Academic literature on the topic 'Luftwaffe 1939-1945'

A base naval de Pearl Harbor ardeu em chamas durante o ataque inesperado de forças militares do Japão (1941). Com esta investida, o império nipônico dominava o sudeste asiático e suas ricas plantações de seringueiras na Malásia. Com isto, a economia da borracha brasileira seria reaquecida, a partir da assinatura dos chamados Tratados de Washington, colocando a Amazônia no tabuleiro as II Guerra Mundial (1939 – 1945). Na cidade de Manaus, capital do Estado do Amazonas, os jornais publicavam notícias sobre o conflito mundial e medidas para os habitantes se protegerem de possíveis confrontos diretos. O perigo de um verdadeiro ataque das forças nazistas sobre a Hinterlândia amazônica pairava no ar.

Zusammenfassung 1919-1945 William Mulligan, The Creation of the Modern German Army. General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914 1930 (Alexander Kranz) Élise Julien, Paris, Berlin. La mémoire de la guerre 1914-1933 (Stefan Martens) Christoph Frilling, Elly Beinhorn und Bernd Rosemeyer – Kleiner Grenzverkehr zwischen Resistenz und Kumpanei im Nationalsozialismus (John Zimmermann) Medien im Nationalsozialismus. Hrsg. von Bernd Heidenreich und Sönke Neitzel (Martin Kutz) Richard J. Evans, Das Dritte Reich, Bd 3: Krieg (Hans-Erich Volkmann) Colin D. Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis, Night Fighters. Luftwaffe and RAF Air Combat over Europe, 1939-1945 (Horst Boog) Edith Petschnigg, Von der Front aufs Feld. Britische Kriegsgefangene in der Steiermark 1941-1945 (Rüdiger Overmans) Donald Caldwell and Richard Muller, The Luftwaffe over Germany. Defense of the Reich (Horst Boog) Günther K. Weiße, Geheime Nachrichtendienste und Funkaufklärung im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Deutsche und alliierte Agentenfunkdienste in Europa 1939-1945 (Anja Werner) Corinna von List, Frauen in der Résistance 1940-1944 (Elisabeth Bokelmann) Karen Holtmann, Die Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Gruppe vor dem Volksgerichtshof. Die Hochverratsverfahren gegen die Frauen und Männer der Berliner Widerstandsorganisation 1944-1945 (Winfried Heinemann) Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck, Militärakademie – Kriegsschule – Fahnenjunker-Schule: Wiener Neustadt 1938-1945 (Martin Moll) Tvrtko P. Sojčić, Die »Lösung« der kroatischen Frage zwischen 1939 und 1945 (Holm Sundhaussen) Howard D. Grier, Hitler, Dönitz, and the Baltic Sea. The Third Reich´s Last Hope, 1944-1945 (Alexander Kranz) Christian Möller, Das letzte Aufgebot der deutschen Luftwaffe. Der Einsatz mit leichten Schulflugzeugen vom Typ Bücker Bü 181 als Nachtschlächter und Panzerjäger bei Kriegsende 1945 (Horst Boog) Hans Dieter Borchardt, Rückzugsgefechte in der Lazarettstadt Bad Dürrheim. Gefechte der 19. Armee mit den frz. Truppen Ende April 1945 in und um Bad Dürrheim (Detlef Vogel) Das Amt und die Vergangenheit. Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik. Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes und Moshe Zimmermann (Winfried Heinemann) Christian Plöger, Von Ribbentrop zu Springer: Zu Leben und Wirken von Paul Karl Schmidt alias Paul Carell (Jan Erik Schulte)

Starting in August 1942 the United States and United Kingdom started waging a strategic bombing offensive against Germany. Throughout the course of the 1942 and 1943 campaigns, American and British air forces struggled to gain the upper hand in the European air war. By November 1943 American and British defeats at the hands of the German Air Force, or Luftwaffe, had placed the air war in doubt. By February 1944, the air war had turned around in favor of the Allies. This dramatic turn of events has been explained by historians in a number of ways. The most popular narrative is that the introduction of the long range escort fighter, the P-51 "Mustang," turned the tide in the air war. Another narrative is that there was a change in the fighter tactics. Starting in January 1944, American fighters stopped defending the bombers and started aggressively pursuing German fighters. Yet, these analyses do not include a major command changes that took place from November to January 1944. After his appointment to command of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, General Dwight D. Eisenhower used his position centralize all of the major air commands in Europe under his control. By unifying the air commands, the Allies were able to better coordinate and concentrate their air against Germany. In February 1944 the Allies focused their air forces against the Luftwaffe ultimately wearing down German fighter strength. After finally removing a major obstacle impending the strategic air war against Germany, the Allies concentrated their air forces against transportation and oil targets. The destruction of these two major economic systems crippled Germany's ability to fight the Allies in 1944 and 1945. By changing the command structure, Eisenhower was able to use his air forces in successful coordinated strategic air offensives that the Allies had previously been incapable of accomplishing.