Wehrmacht

Examples of Wehrmacht in the following topics:

• Blitzkrieg

  • The Wehrmacht strategy was more in line with Vernichtungsgedanken a focus on envelopment to create pockets in broad-front annihilation.
  • The Wehrmacht became overstretched, although winning operationally, it could not inflict a decisive defeat as the durability of the Soviet Union's manpower, resources, industrial base and aid from the Western Allies began to take effect.
  • In July 1943 the Wehrmacht conducted Operation Zitadelle (Citadel) against a salient at Kursk that was heavily defended by Soviet troops.

• Slowing Momentum

  • In November 1942, the Wehrmacht and the Italian Army retreated to Tunisia, where they fought the Americans and the British in the Tunisia Campaign (November 17, 1942–May 13, 1943).

• September 1, 1939

  • As the Wehrmacht advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German border to more established lines of defence to the east.
  • Soldiers of the German Wehrmacht tearing down the border crossing between Poland and the Free City of Danzig, 1 September 1939.

• Operation Barbarossa

  • The Red Army repelled the Wehrmacht's strongest blows and forced the unprepared Germany into a war of attrition.
  • But in spite of the progress made, the Wehrmacht was not equipped for winter warfare, and the bitter cold caused severe problems for their guns and equipment.

• The Battle of Stalingrad

  • The heavy losses inflicted on the German Wehrmacht make it arguably the most strategically decisive battle of the whole war.
  • The Red Army had the initiative, and the Wehrmacht was in retreat.

• German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship

  • During the western invasion of Poland, the German Wehrmacht had taken control of the Lublin Voivodeship and eastern Warsaw Voivodeship - territories which according to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact were in the Soviet sphere of influence.

• The Collapse of Nazi Germany

  • The units consisted of several depleted, disorganized Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS divisions, along with poorly trained Volkssturm and Hitler Youth members.

• The Allied Push

  • The heavy losses inflicted on the German Wehrmacht make it arguably the most strategically decisive battle of the whole war.

• The North African Front

  • In addition, as Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, had long been demanding a second front be opened to engage the Wehrmacht and relieve pressure on the Red Army, it provided some degree of relief for the Red Army on the Eastern Front by diverting Axis forces to the African theatre, tying them up and destroying them there.

• The Allied Push to Berlin

  • These units consisted of several depleted and disorganized Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS divisions, along with poorly trained Volkssturm and Hitler Youth members.