London 1940
London 1940
Berlin 1945
Berlin 1945
 bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Germany, © 2024 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 17 Jul 2024. ​
​Links to Big Pigeon's WWII Germany submodules: (above WWII Hub link shows all WWII Germany webpages)​  ​About the above links to WWII Germany submodules:
  • ​The MTO, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, included North Africa, Sicily, & the Italian mainland.
  • The ETO, European Theater of Operations included France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, & Germany.
  • 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 800 founding by Charlemagne 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 1918 in the chaos in Germany which accompanied the 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.
  • 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)
Maps from The Liberation Trilogy books are on-line: ** See also Big Pigeon's webpage WWII US > Web Sources > Germany.
** Sources for webpage images: (C/O = courtesy of)