World War II summary: The carnage of World War II was unprecedented and brought the world closest to the term “total warfare.” On average 27,000 people were killed each day between September 1, 1939, until the formal surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945. Western technological advances had turned upon itself, bringing about the most destructive war in… Read more »
Schwarz was born 27 November 1875 in Gunzburg, the seventh of eight children born to a master baker and his wife. He was educated to a high school level at the Günzburger vocational training school. Schwarz married Bertha Breher on 26 August 1899. From 1900 to 1924, except for the war years of 1914 to 1918,… Read more »
Operation Reinhard became the code name for the German plan to murder the approximately two million Jews residing in the so-called Generalgouvernement . The Generalgouvernement was the part of German-occupied Poland not directly annexed to Germany, attached to German East Prussia, or incorporated into the German-occupied Soviet Union. Though initiated in the autumn of 1941,… Read more »
From the Beginning… Canada entered the 1939-1945 War on 10th September 1939. Within two months the first contingents of Canadian troops arrived in the United Kingdom to supplement the British Expeditionary Forces (BEF). Forestalled by the evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk and the Channel ports, Canada’s role became one of defence of the… Read more »
In the last German offensive of World War II, three German Armies conducted a surprise attack along a 50 miles front in the Ardennes beginning on December 15th 1944, and quickly overtook thin U.S.lines On the second day of the ‘Battle of the Bulge,’ a truck convoy of Battery B of the 285th Field Artillery… Read more »