Resultados para "Sand" en Europa

The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the bloodiest combat theater in the bloodiest war in history. Oberleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Sander experienced this bloodshed firsthand when serving with the 11th Panzer-Regiment. This regiment made up the core of the 6th Panzer-Division, one of Hitler's top armored formations, which was involved in most of the major campaigns on the Eastern Front; campaigns such as Operation Barbarossa and Operation Winter Storm.

‘The very grubby coalface of foreign policy … I found the entire book most horribly addictive’ Independent ‘One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the other’ Spectator A fascinating...

Among the operations known as Plan Bodyguard, the deception devised to cover the Allies’ Normandy landing, was the little known but critical Plan Zeppelin, the largest and most complex of the Bodyguard plans. Zeppelin, in conjunction with the Mediterranean Strategy, succeeded in pinning down sixty German divisions from southern France to the Balkans in time for D-Day. This was the work of “A” Force, Britain’s only military organization tasked with carrying out both strategic and tactical deception in World War II.

24 führende Persönlichkeiten des NS-Apparats sollen für den deutschen Angriffskrieg und Massenmord zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden. Das Feature von Jochanan Shelliem dokumentiert nicht nur präzise die Prozessabläufe, sondern gewährt durch Zeitzeugen wie Erika Mann, Gefängnisarzt Pflücker und Chefdolmetscher Sonnenfeldt - vielfach im O-Ton - einen profunden Einblick hinter die Kulissen. Berichte über intime Verhörszenen, das körperliche und seelische Befinden der Angeklagten sowie ihre Reaktionen auf die Urteilsverkündung erzeugen ein Bild von bedrückender Intensität.