Here is the beginning of the end for the Thousand Year Reich

1. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 5
Hitler Brought Down, Closing the Ring, 1943-1944

2. Sessions remaining:
Hitler Brought Down; Nemesis, 1944-45

3. For Further Study
Anton Gill. An Honourable Defeat; A History
of the German Resistance to Hitler,
1933-1945. NYC: Holt, 1994.
Saul Friedländer. The Years of
Extermination; Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945. NYC: Harper Collins, 2007.
John Keegan. The Second World War.
Kershaw, vol II, Chaps. 12 - 13, pp. 559-651.

4. Key points from Session 4
Mussolini required “backup” for failed military adventures
in North AFrica and Greece
with Barbarossa Hitler launched the war he had been
planning for twenty years
the Italian “rescue” in the Balkans caused delay and
reduced mechanical readiness which hurt German efforts
still the first successes in the summer of 1941 seemed to
justify Hitler’s decision for two-front war
doubts grew by the first Russian winter
the dual defeats of El Alamein and Stalingrad at the end
of 1942 sealed Germany’s fate

9. Josip Broz Tito

13. To the victors of Crete

14. dead German paratrooper

20. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 5
Hitler Brought Down, Closing the Ring, 1943-1944

21. Sessions remaining:
Hitler Brought Down; Nemesis, 1944-45

22. For Further Study
Anton Gill. An Honourable Defeat; A History
of the German Resistance to Hitler,
1933-1945. NYC: Holt, 1994.
Saul Friedländer. The Years of
Extermination; Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945. NYC: Harper Collins, 2007.
John Keegan. The Second World War.
Kershaw, vol II, Chaps. 12 - 13, pp. 559-651.

23. Key points from Session 4
Mussolini required “backup” for failed military adventures
in North AFrica and Greece
with Barbarossa Hitler launched the war he had been
planning for twenty years
the Italian “rescue” in the Balkans caused delay and
reduced mechanical readiness which hurt German efforts
still the first successes in the summer of 1941 seemed to
justify Hitler’s decision for two-front war
doubts grew by the first Russian winter
the dual defeats of El Alamein and Stalingrad at the end
of 1942 sealed Germany’s fate

28. Eiserne Kreuzen being awarded
for Kesselschlact Bialystok

32. Soviet troops

33. Soviet POWs

34. SOVIET CITIZENS
AND CITIZENS OF THE
OCCUPIED GERMAN DISTRICTS
HELP THE PARTISANS IN THEIR STRUGGLE
AGAINST THE GERMANS. YOU ALSO FIGHT THE GERMANS.
DEATH TO THE GERMAN OCCUPIERS!

35. Sophie Scholl

36. the White Rose

37. frame from the film “Sophie Scholl”

38. the White
Rose
leaflet

39. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 5
Hitler Brought Down, Closing the Ring, 1943-1944

40. Sessions remaining:
Hitler Brought Down; Nemesis, 1944-45

41. For Further Study
Anton Gill. An Honourable Defeat; A History
of the German Resistance to Hitler,
1933-1945. NYC: Holt, 1994.
Saul Friedländer. The Years of
Extermination; Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945. NYC: Harper Collins, 2007.
John Keegan. The Second World War.
Kershaw, vol II, Chaps. 12 - 13, pp. 559-651.

42. Key points from Session 4
Mussolini required “backup” for failed military adventures
in North AFrica and Greece
with Barbarossa Hitler launched the war he had been
planning for twenty years
the Italian “rescue” in the Balkans caused delay and
reduced mechanical readiness which hurt German efforts
still the first successes in the summer of 1941 seemed to
justify Hitler’s decision for two-front war
doubts grew by the first Russian winter
the dual defeats of El Alamein and Stalingrad at the end
of 1942 sealed Germany’s fate

51. Strike the enemy until he’s completely annihilated

56. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 5
Hitler Brought Down, Closing the Ring, 1943-1944

57. Sessions remaining:
Hitler Brought Down; Nemesis, 1944-45

58. For Further Study
Anton Gill. An Honourable Defeat; A History
of the German Resistance to Hitler,
1933-1945. NYC: Holt, 1994.
Saul Friedländer. The Years of
Extermination; Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945. NYC: Harper Collins, 2007.
John Keegan. The Second World War.
Kershaw, vol II, Chaps. 12 - 13, pp. 559-651.

59. Key points from Session 4
Mussolini required “backup” for failed military adventures
in North AFrica and Greece
with Barbarossa Hitler launched the war he had been
planning for twenty years
the Italian “rescue” in the Balkans caused delay and
reduced mechanical readiness which hurt German efforts
still the first successes in the summer of 1941 seemed to
justify Hitler’s decision for two-front war
doubts grew by the first Russian winter
the dual defeats of El Alamein and Stalingrad at the end
of 1942 sealed Germany’s fate

60. Soviet partisans

61. more Soviet partisans

62. Soviet
leaflet
urging
German
soldiers
to
surrender

65. model of Führerbunker, Wolfsschanze

69. Soviet POWs fighting for food

70. Deadly
Business

71. You
signed yourself up as a
volunteer?

72. Forward!
Victory is near!

73. Sniper from afar,
but always on the mark!

74. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 5
Hitler Brought Down, Closing the Ring, 1943-1944

75. Sessions remaining:
Hitler Brought Down; Nemesis, 1944-45

76. For Further Study
Anton Gill. An Honourable Defeat; A History
of the German Resistance to Hitler,
1933-1945. NYC: Holt, 1994.
Saul Friedländer. The Years of
Extermination; Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945. NYC: Harper Collins, 2007.
John Keegan. The Second World War.
Kershaw, vol II, Chaps. 12 - 13, pp. 559-651.

77. Key points from Session 4
Mussolini required “backup” for failed military adventures
in North AFrica and Greece
with Barbarossa Hitler launched the war he had been
planning for twenty years
the Italian “rescue” in the Balkans caused delay and
reduced mechanical readiness which hurt German efforts
still the first successes in the summer of 1941 seemed to
justify Hitler’s decision for two-front war
doubts grew by the first Russian winter
the dual defeats of El Alamein and Stalingrad at the end
of 1942 sealed Germany’s fate

79. Hero
City
Lenin-
grad

80. fallen Soviet soldier

86. battle for a Stalingrad factory

87. panorama of Stalingrad across the Volga

90. German & Romanian POWs, Feb, 1943

91. Soviet T-34

92. German Tiger

93. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 5
Hitler Brought Down, Closing the Ring, 1943-1944

94. Sessions remaining:
Hitler Brought Down; Nemesis, 1944-45

95. For Further Study
Anton Gill. An Honourable Defeat; A History
of the German Resistance to Hitler,
1933-1945. NYC: Holt, 1994.
Saul Friedländer. The Years of
Extermination; Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945. NYC: Harper Collins, 2007.
John Keegan. The Second World War.
Kershaw, vol II, Chaps. 12 - 13, pp. 559-651.

96. Key points from Session 4
Mussolini required “backup” for failed military adventures
in North AFrica and Greece
with Barbarossa Hitler launched the war he had been
planning for twenty years
the Italian “rescue” in the Balkans caused delay and
reduced mechanical readiness which hurt German efforts
still the first successes in the summer of 1941 seemed to
justify Hitler’s decision for two-front war
doubts grew by the first Russian winter
the dual defeats of El Alamein and Stalingrad at the end
of 1942 sealed Germany’s fate

97. the second Russian winter

98. Now, VOLK,
arise
and
storm break
forth!
from Goebbels’ “Total War” speech, 18.februar.1943

99. 57,000 German POWS paraded thru Moscow
May, 1944

100. This was the Allied
first blow ... propaganda
leaflet

101. All Hail the 25th anniversary
of the Leninist-Stalinist KomSoMol
(League of Communist Youth)

102. THE FRONT DRAWS NEARER

103. Unbeugsamer
Glaube
undoubting belief
fanatischer
Siegeswille
fanatical “victory will”
still Hitler’s “script”
even after Stalingrad

104. Unbeugsamer
Glaube
undoubting belief
fanatischer
Siegeswille
fanatical “victory will”
still Hitler’s “script”
even after Stalingrad

109. TRUE TO HIS OATH
SLAIN IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE
FREEDOM OF GREATER GERMANY
NCO Hans Ristaü
on 17.7.1944
THE HERO’S DEATH FOR
FUEHRER•VOLK AND VATERLAND

114. 20.juli.44