Battles of the Western Front 42-45 DVD

In 1942 the German fronts were at their most extensive. German soldiers were deployed from North Cape to Africa and from the Atlantic Coast to the Caucasus. Although still marching forward in Africa and Russia, the military situation as a whole had undergone a fundamental change with the entry into the war of the United States of America. In the west, the Luftwaffe had forfeited its superiority and the Royal Air Force was growing in strength day by day.At sea too, the situation was changing. Convoys became better equipped to deal with the menace of submarines and,... with the loss of the Bismark in 1941, the deployment of German battleships in the Atlantic was virtually ended. In 1944, the battleships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen made a spectacular dash through the English Channel back to Germany, never to return to the Atlantic. The U Boat offensive collapsed in the summer of 1943 and from then on the German navy was almost entirely on the defensive.Following the successful Allied landings on D Day, the German Army was progressively pushed back into Germany and beyond the Rhine. On 16th of December 1944 the Germans mounted one last attack through the Ardennes but were forced back to their starting positions by the 7th of February 1945. One month later, 7th March 1945, the Allied armies crossed the Rhine at Remagen and pushed forward, almost unhindered into the interior of the Reich. After over 5 years of war, the Western Front had ceased to exist. [show more]

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