HST 603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sportpalast Speech, Wehrmacht, Total War
12 Feb 2018
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1943 battle of stalingrad symbolic turning point in the war. 1941 as the turning point assumes the loss is counted to the size of red and us ar productive economy. German arms production preferring technologically developed/fancier products w (complexity takes time, don"t have production capacity) Working towards the fuhrer & multiple agencies (overlapping jurisdictions) becom especially with such limited resources. Loss of the war is a total loss, no possibility of stab-in-the-back myth. Beginning of 1944 the 3r controlled most of europe but was being pushed back. By 1940, mussolini requested german aid for conquest attempts in africa a possibility to secure the mediterranean. Allies pushed back in 1943 and later defeated. Mussolini arrested, saved by german commandos, becomes head of puppe. Most italian jews lost in 1944-45 of holocaust. Atlantic being used for allies to bring/send troops and food. Ally becoming puppet state, once germans are an occupying power the hun targeted (1944-45)
