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Great Purge. Great Purge. Part of the purges of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. People of Vinnytsia searching through the exhumed victims of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943. Location. Soviet Union, East Turkestan, Mongolian People's Republic. Date. 1936–1938.
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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.
The plan, prepared in the years 1939–1942, was part of Adolf Hitler's and the Nazi movement's Lebensraum policy and a fulfilment of the Drang nach Osten (English: Drive towards the East) ideology of German expansion to the east, both of them part of the larger plan to establish the New Order.
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 ...
