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List of Waffen-SS divisions

ENTERING WORLD WAR II in December 1941, the US government gave priority to the defeat of Germany rather than the war against Japan. Commanding the vast American forces sent across the Atlantic was a huge task entrusted to individuals who had little or no combat experience. Command structures were necessarily complex: in France in late 1944 General George Patton had two other generals, Omar Brad...

Field Marshal Erwin Rómmel earned his fame as a commander of mobile armoured forces in Europe and North Africa from 1940 to 1943. He was unique in being praised by both sides in the war - in the summer of 1942 British prime minister Winston Churchill, described him as “a very skilful and daring opponent” and “a great general”, and in Germany he was known as the “people’s marshal”.

The generals who SERVED under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in what was called “the Great Patriotic War” were survivors of the purges of the 1930s. These led to the execution or dismissal of 720 out of 837 Soviet officers above the rank of colonel, for supposed disloyalty to the regime. From June 1941 Soviet commanders had to cope not only with a massive invasion by the armies of Germany and its...

GERMANY HAD THE MOST GIFTED generals of World War II. Their doctrine of mobile warfare welded bold operational plans to flexible tactics and allowed initiative at all levels. Politically, however, they served a fascist regime that embroiled the German Army in dishonour and defeat. After the invasion of the Soviet Union and the American entry into the war in December 1941, German commanders were...

How many people died in World War II

During the Second World War, about 130 million people were mobilized (4% of them were women) out of 2.2 billion people who lived on Earth in 1939. Representatives of 30 nations were mobilized. Approximately 70% were mobilized by the Allies, the rest by the Axis countries. In absolute numbers , the largest The contingents were fielded by the USSR, the USA, China and Germany.