JSA Lecture April 9 04 09 2014 Stalin is not ready for war and he does not want it But Germany can help him On August 23 1939 Hitler and Stalin have signed an agreement Poland is going to be divided and erased off the map War is coming September 1 1939 World War II begins The treaty of Versailles was just a 20 year peace Everyone is thinking about trench s and no mans land No type of war the Blitzkrieg the lightning war German tanks stream out of a Germany Poland is not prepared for this The British and French say or we will declare war September 3 1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany The Stuka Bombers had a special trumpet attached to their wheels that would create a terrible shrieking sound The purpose of these were to attack behind the polish not in front Soviet Union is watching stunned on Sept 16 1939 they attack from the other side The French and British expect the Schlieffen plan again On May 10 1940 the Germans attack all across the Netherlands Belgium and Northern France The British Government falls That night Winston Churchill is called to create a new government Now he s in charge he is the prime minister The Netherlands have minimal army they will be conquered quickly British and French Troops charge into Belgium There are German troops coming through but their has been a tweak in the German plan The British and French did not think the Ardennes Forest could be used because they were too many trees but the Germans thought ahead and cut those trees so the tanks could come through On May 26th Winston Churchill orders all soldiers must leave they must get out May 27th the beginning of Operation Dynamo Churchill his demanding boats to get these soldiers out 350 000 troops manage to escape through Operation Dynamo They have to live everything there artillery equipment The Germans turn their attention to southern France June 22nd 1940 the French surrender the Germans got everything Britain is alone and now Hitler turns his attention to an invasion on the British The British navy is huge so it is scare for the Germans The head of the German Airfare Luftwaffe says we will destroy them from the skies This is called the Blitz This was the lightning the bombs were falling on the ships The British have some of the advantages here The British planes are newer RAF The Royal Air Force planes are new Better equipment 2nd advantage they have a radar they could find the German planes when they came in 3rd the Germans broke the German military code They could create quite a good defense The Germans did not know which one to destroy they never People in the cities went down in the bunkers at night and came back to the focused top in the morning The blitz ends in May of 1941 Time for the Slavs Hitler orders the plan operation Barbarossa June 22 1941 Almost 5 million German troops It is going to be massive It is supposed to start in May but their was a delay There were problems in Greece and Yugoslavia So Hitler had to send troops down there Starts 6 weeks later 3 goals for Hitler Leningrad founder of the Soviet Union Moscow Southern Soviet Union has the OIL Germans Identified they would be fighting another 5 million Stalin has been told that the Germans are going to attack Stalin has not prepared them and he thinks he is best friends with Hitler Soviet supply trains are going into Germany as Germans are going into Soviet Union The Soviets are losing ground August of 1941 the Germans have taken 5 million prisoners the original estimate however they total miscalculated there were still 10 million soviet union soldiers left The Einzatsgruppen the German police They kill 1 and a half million Jews The United States August of 1941 they are involved in the war by providing supplies to British and Soviet Union Lend Lease act we can not give anything to them we can lend it to them it was passed in spring of 1941 The US is not in yet but Roosevelt wants them in December 7th 1941 the Japs bomb Pearl Harbor The US naval base Germany and Japan have alliance but Japan did the attacking For no reason Hitler declares war on the US a couple days after Pearl Harbor Now you have what Winston Churchill calls THE GRAND ALLIANCE Britain Soviet Union and US The Germans planned for 3 months against the Soviet Union Germans had no winter clothing Hitler thought it lowered morale By December 1941 and these soldiers are in there summer vest The Germans realize they cannot win the war That moment is the failure of Operations of Barbarossa The focus is no longer on victory The focus now is getting rid of the bad blood the Jews By December 1941 we begin to build the main death camps Chelmo Majfanek Belzer Sobibor Treblunka Auschwitz The Holocaust is here So much is done by the end of 1943 Early 1944 Auschwitz is the only one left Almost 4 5 million dead by 1944 The GERMANS DO CHANGE THEIR FOCUS IT IS NOT ABOUT VICTORY AND WAR IT IS ABOUT THIS SITUATION TO RID OF THE JEWS The Germans go directly for Stalingrad in 1942 The Soviets giving up very slowly The Soviets have been drawing them in On the outside the Russians are cutting German communication Soviets go around the Germans The German general asks Hitler to retreat and he says no That German army went from 1 million troops to 0 During this the British and Americans have cleared all of Africa troops And they are invading Italy Italy surrenders and join the war on the sides of the British and Americans Hitler orders a bombing on Mussolini prison and he gets him out and makes him the dictator of Northern Italy Churchill does not want to go across France Churchill is already thinking about the end of the war The quicker we go into France the higher casualties we get June 6 1944 Operation overload Normandy beach They have to land in occupied territory 1 5 million men are going to have to go into Germany Britain and the US throw everything they got at Germany June 6 the men go in their craft they come to the landing German machine guns open fire 10s of thousands hit in that first day French British Canadian American all here in on Normandy beach July and August forces push Germany far back Paris is free in August of 1944 The war is moving towards end They begins to invade and destroy all those death camps The Germans still do not give up They want to make sure they get rid of all the Jews FDR pass away on April 12 1945 Truman is not ready for this On April 30th 1945 Hitler kills himself The final battle is going on and there is a final shake A handshake on