🔗=======================> Key High-Level WWII Links <======================🔗
Module: WWII Dead WWII Hub WWII US WWII Japan WWII Germany
Submodule: Roster Sources MTO ETO
🔗============================> The World War II Germany Module <===========================🔗
subpages: WWII Germany Overview Battle of the Atlantic The Eastern Front The MTO The ETO
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subpages: WWII Germany Overview Battle of the Atlantic The Eastern Front The MTO The ETO
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bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Germany, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 2 Jul 2025
Big Pigeon's WWII Germany module summarizes United States involvement in the German component of World War II.
Big Pigeon's WWII Germany module summarizes United States involvement in the German component of World War II.
About the above WWII Germany Hub:
About my page heading "The Third Reich": The Third Reich, in German Das Dritte Reich, was the term often used by the German government for the 1933–1945 regime dominated by the NAZI party and headed by Adolf Hitler. In this view of Germany history:
- The MTO includes North Africa, Sicily, and the Italian mainland.
- The ETO includes France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Germany.
- Each of The MTO and The ETO main pages includes a list of subpages.
- Some webpages are incomplete.
About my page heading "The Third Reich": The Third Reich, in German Das Dritte Reich, was the term often used by the German government for the 1933–1945 regime dominated by the NAZI party and headed by Adolf Hitler. In this view of Germany history:
- The First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted from its medievial founding to its 1806 dissolution during the Napoleonic era.
- The Second Reich was the German Empire, founded in 1871 under the leadership of Bismarck and dissolved in in the chaos in Germany which accompanied the 1918 end of World War I.
Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII Germany webpage:
** My major print source, The Liberation Trilogy is a series of three military history books about the United States' involvement in World War II, written by American author Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt & Co. These three books are not on the web.
** Sources for webpage images: (C/O = courtesy of)
** My major print source, The Liberation Trilogy is a series of three military history books about the United States' involvement in World War II, written by American author Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt & Co. These three books are not on the web.
- An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 (2002)
- The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 (2007)
- The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 (2013)
- http://liberationtrilogy.com/books/army-at-dawn/maps-from-an-army-at-dawn/images-of-maps-from-an-army-at-dawn/ - access maps from An Army at Dawn.
- http://liberationtrilogy.com/books/day-of-battle/maps-from-the-day-of-battle/images-of-maps-from-the-day-of-battle/ - access maps from The Day of Battle.
- http://liberationtrilogy.com/books/guns-at-last-light/maps-from-the-guns-at-last-light/images-for-maps-from-the-guns-at-last-light/ - access maps from The Guns at Last Light.
** Sources for webpage images: (C/O = courtesy of)
- London 1940, webpage header photo, https://www.vintag.es/2021/12/london-during-the-blitz.html - This shows the aftermath of a German bomb blast during the 1940 Blitz. C/O Vintage Everyday, https://www.vintag.es.
- Berlin 1945, webpage header photo, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Berlin-_the_Capture_and_Aftermath_of_War_1945-1947_C5284.jpg/1024px-Berlin-_the_Capture_and_Aftermath_of_War_1945-1947_C5284.jpg - This show the aftermath of the massive Allied bombing of Berlin late in WWII.
