Michael David Kennedy (17. mai 2016). «Tanks and Tank Warfare». International Encyclopedia of The First World War. Besøkt 4. juni 2023. «Furthermore, Germany only completed production of twenty A7V tanks during the war, compared to over 6,000 Allied tanks of various models.»
«Joachim von Ribbentrop». britannica.com. Besøkt 2. februar 2021. «Ribbentrop’s greatest diplomatic coup, however, was the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of Aug. 23, 1939, which cleared the way for Hitler’s attack on Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, thus beginning World War II.»
«Alsace-Lorraine». Encyclopædia Britannica. Besøkt 6. august 2021. «Alsace-Lorraine was the name given to the 5,067 square miles (13,123 square km) of territory that was ceded by France to Germany in 1871 after the Franco-German War. This territory was retroceded to France in 1919 after World War I, was ceded again to Germany in 1940 during World War II, and was again retroceded to France in 1945.»
«Foreign policy». Encyclopædia Britannica. Besøkt 6. august 2021. «The Cold War political system had one major advantage. Italian foreign policy ceased to be adventurous. De Gasperi had to accept the harsh Treaty of Paris in 1947, in which Italy gave up all African colonies and relinquished some Alpine territories to France and the Dodecanese islands to Greece.»
«Battle of France World War II». Encyclopædia Britannica. Besøkt 22. mars 2023. «The unoccupied zone consisted of only the southeast two-fifths of France’s territory.»
«Battle of France World War II». Encyclopædia Britannica. Besøkt 22. mars 2023. «In that event, the Italians granted generous terms to the French: the only French territory that they claimed to occupy was the small frontier tract which their forces had succeeded in overrunning since June 20.»
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Joe Lunn (18. april 2007). «Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940 (review)». The Journal of Military History Society for Military History. Besøkt 2. august 2021. «Scheck's book is organized into three major sections. In the first, he painstakingly reconstructs the role of African units in the Battle of France. Drawing on operational reports from French and German military archives, he chronicles the character of the fighting, which resulted in unusually high African casualties. Furthermore, among the nearly 17,000 Africans who lost their lives as a result of this campaign, the author documents the massacre of between 1,000 and 1,500 soldiers and argues that the actual number of post-surrender murders committed by German troops was more likely on the order of 3,000 men.»
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O'Connell, Vincent (2013). «Left to Their Own Devices. Belgium's Ambiguous Assimilation of Eupen-Malmedy (1919-1940) (PDF)»(PDF). Journal of Belgian History. Journal of Belgian History (43 (4)): 41. «While the invasion of Belgium in May 1940 was not wholly unexpected the rapidity of the German victory was. On 18 May Hitler declared that “The territories separated from the Reich by the Treaty of Versailles and annexed by Belgium are once again in the possession of Germany”. As well as Eupen-Malmedy and St.Vith on 29 May a further ten communes in the north-east of Liège in which a German patois was spoken were also annexed to the Reich.»
«1940: PARISIAN EXODUS». Musée de la Libération de Paris, Musée du Général Leclerc, Musée Jean Moulin. Besøkt 29. april 2021. «Two million men, women and children left Paris in just a few days. They joined 6 million others already in turmoil. This mass movement of people going south and west in France became so great that very quickly the Bible was invoked, and it became known as - the Exodus.»
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«POSTWAR TRIALS». United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Besøkt 5. juli 2021. «In August 1945, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States signed the London Agreement and Charter (also called the Nuremberg Charter). The Charter established an International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg, Germany, to try major German war criminals. It assigned the IMT jurisdiction over crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, which include such crimes as "murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation...or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds."»
«HOW WERE THE CRIMES DEFINED?». United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Besøkt 5. juli 2021. «Defining the Crimes. The Nuremberg Charter (London Agreement and Charter) gave the IMT authority “to try and punish persons who, acting in the interest of the European Axis countries, whether as individuals or as members of organizations, committed any of the following crimes: Crimes against peace—which included planning, preparing, initiating and waging a war of aggression, as well as conspiring to commit any of those acts; War crimes—"violations of the laws or customs of war," including murder, ill-treatment, and deportation to slave labor of civilians, murder and ill-treatment of prisoners of war, and killing of hostages, as well as plunder and wanton destruction; Crimes against humanity—defined as murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, or inhumane treatment of civilians, and persecution on political, racial or religious grounds.»
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«What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”», fra «Their finest hour», Churchills tale i Underhuset 18. juni 1940, angrep fra det tyske Luftwaffe begynte først 10. juli.
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«Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 1 Indictment : Count One». The International Military Tribunal for Germany. Besøkt 5. juli 2021. «5. Expansion of the war into a general war of aggression: planning and execution of attacks on Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Yugoslavia, and Greece: 1939 to April 1941. Thus the aggressive war prepared for by the Nazi conspirators through their attacks on Austria and Czechoslovakia was actively launched by their attack on Poland. After the total defeat of Poland, in order to facilitate the carrying out of their military operations against France and the United Kingdom, the Nazi conspirators made active preparations for an extension of the war in Europe. In accordance with those plans, they caused the German armed forces to invade Denmark and Norway on 9 April 1940; Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg on 10 May 1940; Yugoslavia and Greece on 6 April 1941. All these invasions had been specifically planned in advance, in violation of the terms of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928.»
