Battle of Kursk, from July 5 till August 23, 1943, unsuccessful German assault on the Soviet salient around the city of Kursk in western Russia during World War II. The salient was a bulge in the Soviet lines that stretched 150 miles (240 km) from north to south and protruded 100 miles (160 km) westward into the German lines…. Read more »
Martin Gottfried Weiss was born in Weiden in der Oberpfalz. His father worked for the Royal Bavarian State Railways. He had two sisters and was raised as a Catholic. After school he continued his education at a mechanical engineering school in Landshut. He finished school in 1924 and worked as intern in an ironwork. Later he worked for… Read more »
The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Polish nationals carried out by the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) , the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. Originally, the term “Katyn massacre”, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre, referred to the massacre at Katyn Forest, which was discovered first and was the largest execution of… Read more »
The operational command of Einsatzgruppe B, attached to the Army Group Center, was established under the command of SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe a few days after the German attack on the Soviet positions in eastern Poland code-named Operation Barbarossa. Einsatzgruppe B departed from the occupied city of Poznań (Posen) on 24 June 1941, with 655 men from the Security Police, Gestapo, Kripo, SD, Waffen-SS and the 2nd Company of… Read more »
The Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, also known as the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland or The Ravna Gora Movement, commonly known as the Chetniks was a World War II movement in Yugoslavia led by Draža Mihailović , an anti-Axis movement in their long-term goals which engaged in marginal resistance activities for limited periods.They also engaged in tactical or selective collaboration with the occupying forces for… Read more »