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Deaths: 681,692 executions and 116,000 deaths in the Gulag system (official figures) 700,000 to 1.2 million (estimated): Perpetrators: Joseph Stalin, the NKVD (Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, Lavrentiy Beria, Ivan Serov and others), Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrey Vyshinsky, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Robert Eikhe and others
Why was Adolf Hitler significant? How did Adolf Hitler rise to power? Why did Adolf Hitler start World War II? Who were Adolf Hitler’s most important officers? How did Adolf Hitler die?
From late 1943 on, Hitler’s strategy, which from a political standpoint remains inexplicable to most Western historians, was to strengthen the German forces in western Europe at the expense of those on the Eastern Front.
Over the course of the operation, over 3.8 million personnel of the Axis powers—the largest invasion force in the history of warfare —invaded the western Soviet Union, along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with 600,000 motor vehicles and over 600,000 horses for non-combat operations.
In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels designed the massive propaganda machine with the objective to sell Nazi ideology to the German public, as if it were a brand (O’Shaughnessy, 2009). Other totalitarian regimes, such as the communist governments of Lenin’s Soviet Union and Mao’s China, relied on the careful regulation of information and government propaganda to develop new cultural identities and mobilize the masses behind that identity.
In 1943, a year before the Nazi regime unleashed its reign of terror, the British government learned that Germany was developing long-range rockets. Concerned by the military implications of ...
Built in central Germany’s underground Mittelwerk facility then shipped north to Peenemünde, MW 18014’s mission began when its 4,000-rpm turbopump forced fuel and oxidizer into the combustion ...
