possible historical options and the ‘what if?’ necessary, besides the exact assessment of the fighting power of the involved armed forces and weapons for the calculation of alternative and fictional battles, if players or an artificial intelligence (AI) as ‘Supreme Commander’ takes other decisions than actually happened during WW2.

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