The French thought they were acting Action honourably in terms of their armistice Process_end with Nazi Germany and were convinced Know they would never turn Bringing over their fleet to Germany .

It marked Recording the 50th anniversary Social_event of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany .

Kristallnacht ( ) or the Night of Broken Glass , also called Name_conferral the November Pogrom Killing ( s ) , was a pogrom Killing against Jews carried out Military_operation by SA paramilitary forces Hostile_encounter and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938 .

The pretext for the attacks Attack was the assassination Killing of the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan , a 17-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris .

On 10 May 1940 , while the `` Pelikaan '' was en route to Asia , Nazi forces Causation invaded Attack the Netherlands .

The Eastern Front was decisive in determining Deciding the outcome in the European theatre of operations in World War II , eventually serving Supply as the main reason for the defeat Conquering of Nazi Germany and the Axis nations .

Crimes against the Polish nation committed Commitment by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion Attack of Poland , along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation Control of Poland in World War II , consisted of the murder Killing of millions of ethnic Poles and the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles .

The Germans justified Justifying these genocides Killing on the basis of Nazi racial theory , which regarded Poles and other Slavic peoples as racially inferior `` Untermenschen '' and depicted Create_artwork Jews as a constant threat Warning .

By 1942 , the Nazi Germans were implementing their plan Arranging to kill Killing every Jew in German-occupied Europe , and had also developed Creating plans Arranging to eliminate Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the Polish people through mass murder Killing , ethnic cleansing , enslavement and extermination through labor , and assimilation into German identity of a small minority of Poles deemed Coming_to_believe racially valuable .

The Nazi master plan Arranging entailed the expulsion Removing and mass extermination of some 85 percent ( over 20 million ) of Poland 's ethnically-Polish citizens , the remaining Presence 15 percent to be turned Becoming into slave labor .

In 2000 , by an act of the Polish Parliament , dissemination of knowledge on World War II Nazi German and Stalinist Soviet crimes Committing_crime in Poland was entrusted to the Institute of National Remembrance , which had been established Building in Warsaw in 1998 .

Hitler 's plan Arranging combined Cause_to_amalgamate classic imperialism with Nazi racial ideology .

Combined with the capture of `` Berchtesgaden '' , any hope of Nazi leadership continuing to wage war from a so-called National Redoubt or escape through the Alps was crushed Destroying , shortly followed by unconditional German surrender on 8 May 1945 .

The operation stemmed Creating from Nazi Germany 's ideological aim of conquering Conquering the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans ( ) , and to also use Using some Slavs as a slave labour force for the Axis war effort and to annihilate Killing the rest according to Generalplan Ost , and to acquire Getting the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories .

The Nationalist forces received Receiving munitions , soldiers , and air support Supporting from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy , while the Republican side received Receiving support Supporting from the Soviet Union and Mexico .

Operation Military_operation Tannenberg ( ) was a codename for one of the extermination actions by Nazi Germany that was directed Aiming at the Poles during the opening Openness stages of World War II in Europe , as part of the `` Generalplan Ost '' for the German colonization of the East .

Operation `` Sharp Gate '' , English : Operation `` Gate of Dawn '' ) was an armed Bearing_arms conflict Hostile_encounter during World War II between the Polish Home Army and the Nazi German occupiers of Vilnius ( ) .

Leaderless when it first began Process_start , it was the first major threat Influence to Soviet control Control since the Red Army drove Motion Nazi Germany from its territory at the End of World War II in Europe .

Subsequent military operations lasted Process_end for the following 20 days and ended Process_end on 6 October 1939 with the two-way division and annexation of the entire territory of the Second Polish Republic by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union .

The Operation Arsenal , code name : `` Meksyk II '' ( ) was the first major operation Military_operation by the Szare Szeregi ( Gray Ranks ) Polish Underground formation during the Nazi occupation of Poland .

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ( ; ; ) was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Agree_or_refuse_to_act Nazi Germany 's final effort to transport Sending the remaining ghetto population to Majdanek and Treblinka concentration camps .

On 20 July 1944 , Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Killing Adolf Hitler , Führer of Nazi Germany , inside his Wolf 's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg , East Prussia .

The plot Arranging was the culmination of efforts Supporting by several groups in the German resistance Preventing_or_letting to overthrow Change_of_leadership the Nazi German government .

Once released Releasing , Hitler redirected Change his focus towards obtaining Getting power through legal Legality means rather than revolution Change_of_leadership or force , and accordingly changed Change his tactics , further developing Cause_to_make_progress Nazi propaganda .

After Nazi Germany invaded Attack Poland in September 1939 , France and the British Empire declared Expressing_publicly war on Germany and imposed Action an economic blockade .

The Bombing Attack of Würzburg in World War II was part of the strategic bombing Attack campaign by the Allies against Nazi Germany .

Intelligenzaktion ( , `` Intelligentsia action '' ) was a secret mass murder Killing conducted Action by Nazi Germany against the Polish intelligentsia ( teachers , priests , physicians , `` et al . '' )

The `` Intelligenzaktion '' was a major step to implementing Action `` Sonderaktion Tannenberg '' ( Operation Tannenberg ) , the installation of Nazi policemen and functionaries — from the SiPo ( composed of the Kripo and Gestapo ) , and the SD — to manage Hold the occupation and facilitate Cause_to_make_progress the realisation of `` Generalplan Ost '' , the German colonization of Poland .

Paris had been ruled Control by Nazi Germany since the signing Sign_agreement of the Second Compiègne Armistice on 22 June 1940 , after which the `` Wehrmacht '' occupied Control northern and western France .

The Allied invasion Attack of Sicily , codenamed Operation Military_operation Husky , was a major campaign Military_operation of World War Hostile_encounter II , in which the Allies took Conquering the island of Sicily from the Axis powers ( the Kingdom of Italy and Nazi Germany ) .

Zagreb was the capital city of the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ) , a puppet state of Nazi Germany .

Franco 's veteran colonial troops , or `` regulares '' , under General Yague , along with air cover supplied Supply by Nazi Germany , routed Motion_directional the Republican militias in their path .

On the other side , both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy supplied Supply Franco with air cover and armoured units for his assault on Madrid , while the Luftwaffe units in Spain , the Condor Legion , were commanded Control independently of Franco 's officers .

Operation Frankton was a commando raid Attack on shipping in the Nazi German occupied French port of Bordeaux in southwest France during the Second World War .

The Phoney period began Process_start with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France against Nazi Germany on 3 September 1939 , and ended Process_end with the German invasion Attack of France and the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign Hostile_encounter in World War Hostile_encounter II , running from 1939 to the defeat Conquering of Nazi Germany in 1945 , and was a major part of the Naval history of World War Hostile_encounter II .

After 15 months of Interim Peace , in June 1941 , Nazi Germany commenced Process_start Operation Barbarossa and the Continuation War between Finland and the USSR began Process_start .

The Defence of the Reich ( ) is the name given Giving to the strategic defensive Defending aerial campaign Social_event fought Hostile_encounter by the `` Luftwaffe '' over German-occupied Europe and Nazi Germany during World War II .

In the first quarter of 1944 , Nazi Germany produced Manufacturing 546,000 tons of aviation fuel , with 503,000 tons came from synthetic fuel by hydrogenation .

The pogrom has been compared in some media to the `` Kristallnacht '' , the 1938 pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany .