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The Battle of Dunkirk was fought around the French port of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany. As the Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain from 26 May to 4 June 1940. After the Phoney War, the Battle of France began in earnest on 10 May 1940. To the east, the German Army Group B invaded the Netherlands and advanced westward. In response, the Supreme Allied Commander, French General Maurice Gamelin, initiated "Plan D" and British and French troops entered Belgium to engage the Germans in the Netherlands. French planning for war relied on the Maginot Line fortifications along the German–French border protecting the region of Lorraine but the line did not cover the Belgian border. German forces had already crossed most of the Netherlands before the French forces had arrived. Gamelin instead committed the forces under his command three mechanised forces, the French First and Seventh Armies and the British Expeditionary Force to the River Dyle. On 14 May, German Army Group A burst through the Ardennes and advanced rapidly westward toward Sedan, turning northward to the English Channel, using Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein's plan Sichelschnitt (under the German strategy Fall Gelb), effectively flanking the Allied forces. A series of Allied counter-attacks, including the Battle of Arras, failed to sever the German spearhead, which reached the coast on 20 May, separating the BEF near Armentières, the French First Army, and the Belgian Army further to the north from the majority of French troops south of the German penetration. After reaching the Channel, the German forces swung north along the coast, threatening to capture the ports and trap the British and French forces. Thousands of armored vehicles, motorcycles, wagons and jeeps, but also hundreds of helmets fall into German hands at Dunkirk Attacker. However, 338 226 Allied soldiers manages to escape to England. #ww2 #history #dunkirk #dünkirchen #britisharmy #royalairforce #francearmy #france #belgium #germany #germanarmy #war

A total of three position systems on the Oder and Neisse formed the so-called "Nibelung Position", which was supposed to defend Berlin. The order came late. Only on March 9, 1945 did the desperate measures to drive fortifications into the ground before Berlin begin. Day and night, the population was urged to dig trenches and shelters, which were then manned with the last remaining men. Reserves to block Soviet breakthroughs have long since ceased to exist. The picture shows a detachment of the Volkssturm with a MG 42 on the Oder. The man in the foreground is armed with a primitive "people's assault rifle" - one of the crude emergency measures the Wehrmacht had to resort to in 1945. #ww2 #history #war #worldwar2 #worldwartwo #udssr #sowjetunion #sowjet #wehrmacht #wehrmachthistory #partisanenlager #operationbarbarossa #ussr #sowjetarmee #germanarmy #ww2germany #germany #russia #stalin #weapons #weapons

Fall Weiß (Part 1) 1939 4.45 AM. The German battle ship ,,Schleswig Holsstein“ started shooting at the military station westerplatte and set the starting point of the biggest military conflict in human history. The SS-Heimwehr-Danzig and some German police troops attacked the polish post office in Danzig. The attack by Army Group North progressed according to plan in the first few days, at least in the area of 4th Army under Artillery General Günther von Kluge. In the corridor, parts of the Polish Army Pomerellen were trapped and smashed during the Battle of the Tucheler Heide near Graudenz. Only two of their divisions escaped defeat and joined the Posen army. Picture 1: German armored unit with Panzer I (front) and Panzer II (rear) on the Brahe river (Brda), sometime between 1st and 3rd September 1939. General Heinz Guderian is probably standing on the right in the command vehicle. Picture 2: German soldiers at a parade. Picture 3: German tanks driving through Poland. Picture 4: Tanks from the polish army. Picture 5: Polish army marching. Picture 6: Map of the German and sowjet attack. #ww2 #worldwar2 #zweiterweltkrieg #weltkrieg #worldwartwo #worldwartwo #poland #polisharmy #attackonpoland #1939 #germanarmy #wehrmacht #wehrmacht_ww2 #wehrmachtwaffenss #wehrmachthistory #krieg #panzer #war #polisharmy #armyhistory #weapons #attack #angriffskrieg #sowjetunion #udssr #russia #redarmy #russianarmy

Fall weiß. #ww2 #history #france #germany #wehrmacht #wehrmachthistory #germanarmy #ww2germany #germanmilitary #war #weapons #refugees #germanaircraft #luftwaffe #soldiers #zweiterweltkrieg #derzweiteweltkrieg #worldwar2 #worldwar #worldwartwo #geschichte #historyfacts #historyphoto #geschichtsfotografie #historygram #germanhistory #poland #fallweiss #attackonpoland

Operation Barbarossa #ww2 #history #war #worldwar2 #worldwartwo #udssr #sowjetunion #sowjet #wehrmacht #wehrmachthistory #partisanenlager #operationbarbarossa #ussr #sowjetarmee #germanarmy #ww2germany #germany #russia #stalin #weapons #weapons

Picture 1: Tiger I Picture 2-4: Tigers under construction. This hull rests on a jig. Assembly facility; the vehicles are fitted with the narrower transport tracks (1943) Picture 6: A Tiger I deployed to supplement the Afrika Korps operating in Tunisia, January 1943. #tiger #tigertank #germantiger #tank #tankhistory #panzer #deutschepanzer #tigerpanzer #history #geschichte #germantank #gernantanks #war #krieg #ww2 #zweiterweltkrieg #weltkrieg #worldwar2 #workdwartwo #germanarmy #armyhistory #weaponhistory #army #armyhistory #germany #armyhistorian

Picture 1: German pioneers build a temporary bridge. The rapid advance of the Wehrmacht in France triggers mass panic among the locals, more than six million people are fleeing south. Picture 2: Two refugees and one French soldier take cover. Fear- fulfilled they are looking in the sky after German low-flying aircraft. Picture 3: Flames erupt from one House in northern France Rouen. Where the German don't move on the ground the Luftwaffe is helping them with bombardment. Picture 4: Refugees walk next to abandoned scout tanks of the french army. The Wehrmacht captured in France many of these chariots and use them later campaigns. #ww2 #history #france #germany #wehrmacht #wehrmachthistory #attackonfrance #ww2france #germanarmy #ww2germany #germanmilitary #war #weapons #refugees #germanaircraft #luftwaffe #mg39 #pioniere #soldiers #zweiterweltkrieg #derzweiteweltkrieg #worldwar2 #worldwar #worldwartwo #geschichte #historyfacts #historyphoto #geschichtsfotografie #historygram #germanhistory