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	Battle Encyclopedia Article @ Hostilities.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Battles are, on the whole, made up of a multitude of individual combats and the individual will usually only experience a small part of the events.
		Battle of Megiddo, the first reliably documented battle, in the fifteenth century BC, actual discipline was instilled in both armies.
		Battle of Waterloo, some British officers were in doubt as to whether the day's events merited the title of "battle" or would be passed off as merely an "action".
	www.hostilities.org /encyclopedia/Battle (2553 words)

	World War II Encyclopedia Article @ Llanview.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Battle of the Bulge in December, the Western Allies crossed the Rhine River and linked up with their Soviet counterparts at the Elbe River in central Germany.
		Battle of the Coral Sea and decisively defeated in the
		Battle of Guadalcanal, both in the Southwest Pacific.
	www.llanview.org /encyclopedia/World_War_II (2805 words)

	ABOUT WORLD WAR II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Neither battle was succcessful and the failure of armour to reach the infantry in time at the Second Battle led to the loss of 700 men.
		Battle of Hurtgen Forest is name given to series of battles fought in the Hurtgen Forest, afterwards known to both Americans and Germans simply as the Hurtgenwald.
		Battle of Peleliu Like the bloody World War II island campaigns before it, Peleliu was a fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific.
	www.aboutww2.info /battles.html (20325 words)

	Battle of Halbe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was fought in the Spree Forest near the village of Halbe, south-east of Berlin, and was a part of the Battle for Berlin, known as the 'Berlin Offensive Operation' by the Soviet Army.
		Pipkorn, the commander of the other battle group, was killed during the battle, and von Luck taken prisoner by the Soviets on April 27.
		In the case of the battle of Halbe, the 1st GBAD contributed to the ability of 3rd Guards Army to continuously harass the encircled German forces with artillery fire, causing significant casualties to them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Halbe (3733 words)

	BBC - History - The Battle for Berlin in World War Two
		On 2 May 1945, after one of the most intense battles in human history, the guns at last stopped firing amongst the ruins of Berlin.
		Crucially, by the time that Germany re-emerged as a single and united nation in 1990, the megalomania that had brought death and destruction to the continent in the first half of the century had been well and truly purged.
		His aim was to discover new material on the battle for Berlin, following the success of his award-winning book on the battle of Stalingrad.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/worldwars/wwtwo/berlin_01.shtml (385 words)

	Florida Cracker: What's In A Name?
		The dispute in Germany came at the Halbe cemetery.
		The Battle of Halbe was all about generals defying Hitler's orders for them to bring their men to Berlin, and instead trying to lead their men west to American lines in order to surrender.
		In one sector alone, from the opposite bank, our Ninth Army saw the Elbe turn into the River Styx as soldiers and civilians took to the water in anything that would float, while thousands waited for their turn to cross over the debris of the demolished Tangermuende bridge.
	www.florida-cracker.org /archives/002463.html (253 words)

	Halbe Pocket - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Soviets, who occupied the village of Halbe, knew that Busse had to force his way through the village as this was directly on the route to the west and the only place for some miles where there were level crossings over the railway line running north to Berlin.Two breakout attempts were made.
		About 38% of the buildings in Halbe were destroyed in the fighting, and many of the remaining ones are covered with bullet and shrapnel marks.
		The battle site is about an hour's drive south of Berlin, and if you are ever in the area it is a fascinating place to visit.
	www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?t=131095 (908 words)

	Battle of Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The city's defenders surrendered on May 2, 1945, although some fighting continued until Nazi Germany's surrender on May 8th (May 9th to the USSR) 1945.
		It was not until May 8 when the last German troops, including Wilhelm Mohnke surrendered as a result of Germany's surrender.
		Battles and operations of World War II
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Berlin (3469 words)

	anglofritz; Remembrance of Things Present
		While thousands of Germans gathered just south of Berlin yesterday to protest a provocative neo-Nazi demonstration held to glorify fallen Wehrmacht soldiers of the Battle of Halbe, Chancellor Merkel and other government and diplomatic corps officials will be taking part in ceremonies in Berlin today marking Germany’s Volkstrauertag or People’s Day of Remembrance.
		Unlike these holidays, Volkstrauertag is always celebrated two Sundays before the beginning of Advent (the two major German churches also celebrate their own memorial festivals in November) and, more significantly of course, on ground zero of the country that carries the burden of responsibility for two of the bloodiest wars in history.
		And that somehow seems appropriate to me. That these zealots of the past have to wander aimlessly from one cemetery to the next, that they feel the need to have to appear on a day like Volkstrauertag, is just another reminder of what they are.
	www.anglofritz.com /2006/11/remembrance_of_things_present.html (368 words)

	Amazon.com: Battle East of Elsenborn: Books: William Cavanagh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Longest Battle: September 1944-February 1945: From Aachen to the Roer and Across by Harry Yeide
		The Battle East of Elsenborn closely examines the role of Oberstgruppenfuhrer Joseph 'Sepp' Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Army in the massive German winter counteroffensive.
		We know the eventual outcome of the battle, but the talented author Cavanagh through his skills as a story teller keeps your attention as if you have temporarily forgotten the ending.
	www.amazon.com /Battle-East-Elsenborn-William-Cavanagh/dp/1844151263 (1882 words)

	Battle of Berlin
		The battle lasted from late April 1945 until early May. Before it was over, Adolf Hitler committed suicide, and Germany surrendered five days after the battle ended.
		General Weidling, defence commandant of Berlin, surrendered the city to the Soviets on May 2.
		In the battle for the city the Soviets lost about 2,000 armoured vehicles, in good part due to an effective shoulder-firing rocket known as a Panzerfaust, mass numbers of which were supplied to German civilians, though countermeasures such as armor and wire skirts were being deployed.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-uniforms/berlin.htm (2757 words)

	Overthrow.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Halbe, Germany -- More than 2,000 National Socialists battled Jews, communists and the police after a group of rabble tried to block a rally to commemorate the 28,000 soldiers who died defending Berlin from the April 1945 Soviet offensive to capture it.
		A relatively small group of Jews and Bolsheviks took over the cemetary at Halbe, Germany, just prior to the annual National Socialist Day of Mourning, which commemorates the fall of Berlin and the German Army's valiant effort to defend the Reich.
		The communists and Jews were forced to flee the scene and the National Socialists, their honor intact, eventually yielded control of the cemetary back to police.
	www.overthrow.com /lsn/news.asp?articleID=8665 (436 words)

	From Nazi's death camps to Soviet gulag
		When the battles started in the west on Oct 4 that year the war, or the fighting part of it, was swiftly over for young Lev as the Nazis launched a devastating attack on the rear of the Soviet front.
		So began Mr Mishchenko's real battle, that of survival as a prisoner of war at various Nazi camps.
		Up to 60,000 Germans and Soviets died in the fierce Battle of Halbe in a pine forest, just days before Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1394814/posts (1139 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The last major battle was the Prague Offensive on May 6â“May 11, 1945, when the Soviet Army with the help of Polish, Romanian and Czechoslovak forces defeated the parts of Army Group Centre which continued to resist in Czechoslovakia.
		In many areas of the city, vengeful Soviet troops (usually rear echelon units) looted, raped an estimated 100,000 women and murdered civilians for several weeks (see under Marta Hillers and Red Army atrocities).
		Ziemke, Earl F., Battle For Berlin: End Of The Third Reich, NY:Ballantine Books, London:Macdomald & Co, 1969.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Battle_of_Berlin (3220 words)

	Carnival of German-American Relations - Promoting trans-atlantic relations
		I learned early that if people are given the textbooks for free, attendance drops off and [...]
		While thousands of Germans gathered just south of Berlin yesterday to protest a provocative neo-Nazi demonstration held to glorify fallen Wehrmacht soldiers of the Battle of Halbe, Chancellor Merkel and other government and diplomatic corps officials will be taking part in ceremonies in Berlin today [...]
		USA Erklärt about Army Strong und die germanischen Plätzchen
	america-germany.atlanticreview.org /archives/... (616 words)

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