Introduces the 4t presentation, "Sieg im Osten?" about Hitler's war against the USSR, 1941-42.

1. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 4
Hitler Victorious, Sieg im Osten?, 1941-1942

2. Sessions remaining:
Hitler Brought Down; Closing the Ring,
1943-44
Hitler Brought Down; Nemesis, 1944-45

3. For Further Study
Antony Beevor. Stalingrad, NYC : Penguin,
1998
Saul Friedländer. The Years of
Extermination; Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945. NYC: Harper Collins, 2007.
(through Part III, Chap. 7, to p. 402)
John Keegan. The Second World War. Part II,
pp. 127-239.
Kershaw, vol II, Chaps. 8 - 11, pp.339-557.

5. Key points from Session 3
the conquest of Poland moved Hitler into new territory,
Kershaw’s “Licensing Barbarism” from which there was no
turning back
Polish gentile leadership, Polish Jews, and German “life
unworthy of living” were objects of criminal mass murder
tensions developed between the army and the “security
forces,” Einsatzgruppen, SD, SS, Ordnungspolizei
the invasion of Denmark and Norway was the first
successful example of combined operations
the western offensive, Fall Gelb, devastated the allies and
brought Hitler to the zenith of his prestige at home
the Battle of Britain was “a damn close run
thing” (Wellington about Waterloo)

7. The
Eagle
Special Edition
Condor Legion
at the Front!
German Volunteers fight for Spain

8. Recruit practicing the Prussian Goosestep

9. Berghof

10. Sudetenland

12. Air Victory over Poland

24. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 4
Hitler Victorious, Sieg im Osten?, 1941-1942

25. Sessions remaining:
Hitler Brought Down; Closing the Ring,
1943-44
Hitler Brought Down; Nemesis, 1944-45

26. For Further Study
Antony Beevor. Stalingrad, NYC : Penguin,
1998
Saul Friedländer. The Years of
Extermination; Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945. NYC: Harper Collins, 2007.
(through Part III, Chap. 7, to p. 402)
John Keegan. The Second World War. Part II,
pp. 127-239.
Kershaw, vol II, Chaps. 8 - 11, pp.339-557.

27. Key points from Session 3
the conquest of Poland moved Hitler into new territory,
Kershaw’s “Licensing Barbarism” from which there was no
turning back
Polish gentile leadership, Polish Jews, and German “life
unworthy of living” were objects of criminal mass murder
tensions developed between the army and the “security
forces,” Einsatzgruppen, SD, SS, Ordnungspolizei
the invasion of Denmark and Norway was the first
successful example of combined operations
the western offensive, Fall Gelb, devastated the allies and
brought Hitler to the zenith of his prestige at home
the Battle of Britain was “a damn close run
thing” (Wellington about Waterloo)

35. Dunkirk

37. soldiers’ souvenir book of Hitler’s Paris visit

38. Engaged in the Final Struggle!
GERMAN AIRPOWER
against ENGLAND’S SEAPOWER

43. Coventry Cathedral

46. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 4
Hitler Victorious, Sieg im Osten?, 1941-1942

47. Sessions remaining:
Hitler Brought Down; Closing the Ring,
1943-44
Hitler Brought Down; Nemesis, 1944-45

48. For Further Study
Antony Beevor. Stalingrad, NYC : Penguin,
1998
Saul Friedländer. The Years of
Extermination; Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945. NYC: Harper Collins, 2007.
(through Part III, Chap. 7, to p. 402)
John Keegan. The Second World War. Part II,
pp. 127-239.
Kershaw, vol II, Chaps. 8 - 11, pp.339-557.

49. Key points from Session 3
the conquest of Poland moved Hitler into new territory,
Kershaw’s “Licensing Barbarism” from which there was no
turning back
Polish gentile leadership, Polish Jews, and German “life
unworthy of living” were objects of criminal mass murder
tensions developed between the army and the “security
forces,” Einsatzgruppen, SD, SS, Ordnungspolizei
the invasion of Denmark and Norway was the first
successful example of combined operations
the western offensive, Fall Gelb, devastated the allies and
brought Hitler to the zenith of his prestige at home
the Battle of Britain was “a damn close run
thing” (Wellington about Waterloo)

66. Josip Broz Tito

67. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 4
Hitler Victorious, Sieg im Osten?, 1941-1942

68. Sessions remaining:
Hitler Brought Down; Closing the Ring,
1943-44
Hitler Brought Down; Nemesis, 1944-45

69. For Further Study
Antony Beevor. Stalingrad, NYC : Penguin,
1998
Saul Friedländer. The Years of
Extermination; Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945. NYC: Harper Collins, 2007.
(through Part III, Chap. 7, to p. 402)
John Keegan. The Second World War. Part II,
pp. 127-239.
Kershaw, vol II, Chaps. 8 - 11, pp.339-557.

70. Key points from Session 3
the conquest of Poland moved Hitler into new territory,
Kershaw’s “Licensing Barbarism” from which there was no
turning back
Polish gentile leadership, Polish Jews, and German “life
unworthy of living” were objects of criminal mass murder
tensions developed between the army and the “security
forces,” Einsatzgruppen, SD, SS, Ordnungspolizei
the invasion of Denmark and Norway was the first
successful example of combined operations
the western offensive, Fall Gelb, devastated the allies and
brought Hitler to the zenith of his prestige at home
the Battle of Britain was “a damn close run
thing” (Wellington about Waterloo)

74. To the victors of Crete

75. dead German paratrooper

81. Eiserne Kreuzen being awarded
for Kesselschlact Bialystok

85. Soviet troops

87. SOVIET CITIZENS
AND CITIZENS OF THE
OCCUPIED GERMAN DISTRICTS
HELP THE PARTISANS IN THEIR STRUGGLE
AGAINST THE GERMANS. YOU ALSO FIGHT THE GERMANS.
DEATH TO THE GERMAN OCCUPIERS!

88. Soviet partisans

89. more Soviet partisans

90. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 4
Hitler Victorious, Sieg im Osten?, 1941-1942

91. Sessions remaining:
Hitler Brought Down; Closing the Ring,
1943-44
Hitler Brought Down; Nemesis, 1944-45

92. For Further Study
Antony Beevor. Stalingrad, NYC : Penguin,
1998
Saul Friedländer. The Years of
Extermination; Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945. NYC: Harper Collins, 2007.
(through Part III, Chap. 7, to p. 402)
John Keegan. The Second World War. Part II,
pp. 127-239.
Kershaw, vol II, Chaps. 8 - 11, pp.339-557.

93. Key points from Session 3
the conquest of Poland moved Hitler into new territory,
Kershaw’s “Licensing Barbarism” from which there was no
turning back
Polish gentile leadership, Polish Jews, and German “life
unworthy of living” were objects of criminal mass murder
tensions developed between the army and the “security
forces,” Einsatzgruppen, SD, SS, Ordnungspolizei
the invasion of Denmark and Norway was the first
successful example of combined operations
the western offensive, Fall Gelb, devastated the allies and
brought Hitler to the zenith of his prestige at home
the Battle of Britain was “a damn close run
thing” (Wellington about Waterloo)

95. Hero
City
Lenin-
grad

96. fallen Soviet soldier

98. Drancy concentration camp

99. Petain

100. Resistance

106. battle for a Stalingrad factory

107. panorama of Stalingrad across the Volga