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Автор: David K. Yelton Sean O Brogain
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 1-84603-013-7
Количество страниц: 64
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 47 Мб
Каталожный номер: 36560
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Изображения: черно-белые фото, цветные рисунки The summer of 1944 had brought two sledgehammer blows against the Third Reich: the invasion of Normandy and Operation Bagration or, as the Germans descriptively named it, the Destruction of Army Group Center. Hitler and his lieutenants believed that Nazi Germany needed additional troops and a fanaticization of its will to reverse the course of the war, and part of their response was the creation of the German Volkssturm. This militia consisted of all civilian German men aged 16 to 60 and existed to help the armed forces, the Wehrmacht, wage a bitter struggle for every city, town, and village in Germany. Because creating this resistance would require fanatical commitment, Hitler chose to have the Nazi Party organize and administer the force in the belief that the Party had superior motivational expertise.
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