whiterabbit Germany, under Hitler’s leadership, despite the numerous bombings it had been suffering in those years, did not want to give up; on the contrary, it ordered the German people total mobilisation, even calling to arms the very young. At this point,...
whiterabbit Italy was determined to turn over a new leaf, but 1944 began with US forces landing at Anzio on 22 January. The Germans opposed a tenacious resistance on the Gustav Line, which was strongly hit: eventually, on 15 February, the abbey of Montecassino was...
whiterabbit In January 1943, on the occasion of the Conference held in Casablanca, Morocco, the Allies, who had already signed the United Nations Pact pledging to remain faithful to the Atlantic Charter, decided that the next step would start from Sicily, and that...
whiterabbit After being attacked by surprise by Japan in May 1942, the Americans began to stop the Japanese advance in the Pacific. Between 4 and 7 June, during the Battle of Midway, the USA obtained an important success against the Japanese fleets, effectively...
whiterabbit 1941 was a crucial year for the fate of the conflict; the fronts were multiplying and even the number of victims was beginning to rise. Trampling on the Molotov Pact, Hitler began the Operation Barbarossa on 22 June, which led to the invasion of the...
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