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World War II

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Deutsch: Der Zweite Weltkrieg war der größte und blutigste Konflikt in der Menschheitsgeschichte. Er begann in Europa am 1. September 1939 mit dem deutschen Überfall auf Polen und im Pazifik bzw. in Asien mit dem japanischen Angriff auf Pearl Harbor am 7. Dezember 1941, wobei man manchmal auch den Ausbruch des Zweiten Japanisch-Chinesischen Kriegs am 7. Juli 1937 als Beginn in Asien annimmt. Beendet wurde er in Europa am 8. Mai 1945 und in Asien mit der Unterzeichnung der Kapitulation Japans am 2. September 1945. English: World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. Italiano: La Seconda Guerra Mondiale è stato il più grande e costoso conflitto armato della storia. Ha coinvolto la maggior parte degli stati mondiali, schierati principalmente in due blocchi: l'asse e gli alleati. Alla fine del conflitto durato dal 1939 al 1945 si contano più di 52 milioni di vittime. Español: La Segunda Guerra Mundial ha sido el conflicto bélico más extenso y costoso en la historia del mundo, involucrando a las más poderosas naciones del mundo, siendo luchado de forma simultánea en numerosas grandes regiones, y costando decenas de millones de vidas. Français : La Seconde Guerre mondiale est le conflit armé le plus vaste que l'humanité ait connu, tuant environ 62 millions de personnes dont une majorité de civils, ce qui est une première dans l'Histoire. Elle a commencé en 1939, en Pologne, ou même, selon certains, en 1936 en Espagne, ou bien encore selon d'autres, en 1937 en Asie, pour se terminer en 1945. Ce conflit opposa, de façon schématique, deux camps : les Alliés et l'Axe.

Malti: It-Tieni Gwerra Dinjija hi l-akbar ġlieda li qatt saret fl-istorja tad-dinja bejn il-ġnus. Kienet konflitt bejn il-biċċa l-kbira tal-pajjiżi mondjali, li kienu maqsuma f'żewġ blokki l-assi u l-alleati. Il-gwerra damet sejra mill-1939 sa l-1945 fejn it-total ta' vittmi kien t'iktar minn 52 miljun ruħ. Polski: II Wojna Światowa - największy konflikt zbrojny w historii świata, trwający między 1 września 1939 r. a 2 września 1945 r., obejmujący zasięgiem działań wojennych prawie całą Europę, część Azji, północną Afrykę i wszystkie oceany. Niektóre epizody wojny rozgrywały się nawet na Antarktydzie. Poza prawie wszystkimi państwami europejskimi, brały w niej udział główne państwa Ameryki Północnej i Azji. Głównymi stronami konfliktu były państwa osi i państwa koalicji antyhitlerowskiej (alianci). Slovenščina: Druga svetovna vojna je bila najobsežnejši in najdražji oborožen spopad v svetovni zgodovini. V njej se je na več glavnih prizoriščih borila velika večina narodov sveta in je stala milijone življenj. 中文: 第二次世界大战是世界历史上范围最广， 造成损失最大的一次战争，世界上许多国家卷入这场战争，在世界各地同时开展战斗，造成六千二百万人丧生，其中大多数是平民。战争实际从1931年日本入侵 中国东北就已经开始，直到1945年9月2日日本正式投降才全部结束。 文言: 第二次世界大戰，舉世皆與，分為同盟 軸心二派，相對壘也。中華民國、美國、英國、法國、蘇聯，同盟國也；德國、義大利、日本，軸心國也。中華日本之戰，凡八年，幾皆於中國土。美國而後助華， 戰日本於太平洋，終敗之焉。英法蘇德義，相爭六載，亦因美國之入，而定其局，德義告敗。此間戰火綿延，殆及坤輿，萬民流離，生靈塗炭。故戰後諸國厭焉，合 組聯合國，以保太平也。

Contents [hide] 1 Speeches 2 Officers 2.1 Canada 2.2 China 2.3 France 2.4 Germany 2.5 Japan 2.6 Poland 2.6.1 German Nazi concentration camps 2.6.2 Lost Prewar Poland 2.6.3 People 2.7 Soviet Union 2.8 United Kingdom 2.9 United States 3 Battles 3.1 European Eastern Front 3.2 European Western Front 3.3 Africa campaign 3.4 Pacific Theater 4 Air War 5 Propaganda posters 6 Other 7 The Blitz 8 German World War II and pre-war in color 9 Peace 10 Nuremberg Trials 11 Post War Pictures 11.1 Europe 12 Cemetries, Memorials and Museums 12.1 Cemetries 12.2 Memorials 12.3 Museums 12.3.1 Museum for Peace 13 See Also

[edit] Speeches

• 1941, Dec. 8, Franklin D. Roosevelt speech after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • part 1 - Comments on the attack.
  • part 2 - Declaration of War.

[edit] Officers

World War II military officers, generals and other ranks of Army, Air Force and Navy. See also: Category:People associated with World War II

[edit] Canada

Flight Lieutenant George Beurling

General Harry Crerar

For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from Canada

[edit] China

General Chiang Kai-shek(蒋介石将军）

General Li zhong-ren (李宗仁将军）

General Sun li-ren (孙立人将军）

General Zhang zi-zhong (张自忠将军）

For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from China

[edit] France

General Charles de Gaulle

General Henri Giraud

General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque

Marshall Philippe Pétain

For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from France

[edit] Germany

Wehrmacht

Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Chief of the Navy 1939-43	Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, Chief of the Navy 1943-45	Reichs Marshal Hermann Göring, Chief of the Air Force	General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff	Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Wehrmacht High Command	Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Commander of the Afrikakorps

S.S.

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler

SS Lt. General Ernst Kaltenbrunner, RSHA Director

For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from Germany

[edit] Japan

Admiral Chuichi Nagumo

Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

General Tomoyuki Yamashita

Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from Japan

[edit] Poland

See also Category:Poland in World War II

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact	German invasion	Soviet invasion	Soviet Katyń Massacre	German Destruction of Warsaw	Warsaw Uprising

[edit] German Nazi concentration camps

Auschwitz I	Auschwitz II Birkenau	Bergen-Belsen 2003	Bergen-Belsen 1945	Buchenwald 2005	Buchenwald ovens
Buchenwald laborers	Buchenwald compound	Dachau entrance "ARBEIT MACHT FREI"	Dachau Krematorium ovens	Dachau death train	Dachau Denkmal "Nie wieder", Never again
Belzec	Majdanek	Sobibór	Treblinka

[edit] Lost Prewar Poland

Saxon Palace	Warsaw Old Town	Warsaw Mariensztat	Brühl Palace	St. Andrew Church	Great Synagogue

[edit] People

General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski	Brigadier General Władysław Filipkowski	Lt. Colonel Jan Kowalewski	General Leopold Okulicki	Major Bolesław Orliński, fighter pilot

For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from Poland

[edit] Soviet Union

[edit] United Kingdom

Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck	Air Chief Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham	Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris	Lt. General Brian Horrocks	Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery	Lt. General Arthur Percival
General Neil Ritchie	Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder	Field Marshal Archibald Wavell

For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from the United Kingdom

[edit] United States

General J. Lawton Collins	Admiral Charles M. Cooke	Major James Devereux	General Jimmy Doolittle	General Dwight D. Eisenhower	Admiral Frank J. Fletcher
Lt. General James M. Gavin	Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.	Fleet Admiral Ernest King	Admiral Husband Kimmel	General Douglas MacArthur	Admiral Marc Mitscher
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz	General George S. Patton	Rear Admiral Norman Scott	Admiral Forrest Sherman	General Holland Smith	Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
General Alexander A. Vandegrift	Major General Edwin F. Harding

For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from the United States

[edit] Battles

For more pictures see: Category:Battles of World War II

[edit] European Eastern Front

For more pictures see: Category:Battles of the Eastern Front (World War II)

Invasion of Poland	Winter War	Battle of Crete	Battle of Stalingrad	Battle of Neretva	Battle of Kursk
Operation Bagration	Warsaw Uprising	Slovak National Uprising	Battle of Berlin

[edit] European Western Front

For more pictures see: Category:Battles of the Western Front (World War II)

Battle of the Atlantic	Battle of France	Operation Dynamo	Battle of Cape Matapan	Battle of Greece	Operation Archery
Allied invasion of Italy	Operation Tonga	Operation Overlord	Battle of Normandy	Battle for Caen	Battle of Cherbourg
Battle of Brittany	Falaise Pocket	Liberation of Paris	The Lorraine Campaign	Operation Market-Garden	Battle of the Scheldt
Battle of the Bulge	Operation Woodlark	Crossing the Rhine	Operation Lumberjack

[edit] Africa campaign

For more pictures see Category:Battles of Africa Campaign (World War II)

Battle of Keren	Battle of Bir Hakeim	First Battle of El Alamein	Second Battle of El Alamein	Operation Torch

[edit] Pacific Theater

For more pictures see Category:Battles of the Pacific War

Attack on Pearl Harbor	Battle of Singapore	Battle of the Philippines	Doolittle Raid	Battle of the Coral Sea	Battle of Midway
Solomon Islands campaign	Battle of Savo Island	Battle of the Eastern Solomons	Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands	Naval Battle of Guadalcanal	Battle of Tassafaronga
Battle of Rennell Island	Battle of New Britain	Mariana and Palau Islands campaign	Battle of Saipan	Battle of Tinian	Battle of Guam
Battle of Peleliu	Battle of the Philippine Sea	Battle of Leyte Gulf	Battle of Iwo Jima	Battle of Okinawa

For detailed maps see: Category:Maps of World War II in the Pacific

[edit] Air War

Bombing of Berlin by the U.S. Air Forces (around 1942)

[edit] Propaganda posters

Articles

• World War II Posters

Main Gallery

Let's catch him with his "panzers" down!

[edit] Other

• Afrika Korps

The American 442nd Regimental Combat team, made up of Japanese-Americans	Tiger II "King Tiger"	Tiger II "King Tiger" (rear)	Invasion of Poland (1939)‎	Prisoners of War - Kriegsgefangene	Yalta summit 1945
Persian Corridor train	Finland-USSR battle	Finland-USSR battle in 1941	Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen - now a gas station	"Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri	"Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri

[edit] The Blitz

See Category:The Blitz

[edit] German World War II and pre-war in color

Umzugswagen Sparkasse

Umzugswagen Sparkasse 2

[edit] Peace

Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won, 8 May 1945	GI's at the Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club in Paris, France, whoop it up after buying the special edition of the Paris Post, which carried the banner headline, `JAPS QUIT.' August 10, 1945	At the White House, President Truman announces Japan's surrender. Washington, DC, August 14, 1945	Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945.	Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander. Behind Gen. MacArthur are Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival	Japanese surrender
The Japanese Garrison at Wake Island surrenders (1945)	Shanghai people celebrating Japanese surrender	Crowds celebrating V-J Day in Times Square	Photo of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender

[edit] Nuremberg Trials

See Nuremberg Trials

[edit] Post War Pictures

[edit] Europe

Painting of Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden in Berlin, 3 June 1945	The Reichstag after the allied bombing of Berlin, 3 June 1945	Graffiti left by Russian soldiers covers the pillars inside the ruins of the German Reichstag building, 3 July 1945	Scene of destruction in a Berlin street just off the Unter den Linden, 3 July 1945	Scene of destruction in the Linden Passage, the famous Berlin shopping archade on the Unter den Linden, 3 July 1945	German women doing their washing at a cold water hydrant in a Berlin street, a knocked out German scout car stands beside them, 3 July 1945
The war damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin, 7 July 1945	British soldiers queue for tea at NAAFI Mobile Canteen No.750 beside the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. This van was the first mobile NAAFI to operate in Berlin, 16 July 1945

[edit] Cemetries, Memorials and Museums

[edit] Cemetries

• World War II Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial
• World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
• Colleville-sur-Mer
• La Cambe
• Ehrenfriedhof Daleiden

[edit] Memorials

• Sowjetisches Ehrenmal (Tiergarten)
• Sowjetisches Ehrenmal (Treptower Park)
• Category:USMC War Memorial
• Category:Kranji War Memorial
• Category:Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
• Category:Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)

For more pictures see: Category:World War II memorials

[edit] Museums

[edit] Museum for Peace

• Benouville Pegasus Bridge Museum

original Pegasus Bridge

• Museum for Peace (Mémorial de la paix, Caen, Normandie)

Hawker Typhoon		Re-construction of a french wall during World War 2	Soviet partisan uniform (WWII)	german V1 (WWII)

[edit] See Also

• People associated with World War II
• World War II operations and battles
• World War II ships
• Łódź Ghetto
• Manhattan Project

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