Introduction -- Politics 1940-1941. Europe in July 1940 ; Hitler's ideology and strategy ; The monstrous scheme : a Greater Germanic empire ; Stalin's ideology and strategy -- The eve of war. The ...
Hitler’s war was broken by a pattern of overreach, not just one mistake. The failure to defeat Britain, the invasion of the Soviet Union and the disaster at Stalingrad turned early victory into ...
Plot to murder Hitler -- "Unconditional surrender" -- "Fifty thousand Germans must be shot!" -- "On the back of an envelope" -- Terrible silence -- "One hundred ...
Editor’s note: The brief, unsettling moment in history between the end of World War I in 1918 and the United States’ entrance into World War II in late 1941 covers the same timespan as between 2000 ...
Celebrate Victory Day 2026 with H. E. Roman Ambarov, Ambassador of Russia to South Africa, as he reflects on the 81st ...