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  Operation Silver Fox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This operation was aimed at the capture of the town of Kandalaksha, by the White Sea in the Karelia region, in the process tying down troops from the Soviet Northern Front who would otherwise be sent to defend against Platinfuchs and to cut Murmansk and Kola Peninsula from the rest of the Soviet Union.
The operation was successful, the appearance of a German Gebirgskorps on their border coming as a surprise to the Russians.
The failure of Silberfuchs was to have a lasting effect on the course of the war.
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 Operation Renntier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After the German occupation of Norway the planning for the operation started in August 13, 1940 and was finalized in October.
The plans for the operation were used at the start of Operation Barbarossa.
The operation was followed up by Operation Platinfuchs which was an attack by the two division against Murmansk as a part of a larger operation called Silberfuchs.
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 Encyclopedia: Operation Barbarossa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the German codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on June 22, 1941.
The climax of Operation Barbarossa came when Army Group Centre, already short in supplies because of the mud in October, was ordered to advance to Moscow; forward units came within sight of the spires of the Kremlin in early December 1941.
Operation Silberfuchs, the attack on the Soviet Arctic.
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 Continuation War
Accordingly, after Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa, June 22, 1941), the Red Army's attack on Finland, harboring not yet unleashed German forces, can be seen as a preemptive or preventive attack aiming to protect Russian civilians and troops: Through control of Finland's territory, the threat against Leningrad (i.e.
After Nazi Germany's assault on Scandinavia in April (Operation Weserübung), Finland was physically isolated from her traditionally trade markets in the West.
Operation Barbarossa was planned as a blitzkrieg lasting a few weeks.
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 Operation Polarfuchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Operation Polarfuchs was conducted by the German XXXVI Corps consisting of both German and Finnish troops against Soviet defencesat Salla.
The operation took placed during the initial phase of the Continuation War and as a part of Operation Barbarossa.
Polarfuchs was a part of the larger Operation Silberfuchs which aimed at capturing the Soviet port at Murmansk.
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 Great Patriotic War Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As part of this, Operation Shamil was executed, a plan whereby a group of Brandenburger commandos dressed up as Soviet NKVD troops to destabilise Maikop's defenses and allow the 1st Panzer Army to enter the oil town with little opposition.
The neighbouring Lvov-Sandomierz operation was launched on 17 July 1944, rapidly routing the German forces in the western Ukraine.
The East Prussian operation, though often overshadowed by the Vistula-Oder operation and the later battle for Berlin, was in fact one of the largest and costliest operations fought by the Red army through the war.
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 Continuation War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet (Operation Barbarossa) is closely connected to the Continuation beginning.
Accordingly after Germany's attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa June 22 1941) the Red Army 's attack on Finland harboring not yet German forces can be seen as a preemptive or preventive attack aiming to protect Russian civilians troops: Through control of Finland's territory the against Leningrad (i.e.
After Nazi Germany's assault on Scandinavia in (Operation Weserübung) Finland was physically isolated from her trade markets in the West.
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 SS Division Nord - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was transferred to Finnish Lapland prior to Operation Barbarossa as part of the German XXXVI Corps under AOK Norwegen.
In July 1941 the division took part in Operation Silberfuchs with the German 169th Division and the Finnish 6th Division.
The division was later attached to the Finnish III Corps operating in the Kiestinki area.
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 Read about Operation Barbarossa at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Operation Barbarossa and learn about Operation ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Third Reich in that the failure of Operation Barbarossa arguably resulted in the eventual overall defeat of Nazi Germany.
Eastern Front which was opened by Operation Barbarossa would become the biggest theatre of war in World War II, with some of the largest and most brutal battles, terrible loss of life, and miserable conditions for Russians and Germans alike.
It is often proposed that the fatal design flaw of the operation was the postponement from the original date of May 15 because Hitler wanted to intervene against an anti-German overthrow in Yugoslavia and British advances against
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 Operation Barbarossa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The failure of Operation Barbarossa arguably resulted in the eventual overall defeat of Nazi Germany, and was at least a turning point for the fortunes of Hitler's Third Reich.
The Soviet Union still had vast reserves in the eastern part of the country and managed to move its war industry to the Urals, Central Asia, and Siberia, so the war could have continued for a long time.
In fact military operations were slowed by these factors, but much more so on the German side than on the Soviet side.
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 Continuation War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Now he saw the value of Finland as a base for his forthcoming invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), and perhaps also the military value of the Finnish army.
Through military contacts, Germans hinted to Finns that they could possibly persuade the Germans to obtain Soviet concessions; and the Finnish general Aksel Airo delivered in late May 1941 five alternate border rearrangement drafts to the Germans, who should then propose the best they could bargain to the Soviets.
PM Hansson and FM Günther found however, that the political support in the National Unity Government and within the Social Democratic organizations turned out to be insufficient, particularly after Mannerheim's July 10 Order of the Day, and even more so after Finland by deeds had commenced a war of conquest.
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 Operation Silberfuchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Operation Renntier (Occupation of Finnish Petsamo by German forces)
Operation Blaufuchs 1 (Transport of German 169th Division and SS Division Nord through the Baltic sea to Finnish ports and from there to the area around Rovaniemi)
Operation Blaufuchs 2 (Transport of German corps staff and corps units from Norway to Finland)
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 Operation Barbarossa - Linix Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the German codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which commenced on June 22, 1941.
It is often proposed that the fatal design flaw of the operation was the postponement from the original date of May 15 because Hitler wanted to intervene against an anti-German overthrow in Yugoslavia and British advances against Mussolini's Italy in Greece.
Viktor Suvorov in his book "Suicide" has argued that, even if the Germans had met no resistance at all, their troops still could not have moved fast enough to meet the objectives of Operation Barbarossa on time.
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 ZWEITER WELTKRIEG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
April fand auf Beschluss des Obersten Alliierten Kriegsrats die Operation „Wilfried' statt, bei dem die Gewässer vor Norwegen vermint und weitere Truppen ins Land gebracht werden sollten.
Juni (Operation Bagration) brachen die Angreifer durch die Verteidigungsfront und kesselten große deutsche Verbände bei Witebsk und Bobruisk ein.
Wegen schwerer Schäden, die sie in der Korallensee erlitten hatten, konnten 2 Flugzeugträger der japanischen Flotte nicht eingesetzt werden; dennoch standen Vizeadmiral Chuichi Nagumo für den Angriff auf Midway 4 große Flugzeugträger zur Verfügung.
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 info: Operation_Barbarossa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The 1941 campaign includes the operation Barbarossa, the German Invasion of the Soviet Union, and the end of the war in...
Operation Barbarossa: The Failure of Nazi Ideology at the Eastern Front by Paul Fleming, Jr.
Germany's surprise assault on the Soviet Union in June 1941, Operation Barbarossa, aimed at nothing less than the destruction of the Soviet Union.
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 AOK Norwegen - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was directly under the command of the German high command, the OKW.
AOK Norwegen took part in Operation Barbarossa in 1941.
The plan was codenamed Operation Silberfuchs (Silver Fox).
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Operation Weserübung, Finland was physically isolated from her traditional trade markets in the West.
So it was no wonder that the average Finn feared that the Winter War had produced only a short delay of the same fate.
Race issues were sources of particular concern: the Finns were not viewed favorably by the Nazi race theorists.
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 Russlandfeldzug 1941–1945 - Wikipedia
Endziel der Operation sei die Abschirmung gegen das asiatische Russland auf der allgemeinen Linie Wolga–Archangelsk, das heißt, die Besetzung der gesamten europäischen Sowjetunion.
Eine weitere Offensive im Sommer, die Operation Zitadelle, sollte den Frontbalkon bei Kursk ausräumen, musste jedoch auf dem Höhepunkt der Schlacht wegen der Landung der Alliierten auf Sizilien abgebrochen werden.
Mit dem Beginn der Operation Jassy-Kischinew im August marschierte die Rote Armee in Rumänien ein und vernichtete die (neue) deutsche 6.
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 EASTERN FRONT (WORLD WAR II) FACTS, INFORMATIONS AND TRADES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But all in all the Soviets could absorb the fearful losses of men and equipment that they did, and even though German casualties were much lower their strategic advance in "Citadel" had been halted.
Under the impression of the unsuccesful counter attack operations in the south the red army started the strong offensive operation in the northern Oriel salient and achieved a breaktrough in the back of the german 9.
Also worried by the Allies landing in Sicily on 10_July, Hitler took fright and withdrew the II.
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 WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: June
June 5th, 1944: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France, is postponed for one day because of rough seas in the English Channel.
June 17th, 1943: The British battleships Valiant and Warspite are transferred from Scapa Flow to Oran and Alexandria in North Africa in preparation for Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily.
June 28th, 1944: In Normandy, Operation Epsom designed to break through the German defenses near Caen is halted by the fierce resistance of the I.
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 physics - Eastern Front (World War II)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Operation Winter Storm, with three transferred Panzer divisions, got going briskly from Kotelnikovo towards the Aksai river but bogged down 65 km (40 miles) short of its goal.
At 02:41 on the morning of May 7, 1945, at the SHAEF headquaters, German Chief-of-Staff General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender documents for all German forces to the Allies.
It included the phrase All forces under German control to cease active operations at 2301 hours Central European time on 8th May 1945.
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 Teacher told to drop Star of David (Norway - might offend Muslims)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was the first operation in military history which used the combined powers of a nation's army, navy and air force.
The kampfgruppe participated in Operation "Silberfuchs" (Silver Fox), the liberation of part of Soviet-occupied Finland and the invasion of the Soviet Karelia.
The 6th SS Gebirgs Division then formed the rear guard for the three German corps withdrawing from Finland in "Operation Birke" (Birch) and from September to November 1944, marched 1,600 kilometers to Mo-I-Rana, Norway, where it entrained for the southern end of the country.
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 Zweiter Weltkrieg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mai begann die Operation Dynamo mit der Evakuierung von über 7500Soldaten.
Mehrere Unternehmen in Richtung Murmansk (Operation Silberfuchs, Platinfuchs) und auf die Murman-Bahn(Operation Polarfuchs) blieben erfolglos.
Juni (Operation "Bagration") brachen die Angreifer durchdie Verteidigungsfront und kesselten große deutsche Verbände bei Witebsk und Bobruisk ein.
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 Operation Barbarossa - Information
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 Operation Barbarossa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The failure of Operation Barbarossa arguably resulted in the eventual overall defeat of Nazi Germany, and was at least a turning point for the fortunes of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
Before implementing Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were on friendly terms, having signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact shortly before the German and Soviet invasion of Poland.
This page was last modified 15:05, 8 November 2005.
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 World War 1 and 2 - Operation Barbarossa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
World War 1 and 2 - Operation Barbarossa
The Wehrmacht would continue to be dangerous right up until they lost Operation Citadel.
When these favorable conditions gave way to harsh conditions of the fall and winter they failed.
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 Liste von militärischen Operationen - definition erklärung bedeutung glossar zu Liste von militärischen Operationen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
**Operation Alberich Rückzug der deutschen Truppen 1917 in die Siegfriedstellung
**Operation Dynamo Evakuierung des britischen Expeditionskorps bei Dünkirchen
**Operation Weserübung Invasion der Deutschen in Norwegen und Dänemark
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 Russlandfeldzug 1941 - 1945 - netlexikon
Es gelte, die im westlichen Rußland stehende Masse des russischen Heeres zu vernichten und eine Linie zu erreichen, von der aus die russische Luftwaffe deutsches Gebiet nicht mehr angreifen könne.
Endziel der Operation sei die Abschirmung gegen das asiatische Rußland auf der allgemeinen Linie Wolga – Archangelsk, das heißt die Besetzung der gesamten europäischen Sowjetunion.
Trotz der bereits angelaufenen Vorbereitungen wurde am 10.
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