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Wehrmacht: Encyclopedia - Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht (listen) ▶ (help·info) was the name of the armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. The Wehrmacht of World War II was comp...
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Wehrmacht: Encyclopedia Ii - Wehrmacht - War Years
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Powerful tank and air forces enabled quick successes during early stages of the war when nation after n...
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Wehrmacht: Encyclopedia Ii - Wehrmacht - War Crimes
While the predominant number of war crimes were attributed to Nazi organizations like the Schutzstaffel (SS), a number of Wehrmacht offic...
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Wehrmacht: Encyclopedia Ii - Wehrmacht - Command Structure
Legally, the Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht was Adolf Hitler in his capacity as Germany's head of state, a position he gained after ...
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Wehrmacht: Encyclopedia Ii - Wehrmacht - History
After World War I ended with the capitulation of the German empire the treaty of Versailles imposed severe restrictions on Germany's mili...
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Wehrmacht: Encyclopedia Ii - Wehrmacht - Background
The German word Wehrmacht (literally "defence force") was previously used in German in a generic sense, as a term describing the armed fo...
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