who was the german general in world war two?
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Many. \nOne was E.(Erwin) Rommel who commanded The Afrika Corps (note spelling of africa)\nHowever Adolf Hitler was the Chancellor
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The last major offensive by the German army in World War II. In late 1944, the invasion of Belgium by the Allies was temporarily stopped by a German counterattack in which the Germans broke through the Allied defenses, seizing territory that caused a large “bulge” in their lines. The Allies, led by General George Patton, drove the German forces back with heavy casualties on both sides.
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Hitler was a mystical minded idiot who's only claim to fame was being in the right place at the right time and taking over a bunch of simple minded already angry and bitter people who wanted revenge on the world. I bet in his book he talks a lot about WWI and God? Hitler's a joke. What influence has he had? National socialism, pah, that's barely a sentence, let alone an attempt at a philosophy. "Germans are genetically superior, therefore they must rule the world." The refutation is WWII itself: Germans lost, therefore that statement is false, therefore, done.
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the United Kingdom, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered to and then joined the Allies in late 1943. Germany surrendered to the Allies in May of 1945. The war ended on 2 September 1945 with the formal surrender of Japan.\n\nApproximately 62 million people died in the war. Most were civilians, as a result of the large-scale aerial bombing of cities, disease, starvation, and genocide (see the Holocaust). It is guessed that the Soviet Union suffered around 23 million deaths, and that China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million.\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally partitioned into Western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, with significant boundary changes and displacement of people as the Soviet Union's borders shifted westwards.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers, such as India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, began their road to independence.\n\nFinally, the war saw a number of newly developed weapons that were used against either military and civilian targets. Atomic weapons, long range missiles, jet aircraft, and radar, are only a few of many wartime inventions that changed the nature of future conflict.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WW_2
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Panzerschiffe Admiral Graf Spee . Launched in 30 June 34\n\n13 Dec 39: The Graf Spee ran into the cruiser pack of the British South American Squadron, consisting of the Heavy Crusier Exeter, and the Light Cruisers Ajax and Achilles. The result of this meeting is known as the epic Battle of the River Plate. The fight took place in the La Plata estuary off the coast of Montevideo, Uruguay in South America. The Graf Spee put the Exeter out of action, and seriously damaged the Ajax, while only lightly damaging the Achilles. The Graf Spee received a number of hits during the battle and was forced to take refuge in Montevideo for repairs - International law allowed ships to take refuge in neutral harbors for repairs for a maximum limit of 24 hours, depending on the wishes of the neutral host.\n14 Dec 39: Uruguayan authorities board the Graf Spee to assess the amount of damage the ship received, to decide if the ship would be allowed to stay in their neutral harbor for more than the 24 hour maximum allowed by international law.\n\n15 Dec 39: After looking over the evidence gathered on the 14th, and after serious consideration of all the suggestions from the Americans, French, Germans, and British, a Presidential decree was declared stating that the Graf Spee would be allowed 72 hours to make any and all repairs. The time limit would end at 8:00pm on the 17th of December, 1939. Also on the 15th, 320 crew members in full uniform were allowed to land and bury the Graf Spee's dead. In attendance was the ships captain as well.\n\n17 Dec 39: Unable to complete repairs of the Graf Spee within the alloted time, unable to dash acros the harbor to Argentina, under strict orders by OKM not to go into internment in Uruguay, and wishing to avoid being taken by the British ships waiting and arriving in the region, Kpt.z.S. Langsdorff ordered his ship outside the harbor of Montevideo and to prepare to be scuttled. The ships crew were transfered to the German merchant ship Tacoma, and later to various Argentine tugs - all of which were soon after interned by Uruguayan authorities. Interestingly enough, the crew was under orders not to be interned in Uruguay, so with the permission of the Uruguayan authorities, they were transfered to Argentina, which was not under British influence and pressure as was Uruguay, and they spent the rest of the war there. Just after sunset, the Graf Spee was blown up with a series of well placed charges, causing it to sink in shallow water, coming to rest on the soft bottom in plain view of the coast. The Graf Spee sank intact and rested on the bottom with much of the ship still above the water line.\n\n19 Dec - 20 Dec 39: Kpt.z.S. Hans Langsdorf, while in his room in the Naval Arsenal in Buenos Aires where the ships officers were being held, committed suicide with a shot to the head. He was found the morning of the 20th wrapped in the ensign of his ship. He was later buried in the Cementerio del Norte in Buenos Aires - his final resting place.\n\n1948: The Graf Spee, still in place where it had been scuttled in 1939, had now sunk into the mud so that only its foretop was visible.\n\nToday: The faint remains of the ship can still be seen in the shallow water and mud where it was scuttled in 1939.
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Audie L. Murphy \nIn ww2
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Adolf Hitler (help·info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933, and "Führer" (leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.\n\nHitler gained power in a Germany facing crisis after World War I. Using propaganda and charismatic oratory, he was able to appeal to the economic need of the lower and middle classes, while sounding resonant chords of nationalism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism. With the establishment of a restructured economy, a rearmed military, and a totalitarian fascist dictatorship, Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy with the intention of expanding German Lebensraum ("living space"), which triggered World War II when Germany invaded Poland. At the height of its power, Nazi Germany occupied most of Europe, but it and the Axis Powers were eventually defeated by the Allies. By then, Hitler's racial policies had culminated in a genocide of approximately eleven million people, including about six million Jews, in what is now known as the Holocaust.\n\nIn the final days of the war, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin with his newlywed wife, Eva Braun.
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http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm
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hitler was on the power on 1933 and the second world war started th 39 look on google
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MacArthur was an amazing general during the Pacific part of WWII. he was responsible for many of the victories we had in the Pacific and he used the method of island hopping to take over island after island. why he was chosen over other i don't know but he was a great general which i am sure played a large part.
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The Battle of Kursk\n\nHaving been informed by a German offensive in Kursk, Gen. Georgi Zhukov prepared a defensive line with minefields, trenches, antitank guns, and the heavy T-34 tanks. When the Wermacht (German Army) reached Kursk, the Soviets launched a preparatory bombardment. Katyusha multiple rockets, known as Stalin Organs, thinned down the Germans. They Soviet Air Force also strafed Luftwaffe airfields, and dogfights involving thousands of aircraft aroused. Gen. Hoth's 4th Panzerarmee got into Soviet defenses, so Soviet reserves were rushed forward. About 800 T-34s clashed with the heavier King Tiger and Panther tanks equipped with Ferdinand self-propelled guns. The Germans lost a hundred tanks, and on July 15 Hitler called off the offensive.
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germany,Japan,Italy (Axis powers)
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Otto Skorzeny was a storm trooper extraordinaire.  He was a devoted Nazi through and through and was a favorite of Hitler.  He ran a successful mission to rescue Mussolini towards the end of the war.  He ran infiltration groups dresses as American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.  He also alledgedly was involved in setting up the Odessa escape organization that helped my Nazis flee Germany and head to South America.  He was not necessarily a very nice guy, but he certainly was the "go to" paratrooper for the Third Reich.  He was called the "Most Dangerous Man in Europe", led a fascinating life, and died of cancer at age 67.
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Go to www.bbc.co.uk/ww2.
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Hitler and the Germans backed Generalissimo Franco in his fascist takeover of Spain.  The Germans tested many of their weapons and new tactics using the Spanish Civil War as cover for doing so.  Germany was not supposed to have anything more than a defensive Army and no Air Force.  Hitler was able to work the bugs out of several weapons, planes and so forth at the expense of the Spanish people.  Franco who was put into power by winning the Civil War in the 1930's owed much of his success to Hitler and the foreign aid he had given to him.  He was successful at being Neutral during World War II and Franco remained in power in Spain until his death in the 1970's.
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General of the Armies
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The German Army was limited to only 100,000 men of all ranks. \nNo large artillery pieces, tanks or aircraft were allowed for the German military. \nLimits on German Army Reserves. Men who joined the German Army had to stay in for twelve years and officers had to stay in for twenty-five years. This meant that only a limited number of men in Germany would have military training. \nNo General Staff was allowed. The purpose of a General Staff was to plan for war. This was were Von Schlieffen had developed his plans, therefore, no General Staff equals no war plans, then no war. \nThe German Navy was limited to six cruisers, two old battleships and some smaller ships for port duties. \nSubmarines were completely forbidden. The threat of these weapons during the war caused serious problems for the Allies. \nThe Allies were to occupy the Rhineland for 15 years in an area called the “demilitarized zone.” Germany was to pay for the cost of the Allied troops stationed in this area. This condition was to help limit French fears of fighting on French soil. \nAlsace-Lorraine was returned to France. This was a sore spot for France because Bismarck had taken the provinces away after the Franco-Prussian War. \nParts of Germany that were occupied by Polish people were given to the new country of Poland. This was part of Wilson’s Fourteen Points to create countries made up of ethnic groups, not run by foreign powers. \nAll German overseas colonies were divided up and given to France, England and in the Pacific to Japan.