... type of a fascist party emerged with the Carlists in 1937 under Franco's command. Franco was assisted with foreign support from fascist Mussolini who provided Spain with naval and air force units. Hitler provided air support and ground support including tanks, pilots and artillery equipment. Franco was extensively elevated by their foreign contributions. The Republicans controlled the ideology of Communism in Spain. The ... Republicans did not have an army but they did have some support from the Spanish air force and the navy. Foreign involvement was not essential, leaving the Republica...

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... and Catalonia were the tactical creation of German military strategists(Paz). It involved 100,000 men and over six hundred Italian and German planes, and delivered continuous bombing from the air and a Panzer-style massed tank assault at key points. The bombing of Guernica was also a taste of things to come, as it was the Blitzkrieg attack in its infancy. The ... Madrid and participated in the fall of Málaga in February 1937. During the Spanish Civil War Italy sent 80,000 men, of whom almost 6,000 belonged to the Italian Air Force, 45,000 to the army and 29,000 to the fascist militia. ...

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... to the Atlantic Wall's defenses. Because he believed that the current coastal fortifications were completely insufficient, Rommel immediately began to reinforce them. His main concern at the time was the air power of the Allied forces. Rommel had seen how severe this threat could potentially end up being when he saw it for himself while he was fighting against the Americans ... ...

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... making up the Sixth Army, a rough amount of 165,000 had passed away or suffered death in Stalingrad, while a mere 29,000 were casualties and had been attempted to be air lifted out. The 91,000 survivors, including 24 of the generals and 2,500 officers, of which only 5000 was seen to walk home. The major suffering that Germany had to ... ...

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... . The significant land loss helped toward in the direction of preventing Germany from ever rising again. Germany's military was limited to just 100,000 soldiers, and banned to retain an air force. Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles was also known as the "War Guilt Clause," which required "Germany [to] accept the responsibility of Germany and her ... ...

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... war that began in June 1940 had caused several thousands of young men to be drafted and perish in Russia or Africa or the Balkans. With that war had come air raids and civilians killed in their own homes. But in 1943, we see that the war acquired a new dimension, for after the German occupation of Italy, children and elders could ... ...

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... limited to 100,000 and conscription banned. The navy was also to be reduced to a coastal force and the building of submarines and battleships were forbidden so too, was a German air force. She was also to lose European territory including Alsace-Lorraine, Eupen, Malmedy, North Schleswig, West Prussia, Poznania, and parts of Upper Silesia and Memel, and all her non-European ... ...

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... the world, but this did not stop "Il Duce". With the people of Italy behind him, Mussolini moved onward in his quest for domination, but lacked modern technology in the air, and at sea. This halted any further aspirations of world power. The bloodshed caused by the fascist government, is a direct result of ultra-nationalism, and a militaristic leader who would sacrifice ... ...

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... nations. With this in mind the leaders had to greatly reduce and demoralize the German people by first and formost stating that the Germans were not to have a navy or air force. This could be seen as a big blow to Germany whose navy was second only to Englands and one of its most prized possestions at that period of time. This ... ...

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... confront someone like himself, the pacifist west finally had no options left but to fight. A few days later, in September 1st, 1939, the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, the German army and air force, attacked Poland in a way that shocked the world with its speed and efficiency. This was Blitzkrieg ("lightning war"), a new powerful tactic that coordinated and concentrated the power and mobility ... ...

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... 1 and was punished by the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles determined by the triumphant powers Britain, France and America. The treaty resulted in the country being stripped of its air force, thirteen percent of its land and all of its overseas colonies including Alsace and Lorraine. They were forced to pay an enormous sum of L6,600 million for compensation ... ...

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... strictly dedicated to and inhibited by Nazism. The institutions by the means of propaganda with the support of judiciary and police, created a situation in which "national socialism is the only air we (they) breath" (as instituted and stated by Goebbels) . The SS and the Gestapo were two terror organisations established by the Nazis to maintain tight control over the German people ... ...

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