HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014 Lecture Eighteen: Germany in World War II

War Begins The Conquest of Poland From “Sitzkrieg” to Conquest in the West From Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain The Balkans and Greece North Africa Operation Barbarossa Conduct of the War in Russia

The Course of War Hitler as Strategist Japan and the United States The First Reverse Renewed Offensive and the Path to Stalingrad U-Boat War in the Atlantic The Search for a Secret Weapon -- Jet Aircraft, V-1 and V-2 Rockets

The Home Front The Problem of Supplying War Albert Speer and the Armaments Ministry Forced Labor The Beginning of the Bombing Campaign The Destruction of Hamburg and Cologne

Internal Resistance Niemoeller, Bonhoeffer and the Bekennende Kirche The White Rose July 20 Plot Hitler’s Increasing Instability

Collapse The Russian Advance German Defeat in North Africa and Italy D-Day, the Ring Closes Intensified Bombing Campaign Failure of Military Industry Battle of Berlin and End of the Nazis