EndOfTheConflict

="D" Day and the liberation of France.=


 * Gold, Juno, Sword, Omaha, Utah beachers
 * Paris was Liberated
 * British, Canadian and American troops
 * French Underground
 * Germany knew an attack was coming, didn't know where from though.
 * 6/6/44 "d" day
 * The decision to invade france was agreed at the washington conference of May 1943 and plans were accepted at the Quebec conference in August.
 * End of June, Americans had captured the port of Cherbourg and over 300,000 German prisoners.
 * British forces captured Caen.

=Russian counter offensives 1944=


 * Zhukov - Stalin's main man for counter offensive
 * the Siege of Leningrad is finally broken on 27th Janurary
 * 5 Jan 1944 Soviet forces under General Konev move to recapture western Ukrain and the Crimea.
 * Zhukov first belorussian
 * Konev first Ukrainian front
 * Rokessovsky's second belorussian
 * Warsaw rising: August - October 1944
 * Early August, polish resistance uprising against german forces in Warsaw
 * Stalin's tactics were clear
 * Allow Germans to destroy Polish resistance
 * move in and destroy german forces
 * poland would then be under total soviet dominance.
 * The German and Romanian Forces defending the region are down to 200,000 men, 200 tanks and 150 aircraft.
 * June 22nd 1944, General Zhukov commences Operation Bagration.

=Final Defeat 1944-1945=


 * 8th May - Hitler committed suicide
 * Russian forces struck on several fronts across a distance of 1200kms from the Baltic in the North to the Caprathian Mountains in the North.
 * As the Russians advanced they were 'encouraged' to 'punish' the germans
 * The Battle of the Bulge
 * Operation Market Garden
 * Bad
 * Allied intel was poor
 * Enigma machine was useless due to the Germans using different frequencies
 * Outdated Maps
 * Good
 * US paratroopers 101st and 82nd airborne Eindhoven and Nijmegan
 * Turned into a massive Disaster.
 * May 1st - > Red flag was flying over the Reichstag building (USSR)
 * By mid Spetember Allied forces were taking control of belguim and the Netherlands; Brussels and Antwerp had already fallen.

=Nuremburg War Crimes trials=


 * 24 people trialled
 * Albert Speer sent to Spandav Prison for 20 years
 * 12 sentenced to death (of which 1 committed suicide - Josef Gobbels)
 * Walther Funk, Hitler's Minister for Economics was sentenced to life imprisonment
 * Experience of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia have shown this to have been a forlon hope.( the nuremburg trials didn't prevent future war crimes)
 * Martin Bormann was never captured and so was tried 'in absentia'