Germany and the Second World War

Part 1 Political and military developments inthe mediterranean area, 1939-1941, Gerhard Schreiber: Mussolini's "non-belligerence; Italy's entry into the war; the strategic dilemma of the summer and autumn of 1940 - an alternativr or interim strategy?; ideas of German ruling circles concerning a colonial empire. Part 2 Germany, Italy and South-East Europe - from political and economic hegemony to military aggression, Gerhard Schreiber: unequal heirs of World War I; German and Italian policy towards the states of South-East Europe; Mussolini's invasion of Greece - the beginning of the end of Italy's great-power status. Part 3 German intervention in the Balkans, Detlef Vogel: Germany's Balkan policy in the autumn of 1940 and the spring of 1941; from the coup in Yugoslavia to the outbreak of war on 6 April 1941; the German attack on Yugoslavia and Greece; the capture of Crete. Part 4 Politics and warfare in 1941, Gerhard Schreiber: the Anglo-American association and its consequences for British strategy; Hitler's strategic deliberations in connection with the attack on the Soviet Union. Part 5 The Italo-German conduct of the war in the Mediterranean and North Africa, Bernd Stegemann: the British take the offensive in North and East Africa; German intervention and its effects on the naval and air war in the Mediterranean; the reconquest of Cyrenaica and the failure of the attacks on Tobruk; the fighting on the Sollum front; the naval and air war in the Mediterranean and supplies for the North African theatre; Operation Crusader.