The Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration
Hermann Göring and Reinhard Heydrich
War crimesPoliticsAxis
My views:
A thousand kilometers to save an industry
War Industry Commission and factory management
Supply Chain
Negrín and the Fall of Barcelona
Juan Negrín, Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic
PoliticsStrategy
Hitler at the Reichstag: how harsh an antisemitic tone?
Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich
PoliticsWar crimesAxis
Flee or Stay
You play a German Jewish family
Civilian lifeWar crimesAxis
The lattice of steel that defied mass production
Barnes Wallis and Vickers-Armstrongs
Engineering & ProductionAllies
The rubber that won't grow in the Reich
IG Farben and the Reich Ministry of Economics
Supply ChainAxis
Tiso Under German Pressure
Msgr Jozef Tiso, leader of the Slovak autonomists
Politics
Hácha in Berlin
Emil Hácha, President of Czecho-Slovakia
EssentialsPolitics
The Austrian Railwayman and the Party Card
An Austrian railwayman from Linz
Civilian lifePolitics
A Czech under the Protectorate
You play a Czech of Bohemia
Civilian lifeResistance
Making oil from coal
IG Farben and the Four-Year Plan administration (Göring)
Supply ChainEngineering & ProductionAxis
Memel — the Ultimatum to Lithuania
Juozas Urbšys, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Politics
The Czech Gold
Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England
PoliticsSupply ChainAllies
Enlisting — the Territorial Army
You play a young Briton
Civilian lifeAllies
Chamberlain and the Threat to Poland
Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister
EssentialsPoliticsAllies
Albania Invaded — King Zog
King Zog I of Albania
PoliticsPeople
The bombardier's eye
US Army Air Corps and the bombsight industry
Engineering & Production
Roosevelt and the European Crisis
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
Politics
Join the Party?
You play an uncommitted German
Civilian lifePoliticsAxis
USSR: Arming the Infantry Against Tanks
Artillery Directorate and Armament Factories
Engineering & ProductionSupply Chain
Hitler at the Reichstag rostrum
Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich
PoliticsAxis
The Jewish Lawyer of Vienna Facing Exile
A Jewish Viennese lawyer struck from the bar
PoliticsCivilian lifeWar crimes
Litvinov in the Hot Seat
Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
Chongqing Under the Bombs
The Chinese Nationalist authorities and the civil defence of Chongqing
AirDefensiveWar crimesAllies
Beck Before the Sejm
Józef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland
PoliticsAllies
Donbass Coal: Producing More Without Steel
People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry and Donbass miners
Supply Chain
Pius XII and the March to War
Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli)
Politics
Khalkhin Gol — the First Clash
The command of the Japanese Kwantung Army (Guandong)
CombatGroundOffensiveAxis
The St. Louis Sets Sail
Captain Gustav Schröder, master of the liner St. Louis
Civilian lifeWar crimes
3 Demands, One Chassis
Fiat-Ansaldo design office and the Regio Esercito
Engineering & Production
London and the Future of Palestine
Malcolm MacDonald, British Secretary of State for the Colonies
EssentialsPoliticsAllies
The Royal Visit of George VI
King George VI and the British government
PoliticsAllies
The Victory Parade in Madrid
General Francisco Franco, Head of the Spanish State
PoliticsWar crimes
Mussolini and Berlin's Offer
Benito Mussolini, Head of the Italian Government
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
Hitler Before His Generals
Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAxis
London and Peacetime Conscription
Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Secretary of State for War
PoliticsStrategyAllies
Italy Is Not Ready
Benito Mussolini, Head of the Italian Government
StrategyPolitics
A Jewish Family of Vienna
You play a Viennese Jewish family
Civilian lifeWar crimes
The Camps of the Retirada
The French government (Édouard Daladier)
Civilian lifePoliticsAllies
Fokker against the clock
Fokker and the Luchtvaartafdeling (Dutch military aviation)
Supply Chain
Zhukov Takes Command
Georgy Zhukov, commander of the Soviet corps in Mongolia
GroundOffensiveAxis
The Tientsin Incident
The British government (and Ambassador Robert Craigie)
PoliticsStrategyAllies
The Kindertransport
You play German Jewish parents
Civilian lifeWar crimesAxis
Dowding and the Defence of British Skies
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, head of Fighter Command
EssentialsEngineering & ProductionAirDefensiveAllies
The East Indies Oilfields Facing Japan
Oil companies and Dutch East Indies authorities
DefensiveSupply Chain
The Prague Notary and the Aryanization of Jewish Property
A Czech notary in Prague
War crimesCivilian lifePolitics
Romania Caught Between Two Fires
King Carol II of Romania
PoliticsSupply Chain
The Moscow Talks
The British government (Chamberlain and Halifax)
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyAllies
Kharkiv 1939 — track or wheel?
Mikhail Koshkin, chief engineer of the design bureau at Factory No. 183
EssentialsEngineering & ProductionSupply ChainStrategy
Khalkhin Gol — Baïn-Tsagan
Georgy Zhukov, commander of the Soviet corps in Mongolia
CombatGroundOffensiveAxis
Whittle and the Jet Engine
The British Air Ministry and Frank Whittle (Power Jets)
Engineering & ProductionAirAllies
Danzig — the Escalation
The Polish government (Józef Beck)
PoliticsAllies
The RAF — Fighters or Bombers
The Royal Air Force staff and the Air Ministry
StrategyAirAllies
Switzerland and the Gathering Storm
The Swiss Federal Council
PoliticsStrategy
Plan Z
Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, head of the Kriegsmarine
NavalStrategyAxis
Roosevelt and the Arms Embargo
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
Politics
Beneš in London — autumn 1939
Edvard Beneš, former President of Czechoslovakia
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Gamelin and French Army Doctrine
General Maurice Gamelin, Chief of Staff of National Defence
EssentialsStrategyGroundDefensive
Turkey Between Axis and Allies
İsmet İnönü, President of the Republic of Turkey
Politics
The Polish Army and the Deployment
Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Inspector General of the Polish Armed Forces
StrategyGroundDefensiveAllies
Enigma — the Polish Cipher Bureau's Dilemma
Major Gwido Langer, head of the Polish Cipher Bureau (BS-4)
EssentialsIntelligenceEngineering & ProductionPeopleAllies
The Youth of the Reich
You play a German family
Civilian lifePoliticsAxis
The Dominions Facing War
Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia
Politics
Northward or southward
General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Army
EssentialsStrategySupply ChainAxis
Your Jewish neighbours: inform or protect?
An ordinary Viennese household living next to a Jewish family
War crimesCivilian lifePolitics
Einstein, Szilárd and the Atomic Threat
Leó Szilárd and Albert Einstein, physicists
EssentialsEngineering & ProductionPeople
Gas Masks
You play a London family
Civilian lifeDefensiveAllies
A Pacifist Conscript Faces the Call-Up
You play a British conscientious objector
Civilian lifePeopleAllies
The Drax-Doumenc Mission
The heads of the Allied military mission (Admiral Drax, General Doumenc)
PoliticsStrategy
India and the Congress
The Indian National Congress (Gandhi and Nehru)
Politics
The U-boats Before the Storm
Rear Admiral Karl Dönitz, commander of the submarine arm
NavalStrategyAxis
Khalkhin Gol — the August Dilemma
Georgy Zhukov, commander of the Soviet corps in Mongolia
CombatOffensiveGroundAxis
The Obersalzberg Speech
Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich
StrategyPoliticsWar crimesAxis
Stalin in 1939: which side to lean toward?
Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
A Correspondent in Berlin
William Shirer, American correspondent in Berlin
PeopleCivilian lifeAxis
London Answers the Nazi-Soviet Pact
Lord Halifax and the British government
PoliticsAllies
Mussolini and the Pact of Steel
Benito Mussolini, head of the Italian government
Politics
Hitler Faces Allied Resolve
Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAxis
The Karten: Rationing Germany at War
The Four Year Plan administration under Hermann Göring
Supply ChainPoliticsCivilian lifeAxis
Japan Disoriented
The Japanese government (Hiranuma cabinet)
PoliticsStrategyAxis
Poland and Mobilisation
The Polish command (Marshal Rydz-Śmigły)
StrategyPoliticsAllies
The Last-Chance Mediation
The British government (Ambassador Nevile Henderson)
PoliticsAllies
Operation Peking — Stankiewicz Facing the Sound
Commander Roman Stankiewicz, chief of the Polish destroyer flotilla
NavalStrategyPeopleAllies
City Children on the Eve of War
You play a British family
Civilian lifePeopleAllies
Gleiwitz — Naujocks at the Transmitter
SS-Sturmbannführer Alfred Naujocks, SD agent
EssentialsCovert opsPoliticsWar crimesAxis
Westerplatte — Sucharski under the Schleswig-Holstein's guns
Major Henryk Sucharski, commander of the Polish garrison at Westerplatte
CombatGroundDefensivePeopleAllies
Wieluń at 04:40 — the first air strike
Civilians and local authorities of Wieluń
War crimesAirCivilian lifeAllies
Krojanty — Mastalerz and the 18th Uhlans
Colonel Kazimierz Mastalerz, commanding the 18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment
CombatGroundOffensivePeopleAllies
The Polish Post Office in Danzig — Guderski under SS fire
Lieutenant Konrad Guderski, military commander of the Polish Post Office in Danzig
CombatDefensiveWar crimesAllies
Mokra — Filipowicz and the Volhynian Brigade
Colonel Julian Filipowicz, commanding the Volhynian Cavalry Brigade
CombatGroundDefensivePeopleAllies
Hubal — after the order to disband
Major Henryk Dobrzański "Hubal", commanding the separate detachment
ResistancePeopleGroundAllies
The Tczew bridge — Janik and the detonator
Captain Stanisław Janik, commanding the Tczew engineer detachment
CombatEngineering & ProductionPeopleAllies
Mussolini — Palazzo Venezia, 1 September
Benito Mussolini, Italian Prime Minister (Duce)
EssentialsPoliticsPeople
Leopold III — Brussels, 3 September
Leopold III, King of the Belgians
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Wilhelmina — The Hague after Venlo
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
PoliticsPeople
Intelligenzaktion — the schoolmaster of Pomerania
Polish schoolmaster
War crimesAllies
Maria Wittek — the PWK in September 1939
Lieutenant Colonel Maria Wittek, commanding the Women's Military Training organisation (PWK)
CombatGroundPeopleAllies
Father Kolbe — the Wehrmacht arrives at Niepokalanów
Father Maximilian Kolbe, OFM Conv., superior of the Franciscan monastery of Niepokalanów
PeopleCivilian lifeAllies
Christian X — Amalienborg, 1 September
Christian X, King of Denmark and Iceland
PoliticsPeople
Haakon VII — Facing the Cross-Pressures
Haakon VII, King of Norway
PoliticsPeople
Operation Pied Piper — Womersley and the evacuation
Sir Walter Womersley, British Minister of Pensions and evacuation coordinator
Civilian lifeSupply ChainAllies
Władysław Gnyś — the Dorniers over Olkusz
Second Lieutenant Władysław Gnyś, 121st Polish Fighter Squadron
AirCombatPeopleDefensiveAllies
Per Albin Hansson — facing the Finnish appeal
Per Albin Hansson, Prime Minister of Sweden
PoliticsStrategy
The Merlin Engine and the Urgency of War
Rolls-Royce management and the Air Ministry
Supply ChainEngineering & ProductionAllies
An all-wood combat aircraft
Geoffrey de Havilland and the de Havilland management
Engineering & ProductionAllies
30 submarines a month, or next to nothing
Kriegsmarine and Admiral Dönitz
NavalSupply ChainAxis
Volkswagen: the people's car or the war?
Volkswagenwerk and the German Command
Supply ChainAxis
The wire or the wave: how to command fire
French Army Command (doctrine and signals)
Engineering & ProductionAllies
The Forbidden Zone of Alsace — what to do with the civilians of the Rhine?
French military command and civil authorities of Alsace
DefensiveCivilian lifeAllies
Chongqing's Strategic Ore
National Resources Commission, Nationalist government
Supply ChainPolitics
Wieluń: strike an undefended town?
Wolfram von Richthofen, commander of the close air support corps (Fliegerführer z.b.V.), Luftwaffe
EssentialsAirCombatWar crimesAxis
Wieluń, 4:40 a.m. — the first bomb of the war
A baker in Wieluń, a small, undefended Polish town
Civilian lifeWar crimesAirAllies
Danzig policeman: serve the annexation?
An inspector of the Free City of Danzig police
PoliticsWar crimesCivilian lifeAllies
A Danzig Customs Officer on the Day of Annexation
A German customs official at the port of Danzig
Civilian lifeWar crimesPoliticsAxis
Wasilewska in Lwów, then Moscow
Wanda Wasilewska, Polish writer and communist activist
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Borakowski and the merchant fleet
Henryk Borakowski, director of Gdynia-America Line (GAL)
NavalSupply ChainPeoplePoliticsAllies
Vuillemin — the Armée de l'Air on standby
General Joseph Vuillemin, Chief of the General Staff of the Armée de l'Air
StrategyAirPeople
Altmayer and the 5th DLC in the Ardennes
General Robert Altmayer, commanding the 5th Light Cavalry Division
GroundPeople
Baumgartner and the gold of the Banque de France
Wilfrid Baumgartner, Governor of the Banque de France
Supply ChainPolitics
Bishop Adamski in annexed Katowice
Bishop Stanisław Adamski, bishop of Katowice
PoliticsPeopleResistanceAllies
Speer and the Germania trade-off
Albert Speer, Hitler's personal architect and Generalbauinspektor für die Reichshauptstadt
PoliticsEngineering & ProductionSupply ChainAxis
Salazar in Lisbon — under triple pressure
António de Oliveira Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal
PoliticsSupply ChainPeople
Nogara and the Vatican portfolio
Bernardino Nogara, financial adviser to the Vatican
PoliticsSupply Chain
Cardinal Hlond — the Vatican's instruction
Cardinal August Hlond, Primate of Poland, Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań
PoliticsPeopleAllies
De Valera — Leinster House, 2 September
Eamon de Valera, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Eire
PoliticsPeople
Stutthof — Pauly and the first contingent
SS-Sturmbannführer Max Pauly, first commandant of Stutthof
War crimesPeopleAxis
The French Conscript of the Phoney War
A draftee of the conscript class assigned to the Maginot Line
Civilian lifeDefensive
Chamberlain — 11:15 BST
Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleAllies
Bydgoszcz — 3 September
Civilian population and local authorities of Bydgoszcz
War crimesAllies
Belgium in 1939: neutrality or pick a side?
Belgian government and King Leopold III
PoliticsStrategyAllies
A student in 1939: enlist or keep studying?
A London School of Economics student
Civilian lifePoliticsAllies
Ludlow-Hewitt and Operation Nickel
Air Chief Marshal Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, commander-in-chief of Bomber Command
AirPoliticsAllies
Maurras and the phoney war
Charles Maurras, leader of Action française and journalist
PoliticsPeopleAllies
The Gold of the Bank of Poland — the destination of the SS Eocene
Ignacy Matuszewski, Polish Minister of Finance, and Halina Konopacka, Olympic champion
Supply ChainCovert opsPeoplePoliticsAllies
Starzyński — Mówi Warszawa
Stefan Starzyński, President (Mayor) of Warsaw
DefensivePoliticsPeopleAllies
Cardinal Sapieha — Krakow under Occupation
Adam Stefan Sapieha, Metropolitan Archbishop of Krakow
PoliticsPeopleResistanceAllies
Wizna — Raginis in the Górka bunker
Captain Władysław Raginis, commander of the Wizna fortified sector
CombatGroundDefensivePeopleAllies
The Saar Offensive — Gamelin at Vincennes
General Maurice Gamelin, Chief of the General Staff of French National Defence
EssentialsOffensiveStrategyPeopleAllies
Maczek — the Black Brigade at Tatarska Przełęcz
Colonel Stanisław Maczek, commanding the 10th Motorised Cavalry Brigade
GroundPeopleDefensiveAllies
Korczak — facing the siege of Warsaw
Henryk Goldszmit, known as Janusz Korczak, paediatrician and director of an orphanage
PeopleCivilian lifeAllies
Selbstschutz — Alvensleben in Pomerania
Ludolf von Alvensleben, commander of the Selbstschutz in West Prussia
War crimesPeopleAxis
The Bzura — Kutrzeba faces the trap
General Tadeusz Kutrzeba, commanding the Poznań Army
StrategyCombatGroundPeopleAllies
Hel — Unrug faces the German envoy
Rear Admiral Józef Unrug, commanding the Polish Fleet and coastal defence
NavalCombatDefensivePeopleAllies
Mieczysław Niedziałkowski — after the arrest
Mieczysław Niedziałkowski, leader of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS)
PoliticsResistanceAllies
The British Soldier Sent to France with the BEF
British soldier of the Expeditionary Force
CombatGroundPoliticsAllies
Lwów — Langner between 2 occupiers
General Władysław Langner, commanding the defence of Lwów
CombatGroundPoliticsPeopleAllies
Modlin — Thommée at the last fortress
General Wiktor Thommée, commanding the defence of the Modlin fortress
CombatGroundDefensivePeopleAllies
Praga — Rommel facing the siege
General Juliusz Rommel, commander of the Army of Warsaw
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
ORP Orzeł — Grudziński and the threat of internment
Lieutenant Commander Jan Grudziński, second-in-command and later captain of the ORP Orzeł
NavalPeople
Brześć — Plisowski faces Guderian
General Konstanty Plisowski, commanding the defence of Brześć fortress
CombatGroundDefensivePeopleAllies
ORP Wilk — Running the Danish Straits
Lieutenant-Commander Bogusław Krawczyk, commanding the ORP Wilk
NavalPeopleAllies
Lord Gort at Arras — the BEF's winter
General John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Viscount Gort, commander-in-chief of the BEF
GroundDefensive
Charles Lindbergh — at the NBC Microphone
Charles A. Lindbergh, American aviator and isolationist activist
PoliticsPeople
The White Ore of the Far North
Department of the Interior and the American aluminum industry
Supply Chain
Buy Each for Themselves or with a Single Voice
French economic envoy in London (mission entrusted by Édouard Daladier)
Supply ChainPoliticsAllies
Selling to Both Sides
Belgian government, Minister of Foreign Affairs Paul-Henri Spaak
Supply ChainPoliticsAllies
Rydz-Śmigły at Kuty — the directive of 17 September
Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Polish commander-in-chief
PoliticsStrategyPeopleAllies
Moscicki — the Succession from Bicaz
Ignacy Moscicki, President of the Polish Republic
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Beck in Bucharest — the Internee
Jozef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister
PoliticsPeopleAllies
HMS Courageous — Makeig-Jones after the Torpedoes
Captain William Tofield Makeig-Jones, commanding HMS Courageous
NavalCombatPeopleAllies
Horthy — faced with the German demand
Miklos Horthy, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary
PoliticsPeople
Polish pilots — the exit through Constanța
Lieutenant-Colonel Witold Urbanowicz and Captain Stanisław Skalski
AirStrategy
Tomaszów Lubelski — Piskor between 2 fronts
General Tadeusz Piskor, commanding Army Lublin
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
Estonia — Päts Facing the Ultimatum
Konstantin Päts, President of the Republic of Estonia
PoliticsPeople
Beria — the NKVD ordinance of 19 September
Lavrenty Beria, People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
EssentialsWar crimesIntelligencePeopleAxis
Grodno — the harcerze on Skidelska Street
Civilian defenders and scouts of Grodno
CombatGroundCivilian lifeAllies
Warsaw Under Siege: Feeding the City or the Front
Stefan Starzyński, Civil Commissioner and Mayor of Warsaw
Civilian lifeDefensivePeopleAllies
Roosevelt — revising the Neutrality Act
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
EssentialsPoliticsPeople
Heydrich — the Conference of 21 September
Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Sicherheitspolizei and the SD
EssentialsWar crimesIntelligencePeopleAxis
Czerniaków — the offer of the Judenrat
Adam Czerniaków, engineer, senator, president of the Council of the Jewish Community of Warsaw
PoliticsPeopleCivilian lifeWar crimesAllies
British rationing — Morrison and the principle
William S. Morrison, British Minister of Food
Supply ChainCivilian lifePoliticsAllies
Besieged Warsaw — a Hospital Short of Everything
A chief physician in a Warsaw hospital during the siege
Civilian lifeWar crimesDefensiveAllies
The Polish Second Bureau in Besieged Warsaw
An intelligence officer of the Polish Oddział II
IntelligenceCovert opsStrategyAllies
The University of Warsaw under the Bombs
Włodzimierz Antoniewicz, Rector of the University of Warsaw
PeopleWar crimesResistanceAllies
Tréand and La France au travail
Maurice Tréand, clandestine PCF cadre in charge of propaganda
PoliticsPeople
Daladier — Thorez's Defection
Edouard Daladier, President of the French Council
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Doussot — Special Brigade No. 1
Commissaire David Doussot, head of Special Brigade No. 1 of the Préfecture de Police
IntelligencePoliticsWar crimes
Ribbentrop in Moscow — the Accord of 28 September
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleAxis
Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski — Founding the SZP
General Michal Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, founder of the Sluzba Zwyciestwu Polski
ResistancePoliticsPeopleAllies
Anders in the Lubyanka
General Władysław Anders, commander of the Nowogródek Cavalry Brigade
PeoplePolitics
Sikorski — Paris, autumn 1939
General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Sosabowski — Coëtquidan, November 1939
Colonel Stanislaw Sosabowski, Polish officer in exile
StrategyPeopleAllies
Wytyczno — Orlik-Rückemann after Szack
General Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann, commanding the Border Protection Corps (KOP)
CombatGroundDefensivePeopleAllies
Schnurre in Moscow — the Commercial Agreement
Karl Schnurre, German economic negotiator
PoliticsSupply ChainStrategyAxis
Latvia — Ulmanis and the ultimatum of 5 October
Karlis Ulmanis, President and Prime Minister of Latvia
PoliticsPeople
The Gears of Neutrality
SKF (Svenska Kullagerfabriken) and the Swedish trade authorities
Supply Chain
The metal without which cannons cannot be forged
Germany, Ministry of War Economy
Supply ChainAxis
British Coal for the Winter of 1939
A senior official at the Mines Department (Board of Trade)
Supply ChainCivilian lifeStrategyAllies
The German Student Facing the Nazification of the University (1939)
A German medical student
Civilian lifePoliticsAxis
Kock — Kleeberg on the morning of 6 October
General Franciszek Kleeberg, commanding the Independent Operational Group Polesie
CombatGroundDefensivePeopleAllies
Hitler — the Reichstag Speech
Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleStrategyAxis
Greiser — the Priority of the Wartheland
Arthur Greiser, Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of the Reichsgau Wartheland
War crimesPoliticsPeopleAxis
Forster — Kashubians and Kociewiacy
Albert Forster, Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of the Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen
PoliticsWar crimesPeopleAxis
Piotrkow — Tenenberg Facing the Judenrat
Hans Drechsel, German commissioner of the Piotrkow district, and Zalman Tenenberg
War crimesPoliticsPeopleAxis
Sosnkowski — KSK, 27 November
General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Polish Minister of War in exile
PoliticsPeopleResistanceAllies
Vilnius — Smetona faces the ultimatum
Antanas Smetona, President of the Republic of Lithuania
PoliticsPeople
AB Aktion — planning at the Wawel
Hans Frank, Generalgouverneur of Poland, and SS-Brigadeführer Bruno Streckenbach
War crimesPoliticsAxis
Royal Oak — Prien in Scapa Flow
Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien, commanding U-47
NavalCombatPeopleAllies
The Shinkolobwe Ore — a Belgian industrialist confronting the Congo's uranium
Edgar Sengier, managing director of the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga
PeopleEngineering & ProductionSupply Chain
The Paris Barber and the Police Offer
A Parisian barber
IntelligenceCivilian lifePolitics
The Volksdeutscher and the Selbstschutz Call
Pomeranian Volksdeutsche
War crimesPoliticsResistanceAllies
Mannerheim — at the Defence Council
Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, President of the Finnish Defence Council
EssentialsDefensiveStrategyPeople
Goering — the economic mobilization plan
Hermann Goering, Generalfeldmarschall, head of the Four-Year Plan
EssentialsSupply ChainPoliticsPeopleAxis
Tokyo's wall of prices
Abe Nobuyuki Cabinet — Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Supply Chain
Lorenz and the Baltic Umsiedlung
Werner Lorenz, head of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VoMi)
PoliticsWar crimes
Pius XII — the Vatican, October 1939
Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli), pope
PoliticsPeople
Manstein at Liegnitz — the October memorandum
Generalleutnant Erich von Manstein, chief of staff of Heeresgruppe A
EssentialsStrategyPeopleAllies
Sumner Welles — Preparing the European Mission
Sumner Welles, American Under-Secretary of State
PoliticsPeople
Hans Frank — the taking of the Wawel
Hans Frank, Reich Minister without portfolio, future Generalgouverneur
PoliticsWar crimesPeopleAllies
Neutrality laws: open up arms sales?
The Roosevelt Administration and the U.S. Congress
EssentialsPolitics
Brauchitsch — Reich Chancellery, 5 November
Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-Chief of the Army
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsPeopleAxis
Kamiński and the Biuletyn — 5 November
Aleksander Kamiński, editor-in-chief of the Biuletyn Informacyjny
ResistancePeopleAllies
Tajne komplety — Kraków's Underground University
Stanisław Pigoń, professor of Polish literature, and Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński, rector of the Jagiellonian University
ResistanceAllies
The Kraków Student After the Sonderaktion Krakau
Polish student in Kraków
ResistanceWar crimesAllies
Elser in Munich — Bürgerbräukeller, 9.20 p.m.
Georg Elser, German cabinetmaker
Covert opsIntelligencePoliticsAxis
Pilecki — founding the TAP
Captain Witold Pilecki, reserve cavalry officer
ResistancePeopleAllies
Schellenberg at Venlo — Cafe Backus, 4:00 p.m.
SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Schellenberg, SD operations chief on the Dutch border
Covert opsIntelligencePoliticsAxis
Hitler and Fall Gelb — Setting the Date
Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich and Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAxis
A Schoolteacher of Poznań under the Wartheland
A Polish schoolteacher from Poznań
ResistanceCivilian lifePoliticsAllies
The Banned Czech University
A Czech professor at Charles University in Prague
ResistanceCivilian lifeWar crimes
Czech student raids: flee or hide?
A Czech medical student at Charles University
War crimesPoliticsCivilian life
Ouvry and the magnetic mine
Lieutenant Commander John Ouvry, mine disposal officer at HMS Vernon
Engineering & ProductionNavalAllies
HMS Rawalpindi — Kennedy at 3:47 p.m.
Captain Edward Coverley Kennedy, commanding HMS Rawalpindi
NavalCombatPeopleAllies
Pius XII — the Christmas allocution
Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli), Pope
PoliticsPeople
Mainila — the Cajander government's response
Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, and the Cajander government
EssentialsPoliticsAxis
Maciej Rataj — Filtrowa Street, 28 November
Maciej Rataj, former President of the Polish Sejm
PeopleResistanceWar crimesAllies
Lotta Svärd — Luukkonen and mobilisation
Fanni Luukkonen, president of the Lotta Svärd Central Union
Civilian lifePeople
Petsamo — Pennanen on the Arctic coast
Captain Antti Pennanen, commanding the frontier garrison of Petsamo
CombatGroundDefensive
Wallenius — defending 700 km of Lapland
General Kurt Martti Wallenius, commanding the Lapland Group
DefensiveGround
Helsinki under the bombs — 30 November
Helsinki civilians and the civil defence authorities
AirCivilian lifeWar crimes
Tiilikainen at Yle — the war microphone
Pekka Tiilikainen, reporter for Yleisradio (Yle)
PeopleCivilian life
Smushkevich — report to Stalin
Yakov Smushkevich, head of the VVS RKKA (Soviet air force)
AirStrategyPeopleAxis
Aalto-Setälä — passive defence
Toivo Aalto-Setälä, civil engineer, head of passive defence in Helsinki
DefensiveEngineering & Production
The tank of the future or the tanks of today?
Inspectorate of Tanks of the French Army
Engineering & ProductionSupply ChainAllies
The Jewish Schoolteacher of Kazimierz
A Jewish schoolteacher from the Kazimierz district of Kraków
War crimesCivilian lifeResistanceAllies
Kuusinen — Terijoki, 1 December
Otto Wille Kuusinen, Secretary of the Comintern, designated by Moscow to lead a Finnish "People's Government"
PoliticsPeopleAxis
Hackenberg — a poilu on the Maginot
French soldier garrisoning the Maginot Line
Civilian lifeGroundAllies
Salla — Lagus against the 9th Army
Colonel Roine Lagus, commanding the Finnish Salla Brigade
CombatGroundDefensive
Ryti — Prime Minister on 2 December
Risto Ryti, Governor of the Bank of Finland, becomes Prime Minister
PoliticsPeople
Erkko — the minister of 1 December
Eljas Erkko, outgoing Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs
PoliticsPeople
Sandler against the Hansson Council
Rickard Sandler, outgoing Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs
PoliticsPeople
Müller in Rome — the Vatican channel
Joseph Müller, German Catholic lawyer, agent of the resistance
PoliticsCovert opsPeopleAxis
Carol II in Bucharest — Romania Courted
Carol II, King of Romania
PoliticsPeopleSupply Chain
Cvetković under pressure
Dragiša Cvetković, Yugoslav Prime Minister
PoliticsPeople
Lahti at Tikkakoski — tripling production
Aimo Lahti, chief engineer of the Tikkakoski arms factory
Engineering & ProductionSupply Chain
Boris III in Sofia — Bulgaria Between the Powers
Boris III, Tsar of the Bulgarians
PoliticsPeople
Kukiel at Crawford — first Scottish winter
General Marian Kukiel, commanding the 1st Polish Brigade in Britain
GroundAllies
Vinson and the Two-Ocean Navy Act
Carl Vinson, Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee
EssentialsStrategyNavalSupply ChainPolitics
The great winter at the front
You play a French soldier of the Phoney War
Civilian lifeAllies
Suomussalmi — Siilasvuo against the 163rd
Colonel Hjalmar Siilasvuo, commanding the Finnish 9th Division
CombatGroundDefensivePeople
Svensson on the Kollaa front
Major-General Antero Svensson, commanding the 12th Finnish Division
CombatGroundDefensivePeople
Quisling in Berlin — facing Rosenberg
Vidkun Quisling, former Norwegian Minister of Defence, leader of the Nasjonal Samling
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleAllies
Pajari at Tolvajärvi — 12 December, 04:00
Lieutenant Colonel Aaro Pajari, commanding Battle Group P
CombatGroundPeopleDefensive
Harwood against the Graf Spee
Commodore Henry Harwood, commanding Force G of the South American Division
EssentialsNavalCombatPeopleOffensive
The League of Nations faces Soviet aggression
Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General of the League of Nations
PoliticsPeople
Starving Warsaw: turn to the black market?
Polish student
Civilian lifeSupply ChainAllies
Convoy HX 21 — Wake-Walker at Halifax
Commodore Frederick Wake-Walker, commanding convoy HX 21
NavalSupply ChainPeople
What to do with the old Renault FT tanks?
Infantry Directorate, Ministry of War
Supply Chain
Langsdorff at Montevideo — 17 December
Kapitän zur See Hans Langsdorff, commanding the Admiral Graf Spee
NavalPeoplePolitics
Häyhä — the marksman of Kollaa
Corporal Simo Häyhä, sniper in the Finnish 34th Infantry Regiment
CombatGroundPeopleDefensive
Juutilainen — the pilot of LeLv 24
Corporal Ilmari Juutilainen, fighter pilot in LeLv 24
AirCombatPeople
Stalin at 60 — Hitler at the Kremlin
Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
PoliticsPeopleAxis
Joulun rauha — Christmas 1939 in the trenches
Finnish soldier on duty
Civilian lifePeople
Kuhmo — Vuokko and the great encirclement
Colonel Antero Vuokko, commanding the Finnish Kuhmo Brigade
CombatGroundOffensive
Raate — Vinogradov on the frozen road
Major General Aleksei Vinogradov, commanding the Soviet 44th Motorised Division
CombatGroundDefensivePeopleAxis
Mannerheim — the Order of the Day, 1 January
Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish commander-in-chief
PoliticsPeople
Neutral Belgium — let the Allies in?
Léopold III and the Belgian government
PoliticsStrategyAllies
Winter rationing
You play a British or French housewife
Supply ChainCivilian lifeAllies
Bohusz-Szyszko at Coëtquidan
General Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko, commander of the Samodzielna Brygada Strzelców Podhalańskich
GroundPolitics
Mechelen — Reinberger, 10 January 11:30
Major Hellmuth Reinberger, staff officer of the German 7th Airborne Division
IntelligencePeopleAxis
The Mechelen incident (captured plans)
The Belgian high command
EssentialsIntelligenceDefensiveAllies
Dönitz at Sengwarden — U-boats Held in Port
Konteradmiral Karl Dönitz, head of the German U-boat fleet (BdU)
NavalStrategyEngineering & ProductionAxis
Gamelin at Vincennes — a Doctrine to Choose
General Maurice Gamelin, French commander-in-chief
EssentialsStrategyDefensiveAllies
The blockade of Germany
The Allied economic-warfare command
StrategyNavalAllies
Mobilised at the border
You play a mobilised Belgian soldier
Civilian lifeAllies
The war of the airwaves
You play a French listener faced with enemy radio
PoliticsAllies
Béthouart at Briançon — Narvik Called Off
General Antoine Béthouart, commanding the High Mountain Brigade
GroundPeople
Morale on the home front
You play a French civilian on the home front
Civilian lifeAllies
HMS Exmouth in the Moray Firth
Captain Richard Bowden, commanding officer of HMS Exmouth
NavalPoliticsAllies
Pajala — Khorov on 21 January
Captain Boris Khorov, commander of the Soviet bomber flight
AirPoliticsCivilian lifeAxis
Hitler at the Sportpalast — 30 January, 8 pm
Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich
PoliticsPeopleAxis
Timoshenko at Summa — 11 February
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, commanding the Soviet North-Western Front
CombatGroundOffensiveAxis
French propaganda: reassure or tell the truth?
The French propaganda services
PoliticsAllies
Should Finland be helped?
The Supreme Inter-Allied Council (France, United Kingdom)
StrategyPolitics
The plan to attack Narvik and the iron mines
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty
StrategyNaval
The Manstein Plan Under Debate
Erich von Manstein and the German high command
EssentialsStrategyOffensiveAxis
HMS Sphinx at Kinnaird Head
Lieutenant-Commander John Taylor, commanding officer of HMS Sphinx
NavalDefensivePeopleAllies
The Supreme Allied Council faces Finland
General Maxime Weygand, commander-in-chief in the Levant, and Lord Hankey, British coordinating minister
StrategyPoliticsOffensiveAllies
Reynaud against Daladier — February 1940
Paul Reynaud, French Minister of Finance
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Biebow at Litzmannstadt — 8 February
Hans Biebow, administrative head (Gettoverwaltung) of the Łódź ghetto
War crimesSupply ChainPoliticsAllies
Serov — 10 February 06:00 at Lwów
Colonel Ivan Serov, commander of NKVD operations in eastern Poland
War crimesIntelligencePoliticsAxis
Lähde — Yakovlev against the Mannerheim bolt
General Vsevolod Yakovlev, commanding the Soviet 7th Army on the Isthmus
CombatGroundOffensiveAxis
Tanner in Moscow — the delegation of 6 March
Väinö Tanner, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs
EssentialsPoliticsPeople
Poles and Czechs in France
The Polish and Czechoslovak servicemen in exile
PoliticsAllies
The enemy's coal or the ally's
Benito Mussolini and the Italian government (Under-Secretariat for War Production)
Supply Chain
Vian in the Jøssingfjord
Captain Philip Vian, commanding HMS Cossack
NavalPoliticsPeople
The Altmark affair
The captain of the British destroyer HMS Cossack
NavalCombatPoliticsAllies
Talvela at Vyborg — 17 February
Major-General Paavo Talvela, commanding the Vyborg sector
CombatGroundDefensiveCivilian life
HMS Daring in the Pentland Firth
Lieutenant Commander Sydney Cooper, commanding HMS Daring
NavalCombatPeopleAllies
Intelligence and the Ardennes
The Deuxième Bureau (French military intelligence)
EssentialsIntelligenceAllies
The Heavy Water of Vemork — a Race Against Germany
Raoul Dautry, Minister of Armament
Supply ChainIntelligence
Welles at the Palazzo Venezia
Sumner Welles, US Under-Secretary of State
PoliticsPeople
Ceded Karelia: leave or stay under Soviet rule?
Karelian families
Civilian lifeDefensive
Mannerheim to the Ryti government — 28 February
Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, commander-in-chief
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyPeople
Mannerheim and the Cross — designing the order
Marshal Mannerheim, commander-in-chief
Politics
Weserübung — directive of 1 March
Adolf Hitler with Raeder, Falkenhorst, Jodl
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsNavalAxis
Baku in the crosshairs — Operation Pike
General Maurice Gamelin, Allied Commander-in-Chief (French)
StrategyAirPoliticsAllies
Welles with Hitler — 2 March 11:00
Sumner Welles, US Under Secretary of State
PoliticsPeopleAxis
The Lubyanka — the Fate of 22,000 Polish Prisoners
Lavrenti Beria, People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, chief of the NKVD (Soviet)
EssentialsWar crimesIntelligenceAxis
The Upper Silesian Pole Subjected to Forced Labour
Polish worker from Upper Silesia
Supply ChainCivilian lifePoliticsAllies
Civilian supply: should food be rationed?
The Daladier government and a Parisian consumer
Supply ChainCivilian lifePolitics
Welles in London — 11-13 March
Sumner Welles, US Under Secretary of State
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Moscow Peace — Ryti at the Kremlin
Risto Ryti, Finnish Prime Minister, and Finnish delegation
PoliticsPeople
Mannerheim — the order facing Viipuri
Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finnish Commander-in-Chief
StrategyDefensiveGround
Assessment of the Winter War — 13 March
Historians / meta-historical
StrategyPolitics
The Brenner Pass meeting
Benito Mussolini, head of the Italian government (Duce of Fascism)
PoliticsStrategy
Reynaud — Matignon 21 March
Paul Reynaud, new French Président du Conseil
PoliticsPeopleStrategyAllies
Mining the Rhine — Operation Royal Marine
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the British Admiralty
StrategyNavalPoliticsAllies
Opel under the wartime Reich: what does General Motors do?
General Motors leadership (Alfred P. Sloan, James D. Mooney, GM Overseas Operations), Detroit / New York
Supply ChainPolitics
Chamberlain at Central Hall — 4 April
Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister
PoliticsPeopleAllies
HMS Glowworm against the Admiral Hipper
Lieutenant-Commander Gerard Roope, commanding HMS Glowworm
NavalCombatPeople
Christian X faces the ultimatum — 9 April
Christian X, King of Denmark, and the Stauning-Munch government
PoliticsPeople
Quisling at Radio Oslo — 19:32
Vidkun Quisling, leader of Nasjonal Samling
PoliticsPeople
Dietl in the fjords — Narvik defence
Generalleutnant Eduard Dietl, commanding 3. Gebirgs-Division
CombatGroundDefensive
Oscarsborg — the intruder in the Oslofjord
Colonel Birger Eriksen, commander of Oscarsborg fortress (Norwegian)
EssentialsNavalDefensiveCombatAllies
Fornebu — the transports under fire
Hauptmann Richard Wagner, commanding the German air landing on Oslo
AirOffensiveCombatAxis
Odderoya — an identity in the mist
Officers of the Odderoya coastal fort, Kristiansand (Norwegians)
NavalDefensiveCombatAllies
The Danish customs officer on the morning of 9 April 1940
A Danish customs officer at Padborg
Civilian lifePolitics
Haakon VII at Nybergsund — 10 April
Haakon VII, King of Norway
PoliticsPeople
Warburton-Lee in the Ofotfjord — 10 April
Captain Bernard Warburton-Lee, commanding the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla
NavalCombatPeople
Bergen — the Skuas at extreme range
Squadron commander of Blackburn Skuas, Fleet Air Arm (British)
AirNavalOffensiveAllies
Gudbrandsdal — Ruge and the Allied Plans
General Otto Ruge, Commander-in-Chief of the Norwegian army
StrategyGroundDefensiveAllies
Whitworth and the Warspite — 13 April
Vice-Admiral William Whitworth, commanding the British Attack Force
NavalCombatOffensivePeopleAllies
Carton de Wiart at Namsos — Mauriceforce
Lieutenant-General Adrian Carton de Wiart, commanding 'Mauriceforce'
CombatGround
Bletchley breaks the Norway Enigma
Direction of the Government Code & Cypher School (British)
IntelligenceStrategyAllies
The Czech Schoolteacher and the Wehrmacht Officer
Czech schoolteacher
Civilian lifeResistance
Paget at Åndalsnes — Sickleforce
Major-General Bernard Paget, commanding 'Sickleforce'
GroundCombatDefensivePeople
Oslo — how to govern occupied Norway
Adolf Hitler, head of the German state (decision applied to Oslo)
PoliticsAxis
Narvik — too senior an admiral
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cork and Orrery, Allied commander at Narvik (British)
NavalStrategyCombatAllies
War council — leave central Norway?
Neville Chamberlain and the British War Cabinet
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyDefensiveAllies
Łódź — the Order to Seal Off the Jewish Quarter
A German official of the Litzmannstadt municipal administration
War crimesPoliticsAxis
Balbo at Tripoli and the Coming War
Maresciallo Italo Balbo, Governor-General of Libya and Commander-in-Chief in North Africa
PoliticsPeople
The Luftwaffe and the Choice of Targets
An officer of the Luftwaffe planning staff (German)
StrategyAirAxis
The fifth-column psychosis
You play a Belgian gendarme
Civilian lifePoliticsAllies
The real fifth column
The Allied security services facing the genuine agents
Intelligence
The strafed roads
You play a refugee on the roads
Civilian lifeAir
The gold of the National Bank
The directors of the National Bank of Belgium
Supply Chain
The Fear of the Franc-Tireur
The German command in occupied Belgium
War crimesAxis
The roads for the refugees or for the army
The Allied military command (movements and roads)
Supply ChainCivilian life
Sabotaging the fuel depots
The Allied command (depots and stocks)
Supply ChainCovert ops
The French exodus
You play a French family
Civilian lifeAllies
The Long Columns of Prisoners
You play a prisoner on the roads
Civilian life
The nation's gold against the invader
Governor and leadership of the Banque de France
Supply Chain
The Secretaries-General — Stay or Resign
The secretaries-general of the Belgian ministries
PoliticsAllies
The Foreign Volunteers
You play a foreign volunteer enlistee in the French army
Civilian lifeAllies
Norway Debate — 7-8 May
Conservative and Labour British MPs
EssentialsPoliticsAllies
Oster and the Imminent Offensive
Generalmajor Hans Oster, deputy chief of the Abwehr (German resistance)
IntelligenceResistancePeopleAxis
Churchill — Buckingham 10 May 18:00
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty
EssentialsPoliticsAllies
Fall Gelb — the order of 9 May 20:00
Adolf Hitler with OKH
EssentialsOffensiveGroundStrategyAxis
Eben-Emael — gliders on the roof
Oberleutnant Rudolf Witzig, commanding Sturmgruppe Granit
CombatGroundOffensiveEngineering & Production
Eben-Emael — Jottrand under the explosions
Major Jean Jottrand, commanding the garrison of Fort Eben-Emael, Belgian army
DefensiveGroundCombatPeopleAllies
Vroenhoven Bridge — Gliders at Dawn
Lieutenant Crisse, officer of the 18th Belgian Line Regiment, guard of the Vroenhoven bridge
DefensiveGroundCombatAllies
Veldwezelt bridge — Beert and the demolition officer
Lieutenant Beert and Captain Giddelo (demolition officer), 18th Belgian Line Regiment
DefensiveGroundCombatAllies
Kanne bridge — fourth airborne target
Lieutenant Leon Rohling, officer of the 18th Belgian Line Regiment, guard of the Kanne bridge
DefensiveGroundCombatAllies
Ypenburg — German paras outside The Hague
Oberst Otto Sponheimer, commanding a Fallschirmjäger regiment, German army
AirOffensiveCombatAxis
Waalhaven — assault on the Rotterdam airfield
Oberstleutnant Dietrich von Choltitz, 16. Infanterie-Regiment (22. Luftlande-Division), German army
AirOffensiveGroundAxis
Valkenburg — paras on a grass strip
Oberst Hans Heyser and Leutnant von Plessen, German airborne force at Valkenburg
AirOffensiveCombatDefensiveAxis
Maastricht — Govers facing the armour at 04:35
Lieutenant-Colonel Govers, territorial commander of South Limburg, Dutch army
DefensiveGroundCombatAllies
Manstein watches his plan — Koblenz, 10 May
Generalleutnant Erich von Manstein, commanding the XXXVIII. Armeekorps in reserve, German
StrategyPeopleAxis
Commanding a battle without radio
General Maurice Gamelin, generalissimo of Allied forces, French
StrategyPeopleAllies
Belgian border — leave or wait out the storm
Belgian family fleeing the invasion
Civilian lifeAllies
Bodange — Bricart and the Chasseurs Ardennais
Commandant Maurice Bricart, 1st Regiment of Chasseurs Ardennais
CombatGroundDefensive
The Chasseurs Ardennais facing the breakthrough
The Belgian general staff of the Ardennes covering position
DefensiveGroundAllies
The fort of Aubin-Neufchâteau
The commander of the fort of Aubin-Neufchâteau (fortified position of Liège)
CombatDefensiveGround
Leopold III Faces the Invasion
King Leopold III of the Belgians, commander-in-chief of the army
PoliticsStrategyAllies
Flee or Stay — a Belgian Family, May 1940
You play a Belgian family
Civilian lifeAllies
Ganshof and the "suspects"
Walter Ganshof van der Meersch, Auditor General of Belgium
War crimesIntelligence
Eben-Emael — the Fortress Deemed Impregnable
Lieutenant Rudolf Witzig, Luftwaffe gliders
EssentialsCombatAirOffensiveAxis
The bridges of the Albert Canal
The Belgian engineers of the Albert Canal bridges
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
Belgium 1940: how far forward to push the Allied line?
The Allied command (Gamelin, the Belgian general staff)
EssentialsStrategyAllies
Chasseurs Ardennais — the Delaying Mission
The Chasseurs Ardennais and the Belgian engineers
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
Belgian air force: disperse or concentrate the planes?
The command of the Belgian military aeronautics
AirDefensiveAllies
Student — Where to Strike from the Air
General Kurt Student, German airborne troops
CombatAirOffensiveAxis
The bridge at Gennep and the Brandenburgers
The German Brandenburg commandos
CombatCovert opsAxis
Under the bombs — the Belgian towns
You play a resident of a Belgian town
Civilian lifeAllies
Luxembourg invaded
The Luxembourg government and Grand Duchess Charlotte
PoliticsPeople
The garrison of Ében-Émael
The Belgian garrison of the fort of Ében-Émael
CombatDefensiveAllies
Churchill in power
Winston Churchill, the new British Prime Minister
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleAllies
The charges are set beneath the deck
Belgian military engineers and Bridges and Roads engineers
CombatDefensiveAllies
Shell: save the head office from invasion?
Management of the Royal Dutch / Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij group
Supply Chain
The Campaign's Toll — 10 May to 25 June
Military historian (retrospective perspective)
StrategyGround
Reinhardt stuck in the Ardennes — 11 May
Generalleutnant Hans-Georg Reinhardt, commanding the XLI. Armeekorps, German
OffensiveGroundAxis
Hold the Albert Canal or withdraw
The command of the Belgian army
StrategyDefensiveAllies
The Grebbeberg
The Dutch command of the Grebbe line
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
The tank battle of Hannut
General René Prioux, French Cavalry Corps
CombatGroundAllies
The fortified position of Liège
The Belgian command of the fortified position of Liège
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
The Houx weir
The German advance guard at Houx
CombatGroundOffensiveAxis
The Maastricht Bridges — the Battles' Mission
The crews of the RAF's Fairey Battle bombers
AirCombatOffensiveAllies
The fort of Battice isolated
The garrison of the fort of Battice
CombatDefensive
The bridges of the Meuse
The Belgian engineers on the Meuse (Namur, Dinant)
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
Breda: evacuate 50,000 people or shelter them?
Mayor and municipal administration of Breda
Civilian life
Wilhelmina — Hoek van Holland 13 May
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
PoliticsPeople
Sedan — Guderian on the Meuse
General der Panzertruppe Heinz Guderian, commanding XIX. Panzerkorps
EssentialsCombatGroundOffensiveAxis
Rommel before the Meuse — Dinant, 13 May
Generalmajor Erwin Rommel, commanding the 7. Panzer-Division, German
CombatGroundOffensivePeopleAxis
Huntziger over the Sedan reports — 13 May
General Charles Huntziger, commanding the French 2nd Army
DefensiveGroundPeopleAllies
Monthermé — Portzert in the Meuse loop
Colonel Marcel Portzert, commanding the 102e Demi-brigade d'Infanterie de Forteresse, French
CombatDefensiveGroundPeopleAllies
The crossing of the Meuse at Dinant
Erwin Rommel, commander of the 7th Panzer Division
EssentialsCombatGroundOffensiveAxis
Wilhelmina and the Continuity of the State
Queen Wilhelmine of the Netherlands
PoliticsPeople
Tank Alarm at Bulson
The artillery of the French 55th Infantry Division
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
The Monthermé bottleneck
General Georg-Hans Reinhardt, XXXXI Panzer Corps
CombatGroundOffensive
Sedan: massive strike or relentless harassment?
The Luftwaffe command at Sedan
AirCombatAxis
Grossdeutschland crosses at Sedan
The assault infantry of the Grossdeutschland regiment
OffensiveGroundCombat
The French engineers at Sedan
The French engineers of the Sedan sector
DefensiveEngineering & ProductionCombatAllies
Rotterdam — 100 He 111s over the city
Oberst Albrecht Hoffmann, commanding KG 54 'Totenkopf'
CombatAirWar crimes
Bulson — Lafontaine and the 02:00 rumour
General Pierre Lafontaine, commanding the 55th Infantry Division, French
CombatGroundDefensivePeopleAllies
Gort at Habarcq — trust in the French plan
Field Marshal John Vereker, Lord Gort, commander-in-chief of the BEF, British
StrategyGroundDefensivePeopleAllies
Winkelman after Rotterdam — 14 May
Generaal Henri Winkelman, Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch armed forces
DefensiveStrategyPeopleAllies
The Gembloux gap
The command of the French 1st Army
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
Rotterdam under the threat from the air
The Luftwaffe command
War crimesAirAxis
Winkelman and the fate of the Netherlands
General Henri Winkelman, Dutch commander-in-chief
StrategyDefensivePoliticsAllies
The collapse of the 9th Army
General André Corap, French 9th Army
StrategyGroundAllies
Stonne — Billotte facing the Panzer column
Captain Pierre Billotte, 1st company of the 41st BCC, French
CombatGroundDefensivePeopleAllies
Stonne, the Lock South of Sedan
The French command south of Sedan
CombatGroundAllies
The fortified position of Namur
The Belgian and French command of the Namur position
DefensiveGroundAllies
Flavion — the 1st DCR run dry
General Bruneau, French 1st Armoured Division
CombatGroundAllies
Dowding and the fighters
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding (Fighter Command)
EssentialsAirStrategyAllies
FN Herstal: save the arms plant or destroy it?
Gustave Joassart, managing director of the Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (deputy director René Laloux)
Supply Chain
Wilton-Fijenoord: the shipyard's management faces the occupier
Management of the Wilton-Fijenoord shipyard (W. Wilton, C.H. Teschmacher, J.H.H. Verloop)
Supply ChainPolitics
The RAF Bombs Germany
British Bomber Command
AirStrategyAllies
Guderian and the stop order
Heinz Guderian, commander of the XIX Armoured Corps
EssentialsOffensiveGroundStrategy
The Panzers' logistical gamble
The supply services of the German armoured divisions
Supply ChainAxis
Rommel's 7th Panzer Through the Breach
Erwin Rommel, 7th Panzer Division
OffensiveGroundAxis
De Gaulle and the 4th DCR — 17 May
Colonel Charles de Gaulle, commanding 4e Division cuirassée de réserve
CombatGroundOffensiveAllies
Hitler at the Felsennest — the anguish of the flanks
Adolf Hitler, Führer and supreme commander of the Wehrmacht, at his field headquarters
StrategyPeopleAxis
Rommel before the Serre — the Crécy bridge
Generalmajor Erwin Rommel, commanding the 7. Panzer-Division, German
CombatGroundOffensivePeopleAxis
The hero of Verdun recalled from Madrid
Marshal Philippe Pétain, French ambassador in Madrid, French
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleAllies
Pierlot at Limoges — from where to carry on?
Hubert Pierlot, Prime Minister of Belgium
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Brussels threatened: defend or spare the city?
The authorities of Brussels
DefensivePolitics
De Gaulle at Montcornet
Colonel Charles de Gaulle, 4th Armoured Division
CombatGroundAllies
Castle Bromwich: car assembly lines to build the Spitfire
Ministry of Aircraft Production (Lord Beaverbrook) and the Nuffield Organization
Supply ChainAllies
Daladier asked to leave the War Ministry
Edouard Daladier, Minister of National Defence and War, French
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Mölders above the columns — 18 May
Hauptmann Werner Mölders, Gruppenkommandeur of III./JG 53 'Pik As', Luftwaffe
AirWar crimesPeopleAxis
Weygand — Vincennes 20 May 02:00
Maxime Weygand, new French commander-in-chief
StrategyGroundPeopleAllies
Gamelin's Last Hours in Command
General Maurice Gamelin, generalissimo on the way out, French
StrategyPeopleOffensiveAllies
40 tonnes of gold trapped at Ostend
Belgian authorities and the crew of the trawler A4
Supply ChainPoliticsAllies
Abbeville — the roads under the fighters
Civilians on the roads of the Somme
War crimesAir
Abbeville — the fate of the internees
The French military escort of the internees transferred to Abbeville
War crimesAllies
Eindhoven under the heel: the lamp empire put to the test
Philips factory management and the Philips family
Supply ChainPolitics
Reinhardt toward the ports — the Arras threat
Generalleutnant Hans-Georg Reinhardt, commanding the XLI. Armeekorps, German
OffensiveGroundAxis
Arras — the Matildas against Rommel's flank
Major-General Harold Franklyn, commanding Frankforce, British
OffensiveGroundCombatAllies
Frankforce South of Arras
British General Harold Franklyn (Frankforce)
CombatGroundAllies
The death of Billotte
General Gaston Billotte, coordinator of the armies of the North
Strategy
The Panzer Corridor to the Channel
General Weygand and the Allied command
Strategy
The Defence of Boulogne
The British and French garrison of Boulogne
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
Boulogne — Fox-Pitt and the Guards facing the port
Brigadier William Fox-Pitt, commanding 20th Guards Brigade, British
DefensiveCombatGroundNavalAllies
Göring at Carinhall — Dunkirk on the Line
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, German
EssentialsStrategyAirPoliticsPeopleAxis
Belgian army at its limit: hold the Lys or pull back?
The Belgian high command on the Lys
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
Halt-Befehl — Charleville 24 May 12:30
Adolf Hitler with Rundstedt, von Brauchitsch, Halder
EssentialsStrategyPolitics
The Panzers at the Gates of Dunkirk
The German high command (Hitler, Rundstedt)
EssentialsStrategyAxis
The Defence of Calais
Brigadier Claude Nicholson, Calais garrison
CombatGroundDefensive
The Last Stand on the Lys
The Belgian army command on the Lys
CombatDefensiveAllies
Halifax at the War Cabinet — 25 May 18:00
Edward Wood, Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleAllies
Calais — Nicholson facing the ultimatum
Brigadier Claude Nicholson, commanding 30th Infantry Brigade, British
DefensiveCombatGroundPeopleAllies
Himmler's memorandum to the Führer
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS (German)
EssentialsWar crimesPoliticsAxis
Lord Gort and the Collapsing Front
Lord Gort, commander of the British Expeditionary Force
EssentialsStrategyAllies
Reynaud in London — 26 May
Paul Reynaud, French Président du Conseil
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Ramsay at Dover Castle — Dynamo
Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay, Flag Officer Dover
EssentialsNavalDefensivePeopleAllies
The War Cabinet — Negotiate or Carry On
The British War Cabinet (Churchill, Halifax)
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAllies
The Little Ships — call of 27 May
English civilian small-boat owners
NavalCivilian lifeAllies
Dunkirk — Tennant and the devastated port
Captain William Tennant, Senior Naval Officer at Dunkirk, British
NavalDefensivePeopleAllies
Le Paradis — the barn at Cornet-Malo
SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein, SS-Totenkopf (German)
War crimesPeopleAxis
Vinkt — the suspicion of francs-tireurs
The officers of the German 225th Infantry Division
War crimesAxis
The Capitulation of 28 May
Leopold III, commander-in-chief of the Belgian army
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAllies
Churchill before the 25 ministers — 28 May 18:00
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleAllies
Léopold III — Wijnendaele 28 May
Léopold III, King of the Belgians, commander-in-chief of the Belgian army
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Lille — Molinié and the 5th DINA
General Jean-Baptiste Molinié, commanding the 5th DINA
CombatGroundDefensive
Wormhoudt — the 7th company SS-LAH
SS-Hauptsturmführer Wilhelm Mohnke, 7th company SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
War crimesPeopleAxis
Narvik Taken — the War Cabinet's Dilemma
General Antoine Bethouart and the British War Cabinet
DefensiveNavalCombatAllies
Tancrémont — the order to surrender
Commandant Devos, fort of Tancrémont (Pepinster)
DefensiveCombat
Molinié Encircled in Lille — May 1940
General Jean-Baptiste Molinié, French rearguard
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
The Isolated Soldier after the Capitulation
You play an isolated Belgian soldier
Civilian lifeAllies
De Gaulle at Abbeville
General de Gaulle, 4th Armoured Division
CombatGroundOffensiveAllies
Leopold III — London or Laeken
Leopold III, King of the Belgians
EssentialsPoliticsAllies
The Pierlot Government and the King
The Pierlot government, abroad
Politics
Waiting on the Beaches
You play a British soldier on the beach
DefensiveAllies
Dunkirk: the Beach Under the Bombs
A British soldier of the BEF on the beach at Dunkirk
GroundCivilian lifeDefensiveAllies
The Little Ships of Dunkirk
You play a requisitioned British pleasure-boat owner
NavalAllies
Dunkirk: a British gunner facing his own guns
A British BEF gunner, the Dunkirk perimeter
GroundSupply ChainAllies
The "little ships" of Dunkirk
The civilian owner of a small pleasure boat, Kent coast
Civilian lifeAllies
Dunkirk: should the French be saved alongside the British?
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyAllies
The French Rearguard at Dunkirk
The French rearguard troops at Dunkirk
CombatDefensiveAllies
Saint-Exupéry — flight of Groupe 2/33
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, reconnaissance pilot captain, Groupe 2/33
AirPeopleCombat
Beauffrère and the 21st RIC at Dunkirk
Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Beauffrère, 21st Colonial Infantry Regiment
CombatGroundPeople
Mussolini at the Palazzo Venezia — early June
Benito Mussolini, head of the Italian government (Duce)
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyPeople
The French in London — Who Joins?
French soldiers evacuated to the United Kingdom
ResistanceAllies
Sartre Prisoner — Stalag XII D
Jean-Paul Sartre, private 2nd class (meteorological service)
PeopleAxis
Graziani inherits the Libyan desert
Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, commander-in-chief of Italian North Africa (Italy)
StrategyGroundOffensive
Roosevelt — Arm England?
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
The Galopin Doctrine — whether to produce under the occupier
Alexandre Galopin, governor of the Société Générale de Belgique
Supply ChainPolitics
Hide the Weapons or Hand Them In
You play a Belgian war veteran
ResistanceAllies
The Press under German Control
The editor-in-chief of a major Belgian daily
PoliticsCivilian lifeAllies
An Allied Soldier at Your Door
You play a Belgian family
ResistanceAllies
After the Exodus — Return or Stay
You play a Belgian family, refugees in France
Civilian lifeAllies
1.8 million prisoners
You play a French prisoner of war
Civilian lifeAllies
The reckoning of a campaign
You play a military analyst
Strategy
Grounded pilot: reach England or stay put?
You play a Belgian or French pilot
AirResistanceAllies
The French navy disperses
Admiral Darlan and the command of the French Navy
EssentialsNavalStrategyAllies
The price in blood
You play an analyst
CombatGround
The Empire — Vichy or de Gaulle
You play a French colonial governor
PoliticsStrategyAllies
Hannah Arendt, Stateless and Interned, Facing Exile
Hannah Arendt, stateless German philosopher
PeoplePoliticsCivilian lifeAxis
The Dunkirk Rearguard
A British rearguard officer, Dunkirk perimeter
GroundDefensiveAllies
Dunkirk: who stays with the wounded?
A British military doctor, Dunkirk casualty clearing station
GroundCivilian lifeAllies
Tennant — the last ship from the east mole
Captain William Tennant, Senior Naval Officer at Dunkirk
NavalDefensivePeople
Ramsay — Dover, 14:23
Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay, commanding at Dover
NavalPeoplePoliticsAllies
Churchill before the Commons — 4 June
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleAllies
De Gaulle joins the government — 5 June
Charles de Gaulle, brigadier general (temporary rank)
PoliticsStrategyPeopleAllies
Touchon on the Aisne — Fall Rot
General Robert Touchon, commanding French 6th Army
StrategyGroundDefensiveCombatAllies
The Weygand Line on the Somme
General Maxime Weygand, French commander-in-chief
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
Nygaardsvold at Tromsø — 7 June
Johan Nygaardsvold, Prime Minister of Norway
PoliticsPeople
Dowding — Keep the Fighters?
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, head of Fighter Command, British
StrategyAirDefensiveAllies
De Gaulle calls on Churchill — 9 June
Charles de Gaulle, Under-Secretary of State for War
PoliticsStrategyPeopleAllies
When the Louvre Must Vanish
Jacques Jaujard, director of the Musees nationaux, and the staff of the Louvre
PeopleCivilian life
Ciano and the Duce's Order — 10 June
Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister
PoliticsPeopleAxis
Mussolini on the balcony — 10 June, 18:00
Benito Mussolini, head of the Italian government (Duce)
PoliticsPeopleAxis
Roosevelt at Charlottesville — 10 June
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
PoliticsPeople
Paris won't be defended: flee with your family?
A Parisian family
Civilian life
A Schoolteacher at Périgueux Amid the Exodus
Dordogne schoolteacher
Civilian life
The Flamenpolitik of the Prisoners of War
A Walloon soldier held as a prisoner of war
Civilian lifePolitics
Mussolini and the entry into the war
Benito Mussolini, head of the Italian government
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAxis
June 1940: the Mona Lisa at Chambord, the Enemy Near
Director of the National Museums and the Louvre
Civilian life
Marquet — Bordeaux overwhelmed, 12 June
Adrien Marquet, mayor of Bordeaux
PoliticsCivilian lifeSupply Chain
A Paris Lycée in Exodus
The headmaster of a major Paris lycée relocated to the provinces
Civilian lifeStrategy
Pierre Caron facing the exodus — the archivist and his post
Pierre Caron, Director of the National Archives
PeopleCivilian life
Héring — Paris open city, 13 June
General Pierre Héring, military governor of Paris
PoliticsCivilian lifeDefensive
Paris and the German Advance
The government and the military governor of Paris
Politics
The Maginot Line — Hold or Pull Out
The command of the Maginot Line garrisons
CombatDefensive
Langeron — Prefecture of Police, 14 June
Roger Langeron, Prefect of Police of Paris
PoliticsCivilian lifePeople
The Champs-Élysées — 14 June, noon
Staff of the 87. Infanterie-Division (General von Studnitz)
PoliticsOffensive
The sappers and the Loire bridges
French engineer officers
CombatGroundEngineering & ProductionAllies
Smetona — the 8-hour ultimatum
Antanas Smetona, President of the Republic of Lithuania
Politics
Reynaud or Pétain — Carry On or the Armistice
The French Council of Ministers (Reynaud, Pétain, Weygand)
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAllies
Billancourt under threat: the old boss and his machines
Louis Renault and the management of the Renault factory
Supply ChainPeople
Le Creusot Faces the Wehrmacht — the Forges in the Hour of the Exodus
Management of Schneider et Cie (under the direction of Eugène Schneider II) and the engineers of Le Creusot
Supply Chain
The Franco-British union — 16 June
Charles de Gaulle, Under-Secretary of State for War
PoliticsStrategyPeopleAllies
Reynaud faces the Council — Bordeaux, 16 June, 22:00
Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyPeople
Pétain forms his government — 16 June, 23:00
Marshal Philippe Pétain, Prime Minister
EssentialsPoliticsPeople
Riga and Tallinn under the ultimatum
Karlis Ulmanis, President of Latvia (with Konstantin Päts, President of Estonia)
Politics
Mérignac — de Gaulle and Spears's aircraft
Charles de Gaulle, general, outgoing minister
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Pétain at the microphone — Bordeaux, 17 June, noon
Marshal Philippe Pétain, Prime Minister
PoliticsPeople
Romain Gary at Salon — 17 June
Romain Kacew (future Romain Gary), air force cadet
AirPeopleResistance
Jean Moulin — Chartres, 17 June
Jean Moulin, prefect of Eure-et-Loir
ResistancePeopleWar crimes
The Sinking of the Lancastria
The British command of the evacuation (Operation Aerial)
NavalDefensiveAllies
Pétain on the air: announce the end of the fight?
Marshal Pétain, head of the French government
PoliticsAllies
De Gaulle at the BBC microphone — 18 June, 18:00
Charles de Gaulle, general, outgoing minister
EssentialsPoliticsResistancePeopleAllies
Edmond Michelet — Brive leaflet, 18 June
Edmond Michelet, Christian activist
ResistancePeople
Sikorski leaves Bordeaux — 18 June
General Władysław Sikorski, Polish Prime Minister in exile
PoliticsResistancePeopleAllies
De Gaulle in London — 18 June 1940
General de Gaulle, in London
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleAllies
The Cherbourg arsenal in the face of Rommel
Vice-Admiral Jules Le Bigot, maritime prefect of Cherbourg
NavalDefensiveSupply Chain
Gilbert Renault — the road to London
Gilbert Renault (the future "Colonel Rémy")
ResistancePeople
Catroux and Tokyo's pressure on Indochina
General Georges Catroux, Governor-General of French Indochina
PoliticsStrategyAllies
The fate of the Channel Islands
The British government
DefensivePoliticsAllies
Chasselay — the captured tirailleurs
The German troops (SS-Totenkopf division) at Chasselay
War crimesAxis
The Belgian railways under occupation
Management of the Société nationale des chemins de fer belges (SNCB)
Supply ChainAllies
The Unfinished Battleship of Saint-Nazaire
Captain Pierre-Jean Ronarc'h, commanding officer of the battleship Jean Bart
NavalDefensiveSupply Chain
Darlan and the fleet — 20 June
Admiral François Darlan, Chief of the Naval General Staff
EssentialsNavalPoliticsStrategy
The Army of the Alps against the Italians
General René Olry, Army of the Alps
CombatGroundDefensive
The Massilia: sail off to fight on, or stay?
A French parliamentarian
PoliticsAllies
Menton, the sole Italian gain
The Italian command on the Alpine front
CombatGroundAxis
Rethondes — Article 8 on the Fleet
French armistice delegation (General Huntziger, Léon Noël, Admiral Le Luc, General Bergeret)
NavalPoliticsStrategyAllies
Mussolini on the Riviera — 21 June
Benito Mussolini, head of the Italian government (Duce)
PoliticsStrategyPeopleAxis
The Massilia — Bordeaux 21 June
Édouard Daladier, former President of the Council
PoliticsPeopleResistance
Pintor in the Alps — 21 June
Generale Pietro Pintor, commanding Italian forces in the Western Alps
CombatGroundOffensiveAxis
Boutmy at Mont-Cenis
Captain Hubert Boutmy, commanding the Saint-Gobain Work (Mont-Cenis)
CombatGroundDefensive
Olry and the Army of the Alps — Briançon
General René Olry, commanding the Army of the Alps
GroundDefensiveOffensive
Hitler at Compiègne — 22 June 4:30 p.m.
Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleAxis
Huntziger in Foch's Carriage — 22 June
General Charles Huntziger, head of the French armistice delegation
EssentialsPoliticsPeopleAllies
In the Railway Carriage at Rethondes
The French delegation and the German command
EssentialsPoliticsAxis
Citroën under the Occupation: the boss faces German orders
Pierre-Jules Boulanger, Chairman and Managing Director of Citroën
Supply ChainResistance
The head of Gnome et Rhône facing the vise of June 1940
Paul-Louis Weiller, president of Gnome et Rhône, the largest aircraft engine manufacturer in Europe
PeopleSupply ChainWar crimes
Villa Incisa — the Italo-French Armistice
Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italian Chief of Staff
PoliticsAxis
Wiesbaden — Tracing the Demarcation Line
German delegation to the Wiesbaden armistice commission
PoliticsStrategyAxis
The Maginot surrenders
The commanders of the Maginot Line works
DefensiveGround
Carol II and Bessarabia
Carol II, King of Romania
Politics
The Admiralty and the Strasbourg Rumour
British Admiralty naval intelligence officers
IntelligenceNavalStrategyAllies
Roosevelt and de Gaulle — 28 June
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
PoliticsPeople
A Capital for the French State — 28 June
Marshal Philippe Pétain and his entourage
Politics
The Channel Islands — open city?
Bailiffs and authorities of the Channel Islands, British
DefensiveCivilian lifePoliticsAllies
René Cassin Reaches London — 29 June
René Cassin, jurist, professor of international law
ResistancePeopleAllies
The return of the demobilised soldier
You play a demobilised Belgian soldier
Civilian lifeAllies
Women in the war
You play a Belgian or French woman
Civilian life
The Cabinet and Operation Catapult — 1 July
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
EssentialsNavalCombatStrategyAllies
Raeder and the Seelöwe gamble
Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, commander-in-chief of the Kriegsmarine (Germany)
NavalStrategyAxis
A doctor and the grey form
a German doctor recruited as an evaluator (Gutachter) of the T4 programme
War crimesAxis
The Deutsche Volksliste — sign, or stay Polish
a German-speaking Polish inhabitant of the annexed Warthegau
Civilian lifeWar crimesAllies
Set Europe Ablaze — Passing the Orders
Georges Begue, French radio operator recruited by the new SOE
Covert ops
Jobless worker: take work from the occupier?
You play a Belgian worker
Supply ChainCivilian lifeAllies
London won't yield: invade or strangle Britain?
Adolf Hitler and the German high command
EssentialsStrategyAxis
The French Pacific — Vichy or de Gaulle
The administrators of the French Pacific territories
Politics
The Dutch hulls on the Rotterdam slipways
Kriegsmarine — German naval command in the occupied Netherlands
NavalSupply ChainAxis
July 1940: the Armistice Weapons Inventory
Materiel officer of the armistice army (unoccupied zone)
Supply ChainResistance
Gensoul Receives Holland — Mers-el-Kébir 10:00
Admiral Marcel Gensoul, commanding the Force de Raid
NavalPeople
Somerville off Oran — 4:54 p.m.
Vice-Admiral James Somerville, commanding Force H
NavalCombatPeople
The Madagascar Plan on paper
Franz Rademacher, head of the 'Jewish desk' (D III) at the German Foreign Ministry
War crimesPoliticsAxis
Mers-el-Kébir
The British Admiral James Somerville (Force H)
EssentialsNavalOffensiveAllies
Alexandria — the other fleet
Admiral René-Émile Godfroy (Force X) and Admiral Cunningham
NavalPolitics
Pétain Faces Mers-el-Kébir
Marshal Philippe Pétain, Head of the French State
PoliticsPeople
Campioni faces Cunningham off Calabria
Admiral Inigo Campioni, commander of the battle fleet, Regia Marina (Italy)
NavalCombatAxis
Laval at the Vichy Casino — 10 July
Pierre Laval, Vice-President of the Council
EssentialsPoliticsPeople
Vincent Badie — Vichy Casino, 10 July
Vincent Badie, Radical deputy for Hérault
PoliticsPeople
Vichy — full powers
The parliamentarians of the French National Assembly
EssentialsPolitics
Churchill and the ultimatum on the Burma Road
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, and the War Cabinet
PoliticsStrategyAllies
Hermann Röchling and the Lorraine Ironworks
Hermann Röchling, Saarland steel magnate (Völklinger Hütte), administrator of iron and steel in occupied Lorraine
Supply Chain
The burgomaster faced with requisitions
You play a Belgian burgomaster
Civilian lifeAllies
Organised plunder — the mark at 12.50 F
You play a Belgian shopkeeper
Supply ChainAllies
Jewish refugees — to stay or flee again
You play a Jewish family, refugees in Belgium
War crimesCivilian life
The Belgian Congo and the Choice of 1940
Pierre Ryckmans, Governor-General of the Belgian Congo
StrategyPoliticsAllies
Rebuild or Wait
You play a stricken Belgian family
Civilian lifeAllies
The Repatriation of the Refugees
The Belgian Commissariat for Repatriation
Supply ChainCivilian lifeAllies
Belgians in Wales: own units or merge with the British?
Belgian servicemen who took refuge in Great Britain
ResistanceAllies
Article 13: the SNCF and the occupier
General management of the SNCF (Robert Le Besnerais)
Supply Chain
The Triumph of Berlin
Adolf Hitler, at the height of his power
EssentialsPoliticsAxis
A Navy for Two Oceans
Frank Knox, United States Secretary of the Navy
EssentialsSupply Chain
Work, Family, Fatherland
You play a Frenchman facing the National Revolution
Politics
The Plunder of Art
The German spoliation services (ERR)
War crimesAxis
Marc Bloch Writes — Guéret Summer 1940
Marc Bloch, historian, staff captain
People
Louis Renault Returns from the United States: Billancourt Under German Control
Louis Renault, industrialist and head of the Renault factories
Supply ChainPeople
Galland over the Estuary
Major Adolf Galland, fighter group commander (III./JG 26), Luftwaffe (Germany)
AirCombatOffensiveAxis
The torpedo boat and the lit Meknes
commander of the German motor torpedo boat (S-27), Kriegsmarine (Germany)
NavalWar crimesAxis
The Kanalkampf — withdraw the destroyers?
British Channel naval command, Admiralty, British
NavalDefensiveAllies
Malta besieged — defending the Mediterranean island
Governor-General William Dobbie, commander-in-chief of Malta (United Kingdom)
DefensiveAir
Henri Frenay at Marseille — August 1940
Captain Henri Frenay, regular officer
ResistancePeople
The Polish Pilots of 303 Squadron
RAF command facing exiled Polish fighter pilots, British
AirDefensiveAllies
The Uxbridge plotter
WAAF plotter and 11 Group controller, RAF, British
AirDefensiveIntelligenceAllies
A Spitfire pilot's first combat
young RAF fighter pilot, British
CombatAirAllies
Osterkamp Before Göring — 1 August 1940
Theo Osterkamp, Jagdfliegerführer 2 (head of Luftflotte 2 fighters) and ace of 1914-18 (Germany)
IntelligenceAirPeopleAxis
Göring Before Hitler — Crush the RAF?
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (Germany)
StrategyAirOffensiveAxis
A Danish Fisherman and the Sound
a Danish fisherman-smuggler
Resistance
Mandel at Meknès — August 1940
Georges Mandel, former Minister of the Interior
PeoplePolitics
Tug Argan — fall back or hold in Somaliland
Major-General Alfred Godwin-Austen, commander of British Somaliland forces
DefensiveGroundCombatAllies
Adlertag — which targets?
Luftwaffe targeting staff (Germany)
StrategyAirOffensiveAxis
Eagle Day
The Luftwaffe command (Göring)
EssentialsAirStrategyAxis
The Tizard Mission's Trunk for America
Sir Henry Tizard, chairman of the Aeronautical Research Committee, mandated by the War Cabinet
EssentialsEngineering & ProductionPoliticsSupply ChainAllies
Metaxas and the torpedoing of the Elli
Ioannis Metaxas, President of the Council and dictator of Greece
Politics
Feeding a Family Under Rationing
You play a Belgian mother
Supply ChainCivilian lifeAllies
Joining the VNV or Rex
You play a young Belgian tempted by collaboration
PoliticsAllies
Radio London Under the Occupation
You play a Belgian listener
ResistanceAllies
Tracing Someone Lost in the Exodus
You play a Belgian family searching for a loved one
Civilian lifeAllies
Citroën, the occupier and the secret little car
Pierre-Jules Boulanger, director of Citroën (Michelin group)
Supply ChainResistanceEngineering & Production
Should Detroit start building tanks?
K.T. Keller, president of Chrysler Corporation
Supply Chain
The Stukas Mauled Over England
Luftwaffe high command facing Ju 87 losses (Germany)
AirStrategyDefensiveAxis
Wavell and Churchill's Wrath
General Archibald Wavell, commander-in-chief Middle East (United Kingdom)
StrategyPolitics
Peng Dehuai — leaving guerrilla war behind?
Peng Dehuai, commander of the 8th Route Army (Chinese communist)
OffensiveStrategyGroundAllies
The First Arrests
You play a first Belgian resistance fighter
ResistanceAllies
First Bombs on London — 25 August 1940
Winston Churchill and Bomber Command, British
EssentialsStrategyAirPoliticsAllies
Félix Éboué and Chad's Choice
Félix Éboué, Governor of Chad
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
The Second Vienna Award
Carol II, King of Romania, and the Romanian delegation (FM Mihail Manoilescu)
Politics
Living under occupation: get by or take a side?
You play a Belgian family under the occupation
Civilian lifeAllies
The Toll of the Exodus — How Many French?
Refugee administration (retrospective perspective)
Civilian life
Reopening the School under the Occupation
You play a Belgian schoolteacher
Civilian lifeAllies
Boulanger and the Reich's trucks
Pierre-Jules Boulanger, chairman and managing director of Citroën
Supply ChainResistance
Michelin under the Occupation: keep the presses running or close the doors
Robert Puiseux and the Michelin management (Clermont-Ferrand)
Supply Chain
Peng Dehuai — the Hundred Regiments Offensive
General Peng Dehuai, deputy commander of the Communist 8th Route Army
StrategyGroundOffensiveAllies
The Ports Gorged with Invasion Barges
Air Marshal Charles Portal, Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command (RAF), United Kingdom
AirOffensiveAllies
The turned agent and what he is allowed to say
Lieutenant-Colonel T. A. 'Tar' Robertson, head of the double-agent section of MI5 (the Double-Cross system), United Kingdom
IntelligenceAllies
Roosevelt — destroyers for bases
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
EssentialsPoliticsNavalStrategy
Autumn 1940: Building Fighters Under the Bombs
Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production
Supply ChainEngineering & ProductionAllies
Carol II Against Antonescu — Bucharest, 6 September 1940
Carol II, King of Romania
EssentialsPoliticsPeople
Göring at Cap Gris-Nez — September 7
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, commander of the Luftwaffe
EssentialsStrategyAirOffensiveAxis
"Cromwell" — England, 7 September 1940
Staff of the General Headquarters Home Forces (GHQ Home Forces), under General Alan Brooke
DefensiveStrategyGroundAllies
The Windmill Under the Bombs — Soho, September 1940
Vivian Van Damm, manager of the Windmill Theatre, London
Civilian lifePeopleAllies
Wavell Against the 150,000 Italians — Egypt, September 1940
General Archibald Wavell, British Commander-in-Chief Middle East
GroundStrategyOffensiveAllies
Graziani enters Egypt — Sidi Barrani
Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, commanding the Italian 10th Army
EssentialsGroundOffensiveAxis
Antonescu and the Iron Guard — Bucharest
General Ion Antonescu, Conducător of Romania
PoliticsPeople
Breaking the night Blitz: who owns the darkness?
RAF Marshal Sir John Salmond, chairman of the Night Air Defence Committee
Engineering & ProductionAllies
Keith Park at Uxbridge — September 15
Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park, commanding 11 Group, Fighter Command
AirDefensiveAllies
Dowding and the Last Reserves — 15 September 1940
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, head of Fighter Command (RAF)
EssentialsAirDefensiveAllies
Hitler faces Sea Lion — September 17
Adolf Hitler, Reich Chancellor, and the high command
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAxis
Hanoi — the Japanese ultimatum in Indochina
General Georges Catroux then Admiral Jean Decoux, Governors-General of French Indochina
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
Dakar — de Gaulle and Operation Menace
General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French, and Admiral John Cunningham
EssentialsNavalOffensivePoliticsAllies
Boisson Faces the Squadron — Dakar, 23 September 1940
Pierre Boisson, Governor-General of French West Africa (Vichy)
NavalDefensivePolitics
Terboven and the fate of Quisling — Oslo
Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar for Norway
PoliticsPeople
Tokyo and the Axis Alliance Offer
Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyAxis
The Otto Programme — expanding the rail network toward the East
Deutsche Reichsbahn and Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW)
Supply ChainAxis
Living Through the Blitz — London Nights
Londoners under the bombs
Civilian lifeAllies
The Oil of the Indies That Tokyo Demands
Hubertus van Mook, Director of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch delegation facing Japan), Netherlands/Netherlands East Indies
PoliticsSupply ChainAllies
Vichy and the German Ordinance on the Jews
Raphaël Alibert, Keeper of the Seals of the French State
EssentialsWar crimesPolitics
Roosevelt and the Squadron for Singapore — Washington, October 1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
NavalPoliticsStrategy
The Lutterworth Turbine
Frank Whittle, Royal Air Force engineer
Engineering & ProductionAllies
Mussolini and the Greek plan — Rome, 15 October 1940
Benito Mussolini, Duce and head of the Italian government
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyOffensiveAxis
Franco at Hendaye — October 23
General Francisco Franco, Head of the Spanish State (Caudillo)
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyPeople
Pétain at Montoire — October 24
Marshal Philippe Pétain, Head of the French State
EssentialsPoliticsPeople
The Giant Adrift off Donegal
Kapitänleutnant Hans Jenisch, commander of the submarine U-32, Kriegsmarine, Germany
NavalCombatAxis
Metaxas and the ultimatum — Athens 3 a.m.
Ioannis Metaxas, Prime Minister and dictator of Greece
EssentialsPoliticsPeople
Davakis in the Pindus
Colonel Konstantinos Davakis, commanding the Pindus detachment
CombatGroundDefensivePeople
Roosevelt on the stump — what to promise the voters
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, candidate for a third term
EssentialsPoliticsPeople
Metaxas and the British Bases — Athens, November 1940
Ioannis Metaxas, Prime Minister and dictator of Greece
PoliticsStrategy
Bangkok Eyes the Lost Provinces of the Mekong
Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Prime Minister and Major General, Kingdom of Thailand
PoliticsStrategyOffensive
Canaris and the Order to Take Gibraltar
Wilhelm Canaris, admiral, head of the Abwehr (military intelligence), Germany
IntelligenceCovert opsPoliticsAxis
Gibraltar after the rebuff at Hendaye
Adolf Hitler, Führer and Chancellor of the German Reich, Germany
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAxis
Mitralexis — out of ammunition
Marinos Mitralexis, second lieutenant pilot, Royal Hellenic Air Force
AirCombatPeople
Fegen and the Jervis Bay — convoy HX-84
Captain Edward Fegen, commanding the auxiliary cruiser HMS Jervis Bay
NavalCombatPeopleAllies
The Burning Tanker Adrift in the Atlantic
Arthur G. Hawkins, chief officer of the tanker MV San Demetrio, British merchant navy
NavalPeopleAllies
Leclerc Lands Before a Libreville Held by Vichy
Philippe Leclerc (de Hauteclocque), colonel, Free French Forces
GroundCombatPolitics
Cunningham faces Taranto — November 1940
Admiral Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean, and Rear-Admiral Lyster
EssentialsNavalAirOffensive
Taranto: The Italian Fleet at Anchor Under the Aerial Threat
Domenico Cavagnari, admiral, Under-Secretary of State for the Navy and Chief of Staff of the Regia Marina, Italy
NavalDefensiveAxis
Molotov in Berlin — November 12
Vyacheslav Molotov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyAxis
Hitler After Molotov — Berlin, November 1940
Adolf Hitler, Führer of the German Reich
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyAxis
Coventry — the night of November 14
Coventry civil defense services
AirDefensiveCivilian lifeAllies
Czerniaków — the Warsaw ghetto sealed
Adam Czerniaków, chairman of the Warsaw Jewish Council (Judenrat)
War crimesCivilian lifeAllies
The fate of the victors — Air Ministry, November 1940
Lord Beaverbrook (Minister of Aircraft Production) and the Air Ministry
PoliticsAirPeopleAllies
The Regia Marina against Force H — Cape Spartivento
Inigo Campioni, admiral commanding the battle squadron, Italian Regia Marina
NavalCombatAxis
The Holy Office against the scalpel of the State
Roman Catholic hierarchy (Holy Office) under the pontificate of Pius XII
War crimesPolitics
Which heart to strike in the East?
Franz Halder, Generaloberst, Chief of the General Staff of the Army (OKH), Germany
EssentialsStrategyGroundOffensiveAxis
The key to the Mediterranean and a hesitant ally
Francisco Franco, Head of State (Caudillo), Spain
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
O'Connor launches Compass — Sidi Barrani
General Richard O'Connor, commanding the Western Desert Force
EssentialsCombatGroundOffensive
Laval, awkward heir: keep him or cast him out?
Marshal Philippe Pétain, Head of the French State
PoliticsPeople
Saving an ally bogged down in the mountains
Adolf Hitler, Führer and Chancellor of the Reich, Germany
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsOffensiveAxis
Hitler signs the Barbarossa directive
Adolf Hitler and the German High Command
EssentialsStrategyOffensiveAxis
Hold the bastion or save the divisions?
Benito Mussolini, Head of Government (Duce), Italy
StrategyGroundDefensiveAxis
A raider, a convoy and a cruiser escort
Wilhelm Meisel, Kapitän zur See, commander of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, Germany
NavalCombatAxis
The Second Great Fire of London
Fire watchers of the City of London
DefensiveAirAllies
Roosevelt and aid to Britain — December 1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
Malta under the 'Illustrious Blitz'
Inhabitants and defenders of Valletta
AirDefensiveCivilian life
Roosevelt — Lend-Lease before Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
Marseille's oil mills: relocate to Africa?
Emile Regis, president of the Marseille chamber of commerce, and the Marseille oil-pressers
Supply Chain
Mackay and the Australians at Bardia
Major-General Iven Mackay, commanding the 6th Australian Division
CombatGroundOffensive
The New Fourth Army Incident
Mao Zedong and the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party
StrategyPoliticsAllies
Bulgaria: lock of the Balkans, a price to pay
Bogdan Filov, President of the Council (Prime Minister), Kingdom of Bulgaria
PoliticsStrategyAxis
Roosevelt wants to know if the island will hold
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
PoliticsPeopleAllies
Persuade or Compel Industry
William S. Knudsen, Director of the Office of Production Management
Supply Chain
The Minister, the Fleet and the Empty Plates
Lord Woolton, Minister of Food
Supply ChainCivilian lifeAllies
Excess: getting the convoy through under a new threat
Admiral Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, United Kingdom
NavalAirAllies
Illustrious under the Stukas
Captain Denis Boyd, commanding the carrier HMS Illustrious
NavalDefensive
The Greeks at the Klisura Pass
General Alexandros Papagos, Commander-in-Chief of the Greek Army
CombatGroundOffensiveAllies
The Warsaw Ghetto — the temptation of informing
A destitute ghetto resident approached to become an informer
War crimesResistanceCivilian lifeAllies
Decoux faces Thailand — January 1941
Admiral Jean Decoux, Governor-General of French Indochina and commander of naval forces, France (Vichy)
NavalOffensive
Koh Chang — the Franco-Thai War
Capitaine de vaisseau Régis Bérenger, commanding French naval forces in Indochina
NavalCombatOffensive
Prestige or orders, at Kassala
Luigi Frusci, General of an Army Corps, commander of the Eritrea sector, Italian East Africa
GroundDefensiveAxis
Platt before Kassala — January 1941
General William Platt, commanding British forces in Sudan
OffensiveGroundStrategyAllies
The exiled emperor at Ethiopia's gates
Emperor Haile Selassie I, sovereign of Ethiopia in exile
PoliticsPeopleResistance
Mackay before Tobruk — January 1941
Major-General Iven Mackay, commanding the 6th Australian Division
CombatGroundOffensive
Bucharest — the Legionary rebellion
General Ion Antonescu, Conducător of Romania
PoliticsPeople
Mussolini in the winter of debacle
Benito Mussolini, head of the Italian government (Duce)
PoliticsPeopleAxis
The death of Metaxas — Athens
Alexandros Koryzis, Metaxas's successor as head of the Greek government
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyAllies
Secret staff talks in Washington
American and British staff delegations (ABC conversations), United States / United Kingdom
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAllies
The Battle of Keren — Eritrea
General Nicolangelo Carnimeo and the Italian garrison of Keren
CombatGroundDefensiveAxis
Cunningham toward Mogadishu
General Alan Cunningham, commanding British forces in East Africa
GroundOffensiveAllies
Rubber or nothing — America's gamble on an unobtainable material
Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) and head of the Rubber Reserve Company
Supply Chain
O'Connor and the Italian retreat in Cyrenaica
General Richard O'Connor, commanding XIII Corps (Western Desert Force)
OffensiveGround
Hitler sends Rommel to Africa
Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel, commanding the Deutsches Afrikakorps
EssentialsOffensiveGround
An escort battleship on the convoy's route
Vice-Admiral Günther Lütjens, commanding the German battlecruiser squadron (Operation Berlin), Germany
NavalOffensiveAxis
Force H — a raid in Italian waters
Vice-Admiral James Somerville, commanding Force H
NavalOffensive
The first jump: a raid with no safety net for the return
British airborne forces staff (No. 11 SAS Battalion), United Kingdom
AirCombatCovert opsAllies
An unescorted convoy in the grey morning
Kapitän zur See Wilhelm Meisel, commander of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, Germany
NavalCombatOffensiveAxis
Prince Paul under Berlin's pressure
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Regent of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
PoliticsPeople
Hold Cyrenaica or take Tripoli?
General Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief Middle East
EssentialsStrategy
The Fourth Buna — Where to Site the Plant
Otto Ambros, director of IG Farben's synthetic rubber (Buna) program, tasked by Carl Krauch with deciding the location
EssentialsSupply ChainEngineering & ProductionAllies
Amsterdam after the round-up: call a strike?
Militants of the underground Dutch Communist Party
ResistanceWar crimesAllies
Boris III — Sofia under pressure, March 1941
Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria
Politics
Sorge — where to point the network?
Richard Sorge, Soviet intelligence agent under cover as a journalist
IntelligencePeopleAxis
Berlin and the death of the hero Prien
Leadership of the Kriegsmarine and of Reich propaganda, German
PoliticsPeopleAxis
The Reich's Coal: the State or the Barons of the Ruhr
Hermann Goering, head of the Four-Year Plan
Supply ChainAxis
Lofoten — Operation Claymore
Brigadier Joseph Charles Haydon, commanding the Commando raiding force
Covert opsNaval
Turkey, courted by both sides
İsmet İnönü, President of the Republic of Turkey
PoliticsStrategy
Roosevelt — signing Lend-Lease
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
Aiding London without entering the war?
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsSupply Chain
Mussolini wants his victory in Albania
Benito Mussolini, head of the Italian government (Duce)
StrategyGroundOffensiveAxis
Golikov — what to tell Stalin about German troops
Filipp Golikov, general, head of military intelligence (GRU), USSR
IntelligencePolitics
Stalin and the warnings of spring 1941
Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party, leader of the USSR
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
The apothecary of the Kraków Ghetto
Tadeusz Pankiewicz, Polish pharmacist of the Apteka pod Orłem
ResistanceCivilian lifePeopleAllies
Rommel at El Agheila — orders or audacity?
Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel, commanding the Deutsches Afrikakorps
EssentialsGroundOffensive
The Belgrade coup
General Dušan Simović and the officers of the Yugoslav air force
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyAllies
Cape Matapan — Cunningham against Iachino
Admiral Andrew Cunningham, commanding the British Mediterranean Fleet
NavalCombatIntelligenceAllies
Asmara: a second Keren or an open city?
Luigi Frusci, major-general, Italian military governor of Eritrea
GroundDefensiveAxis
The Warsaw Ghetto — the ration of hunger
The German administration of the ghetto (Kommissar Heinz Auerswald, Transferstelle)
War crimesSupply ChainCivilian lifeAxis
Wavell in the face of Rommel's storm
Archibald Wavell, general, British Commander-in-Chief Middle East
StrategyGroundDefensiveAllies
Teleki between his given word and reason of state
Pál Teleki, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary
PoliticsPeople
Subhas Chandra Bose in Berlin
Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian nationalist leader
PoliticsStrategyPeopleAxis
Marita — the invasion of Greece
Feldmarschall Wilhelm List, commanding the German 12th Army
EssentialsOffensiveGroundCombatAxis
Belgrade under the bombs
Inhabitants of Belgrade, declared an open city
AirCivilian lifeWar crimes
O'Connor — lost in the night near Mechili
General Richard O'Connor, adviser to the Cyrenaica command
PeopleGroundCombat
Fort Roupel faces the German summons
Georgios Douratsos, lieutenant-colonel, commander of the Roupel fort, Greek army
GroundCombatDefensiveAllies
Bjelovar: desert the Yugoslav army or hold the line
Croatian officer of the 108th regiment of the Royal Yugoslav Army, Yugoslav
PoliticsGroundAllies
Salonika lost: the fate of the Metaxas Line
Lieutenant-General Konstantinos Bakopoulos, commander of the Army Section of Eastern Macedonia, Greek
GroundDefensivePeopleAllies
The Ustasha state and the fate of the Serbs
Ante Pavelić, Poglavnik of the Independent State of Croatia
EssentialsWar crimesPolitics
Morshead — Tobruk encircled, 10 April
Major-General Leslie Morshead, commanding the Tobruk garrison
CombatGroundDefensive
Stalin faces the Japanese offer
Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party, leader of the USSR
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
The Prime Minister in the face of the collapse of Athens
Alexandros Koryzis, Prime Minister of Greece
PoliticsPeople
One bomber an hour: the Willow Run gamble
Charles Sorensen, vice-president of Ford
Supply ChainEngineering & Production
Tsolakoglou and the collapse of the Albanian front
Lieutenant-General Georgios Tsolakoglou, commander of the Army Section of Epirus, Greek
PoliticsPeopleAllies
The ANZACs at Thermopylae
Lieutenant-General Bernard Freyberg and the rearguard of the expeditionary corps (W Force)
CombatGroundDefensive
The fall of Athens
Alexandros Koryzis, President of the Greek Council, and King George II
PoliticsAllies
Darlan at Berchtesgaden — how far to collaborate?
Admiral François Darlan, Vice-President of the Vichy Council
Politics
Send out the Bismarck alone, or wait for her sisters
Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, head of the Kriegsmarine, German
NavalStrategyPeopleAxis
Mihailović alone at Ravna Gora
Colonel Dragoljub 'Draža' Mihailović, officer of the Royal Yugoslav Army, Serb
ResistanceCovert opsPeopleAllies
Habbaniya — the RAF base surrounded
Air Vice-Marshal Harry Smart, commanding the RAF base at Habbaniya
AirCombatDefensiveAllies
British rationing put to the test in 1941
Lord Woolton, Minister of Food of the United Kingdom
Civilian lifeSupply ChainPoliticsAllies
Sikorsky and the VS-300: the helicopter takes flight
Igor Sikorsky, Russian émigré aeronautical engineer
Engineering & ProductionAirAxis
U-110 — a U-boat abandoned but afloat
Sub-Lieutenant David Balme, boarding party of HMS Bulldog
EssentialsIntelligenceNavalAllies
Hess — the fixed idea of a separate peace
Rudolf Hess, Deputy to the Führer
PoliticsPeopleAllies
The last great night of the Blitz
London civil defence services and firemen
DefensiveAirAllies
Liège steelworks: protest or keep quiet?
Clandestine trade union and communist militants of the Liège basin
ResistanceCivilian life
Campine Coal and the Hunger of Year One
Miner in the Campine coalfield (Belgian Limburg)
Civilian lifeSupply ChainResistanceAllies
Berlin sets the rules of war in the East
Adolf Hitler and the Wehrmacht high command (OKW/OKH)
EssentialsWar crimesPoliticsAxis
Whittle, his jet engine and the rebellious combustion chamber
Frank Whittle, Royal Air Force engineer, Power Jets Ltd
Engineering & ProductionSupply ChainAllies
The Cambridge mathematician sworn to secrecy at Bletchley
A Cambridge mathematician recruited to Bletchley Park
IntelligenceCovert opsEngineering & ProductionAllies
Amba Alagi — the Duke of Aosta encircled
Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, Viceroy of Italian East Africa
CombatGroundPeopleDefensiveAxis
Student — the airborne gamble on Crete
General der Flieger Kurt Student, commanding the XI Air Corps
OffensiveAirCombat
Freyberg at Maleme
Lieutenant-General Bernard Freyberg, commanding Allied forces on Crete
CombatGroundDefensive
Cretan villagers against the paratroopers — 20 May 1941
A Cretan villager
ResistanceCombat
Ultra has spoken: Freyberg's dilemma
Major-General Bernard Freyberg, commander of the Allied forces in Crete, New Zealander
GroundAirIntelligenceDefensive
The Hood against the Bismarck
Vice-Admiral Lancelot Holland, commanding the British battle squadron
EssentialsNavalCombatAllies
Tovey — the Bismarck running for France
Admiral John Tovey, commanding the Home Fleet
EssentialsNavalCombatAirAllies
Roosevelt — the fireside chat of 27 May 1941
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
EssentialsPolitics
At the Dahomey pit, the morning of team-rate pay
Underground coal miners of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coalfield
Supply ChainCivilian lifeResistance
Darlan faces Axis demands in the Levant
Admiral François Darlan, Vice-President of the Council of Vichy, French
PoliticsPeople
British Clothes Rationing
A London housewife
Civilian lifeSupply ChainAllies
Spanish Wolfram
Eberhard von Stohrer, German Ambassador to Spain
Supply ChainStrategyPolitics
Annexed Menton and the Italian occupier
A young woman of Menton who remained in the annexed zone
Civilian lifePolitics
Damascus — the Syrian Campaign
General Henri Dentz, Vichy High Commissioner in the Levant
CombatGroundPolitics
Battleaxe — Wavell before Halfaya
General Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief Middle East
CombatGroundOffensive
The Monowitz Construction Site
Walter Dürrfeld, engineer at IG Farben
EssentialsSupply ChainEngineering & ProductionWar crimesAllies
Krupp and the Beast's Cannon
Erich Müller, head of the artillery design office at Krupp, Essen
Engineering & ProductionSupply ChainAxis
Hitler — the Eve of Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler, head of the Reich, and the German high command
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAxis
Barbarossa — 3:15 a.m.
Soviet soldiers and defenders of the frontier
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
Brest — the Encircled Fortress
Major Pyotr Gavrilov and the garrison of the fortress of Brest
CombatGroundDefensivePeople
The Commissar Order
Wehrmacht high command (OKW) and officers of the Eastern Front
War crimesAxis
Kirponos's armour: counterattack or preserve it?
General Mikhail Kirponos, commanding the Soviet South-Western Front
CombatGroundAllies
The Pits Run Dry — Bevin and the Coal of 1941
Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour and National Service
Supply ChainAllies
Soviet Industry and the German Advance
Lazar Kaganovich, People's Commissar for Transport and chairman of the Evacuation Council
EssentialsSupply Chain
Finland after the Bombs — 25 June 1941
Risto Ryti, President of Finland, and Marshal Mannerheim
PoliticsStrategy
Kaunas: by what method to trigger the massacres?
SS-Brigadeführer Franz Walter Stahlecker, commander of Einsatzgruppe A
War crimesIntelligenceAxis
The Soviet schoolteacher facing the German advance
A schoolteacher in Belarus facing the invasion
Supply ChainCivilian lifeStrategy
Churchill and Wavell's Fate
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
StrategyPoliticsPeopleAllies
Lviv: how to unleash the anti-Jewish violence?
Einsatzgruppe C and local nationalist auxiliaries
War crimesIntelligence
The Reich and the Resources of the Conquered East
Herbert Backe, State Secretary for Food Supply, and the SS planners
EssentialsWar crimesSupply ChainAxis
Stalin at the Microphone — the First War Speech
Joseph Stalin, Chairman of the State Defence Committee
PoliticsPeopleStrategy
Tito: Rise Now or Wait?
Josip Broz Tito, General Secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party
ResistancePoliticsAllies
Riga: serve the SD or refuse?
Viktors Arajs, former Latvian reserve officer
War crimesPoliticsCovert ops
Iceland Between London and Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
StrategyNavalPolitics
Jedwabne: where does responsibility lie?
Inhabitants of Jedwabne and the German occupier (responsibilities debated)
War crimesAxis
Dentz and the Endgame in the Levant
General Henri Dentz, Vichy High Commissioner in the Levant
PoliticsPeople
The Punch-Card Machine Controller
René Carmille, Controller General of the Army and head of the Demographic Service (the future National Statistics Service)
ResistanceIntelligence
Billancourt Under the Eye of the Occupier
Louis Renault, French industrialist
Supply ChainCivilian life
Smolensk — the pocket closes
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, commanding the Soviet Western Direction
GroundDefensiveAllies
10,000 tanks, and nothing on paper
Nikolai Astrov, chief engineer of the design bureau at Factory No. 37
Engineering & ProductionSupply Chain
Tokyo and the Lure of Southern Indochina
Imperial Japanese government (Imperial Conference)
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyAxis
Roosevelt and the Japanese Advance
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
Heydrich's mandate
Hermann Göring and Reinhard Heydrich, head of the RSHA
EssentialsWar crimesIntelligenceAxis
Roosevelt and Churchill: how far to commit?
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
A young Belarusian woman in occupied Minsk
A young Belarusian woman
ResistanceCivilian lifeWar crimes
Stalin and the Mass Surrenders
Joseph Stalin and the Soviet supreme command (Stavka)
PoliticsWar crimesAllies
Kaiser, the Rivet and the Electric Arc
Henry J. Kaiser, construction and shipbuilding industrialist (Richmond, California)
Supply ChainEngineering & Production
Kiev or Moscow — Hitler decides
Adolf Hitler and the German high command (OKH)
EssentialsStrategyAxis
Kamenets-Podolski: the fate of the gathered Jews
SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, Higher SS and Police Leader for the South
War crimesAxis
Stalin and the Volga Germans
Joseph Stalin and Lavrenty Beria (NKVD)
War crimesPoliticsAllies
The Forgotten Tooling at Rock Island
Ordnance Department, responsible for rifle procurement
Supply Chain
Leningrad encircled: where to keep the bread?
A Leningrad food-supply official
Civilian lifeSupply ChainStrategyAllies
The Hermitage as the siege closes in
Iosif Orbeli, director of the Hermitage Museum, Soviet orientalist and academician
PeopleCivilian lifeStrategyAllies
Mannerheim at the Svir
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Marshal and Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Armed Forces
EssentialsStrategyDefensivePeopleAxis
Oslo's milk strike: hold out or back down?
A trade union leader in Oslo
ResistancePoliticsCivilian life
SC-42: 65 ships, 2 corvettes
Lieutenant-Commander H. H. Rankin, Senior Officer Escort, Convoy SC-42, HMCS Kenogami
NavalDefensiveAllies
Lindbergh's speech: name the culprits?
Charles Lindbergh, aviator and spokesman for the America First Committee, United States
PoliticsPeople
Kirponos, Kiev and Stalin's Prohibition
Mikhail Kirponos, general commanding the Southwestern Front
EssentialsStrategyGroundDefensive
A French nurse facing a wounded enemy soldier
A French nurse
Civilian lifeResistance
Before the enemy: the kolkhoz farm
A Soviet kolkhoznik in the path of the German advance
Civilian lifeStrategyResistanceAllies
Reza Shah: save the throne or resist?
Reza Shah Pahlavi, in Tehran
Politics
The Kharkov worker facing the dismantling of the tank factory
A worker at the Kharkov tank factory
Supply ChainEngineering & ProductionCivilian life
Changsha 1941: Xue Yue Faces the Japanese Offensive
Xue Yue, Chinese general commanding the 9th War Area
CombatGroundStrategyAllies
The Yellow Star in Berlin's Streets
A Jewish schoolteacher in Berlin
Civilian lifeWar crimes
Perekop: the Iron Gate of Crimea
Erich von Manstein, general commanding the German 11th Army
OffensiveGroundStrategyAxis
An atomic report on the Lord President's desk
Sir John Anderson, Lord President of the Council, United Kingdom
EssentialsPoliticsEngineering & ProductionIntelligenceAllies
Heydrich Arrives in Prague
Reinhard Heydrich, Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
PoliticsWar crimesPeople
Kyiv: obey the summons or flee?
A Jewish family of Kiev
War crimesCivilian lifePeople
Babi Yar: hide your Jewish neighbours?
An inhabitant of Kiev, neighbor to a Jewish family
Civilian lifeResistance
The Mud, the Winter and the Road to Moscow
Heinz Guderian, general commanding the 2nd Panzer Group
OffensiveGroundStrategyAxis
The First Convoys to Murmansk
A British sailor on the first Arctic convoy to Murmansk
NavalSupply ChainAllies
Peenemünde and Industrialising the A-4
Walter Dornberger, head of the Army's rocket programme
Engineering & ProductionSupply ChainAxis
Harriman in Moscow, Face to Face with Stalin
W. Averell Harriman, special envoy of President Roosevelt, head of the American mission in Moscow
StrategySupply ChainPolitics
The Parisian concierge facing informing under the Occupation
Madame G., concierge in a Parisian apartment building
ResistanceCivilian lifePolitics
Barred from School in the Warsaw Ghetto
A female student in the Warsaw Ghetto
Civilian lifeResistanceWar crimesAllies
The Kirov Plant Under the Shells
A woman worker at the Kirov Plant in besieged Leningrad
Supply ChainCivilian lifePeople
Carmille and the Vichy Punch Cards
René Carmille, Inspector General of the Army and head of the National Statistics Service
ResistanceIntelligencePeople
The Commissar Order
A Wehrmacht officer, Eastern Front
GroundAxis
Vyazma: hold, withdraw or scatter?
A volunteer of the opolchenie (people's militia) of Moscow
GroundDefensiveCivilian life
Goebbels: trumpet victory or hold back?
Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda
PoliticsPeopleAxis
Zhukov Facing the Void Before Moscow
Georgy Zhukov, general charged with the defense of Moscow
EssentialsStrategyGroundDefensive
The Blue Division in the Volkhov Marshes
A sergeant of the Spanish Volunteer Division (División Azul), Novgorod sector, Eastern Front
GroundCombatAxis
The Church in a Threatened Moscow
Metropolitan Sergius (Sergei Stragorodsky), locum tenens of the Moscow Patriarchate
PoliticsCivilian lifePeopleAllies
Malyshev and the Tank Exodus to the Urals
Vyacheslav Malyshev, People's Commissar for the Tank Industry of the USSR
Supply Chain
The Belgrade schoolteacher under the occupation
A Serbian primary-school teacher in occupied Belgrade
Civilian lifePoliticsResistanceAllies
Warsaw Ghetto Teachers and the Ban
A Jewish schoolteacher and diarist of the ghetto
ResistanceCivilian lifeWar crimesAllies
Sorge in Tokyo: The Net Tightens
Richard Sorge, Soviet intelligence agent in Tokyo
IntelligenceCovert opsPeopleAllies
Odessa: evacuate or hold the siege?
The Soviet command at Odessa (Odessa Defensive Region)
NavalStrategyDefensiveAllies
Bryansk forests: which side to choose?
A peasant of the Bryansk forests
ResistanceCivilian life
The deportation order: obey, flee or hide?
A Jewish patriarch and family head in Frankfurt am Main
War crimesCivilian life
Moscow evacuated: flee, fight or follow?
A physics student at Moscow University
Civilian lifeEngineering & ProductionSupply Chain
Moscow in panic: flee or hold on?
A Moscow factory worker
Civilian lifePoliticsPeople
Moscow on the brink: mine everything?
An NKVD engineer in Moscow
Engineering & ProductionDefensiveAllies
The Donbass Is About to Fall — What to Do With the Basin?
Joseph Stalin, Chairman of the State Defence Committee (GKO)
Supply ChainStrategy
U-boat wolfpack: charge them or shield the convoy?
A Canadian escort commander of a North Atlantic convoy
NavalSupply ChainDefensive
Tojo as Prime Minister: Reopening the Question of War
Hideki Tojo, general and new Prime Minister of Japan
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyPeople
Pearl Harbor: force the raid or yield?
Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, admiral
EssentialsNavalStrategyPeopleAxis
Soviet Sappers at Kharkov
A Soviet combat engineer tasked with mining Kharkov
Engineering & ProductionSupply ChainResistanceAllies
The Reprisal Quota at Kragujevac
Wehrmacht officer in occupied Serbia, executor of the reprisal order
War crimesPoliticsAxis
The Captives of the Ukrainian Pockets
German quartermaster officer, commandant of a transit camp (Dulag) in occupied Ukraine
War crimesSupply ChainAxis
Denouncing the partisans under the terror of reprisals in Serbia
A peasant of Šumadija, in occupied Serbia
ResistanceWar crimesPolitics
Châteaubriant: The List of Hostages
The French authorities of the Choisel camp
War crimesResistancePolitics
Odessa: After the Explosion of the Romanian Headquarters
A Romanian officer in occupied Odessa
War crimesPeople
Tula: Arm the Workers or Empty the Factories
Worker organizer of the Tula defense committee, USSR
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
French Resistance: Fight On or Obey de Gaulle?
A clandestine Communist Party (PCF) resistance official, armed Resistance, Paris region
ResistancePoliticsAllies
Mihailovic faces Tito's offer
Colonel Draža Mihailović, leader of the Chetniks, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
ResistancePoliticsStrategyAllies
The Ninth Fort of Kaunas
A non-commissioned officer of the Lithuanian auxiliary police assigned to the Ninth Fort, Kaunas
War crimesAxis
Guderian at Tula: storm it or bypass it?
General Heinz Guderian, 2nd Panzer Army
GroundOffensive
The Reuben James Goes Down: Roosevelt's Dilemma
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
NavalPoliticsPeople
The Kharkov railwayman and the Reichsbahn
A railwayman from Kharkov
Supply ChainCivilian life
Sevastopol 1941: Vice Admiral Oktyabrsky's Dilemma
Vice Admiral Filipp Oktyabrsky, defense of Sevastopol
EssentialsDefensiveGround
The Italian Corps in Russia Without Winter Gear
General Giovanni Messe, commander of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia (CSIR)
StrategySupply ChainPeopleAxis
Hilfswillige: Survival or Refusal in the Transit Camp
A Red Army sergeant, captured during the Kiev pocket and held in a German transit camp in occupied Ukraine
Civilian lifeWar crimesAllies
A Polish Priest and the Gestapo
A parish priest in the Archdiocese of Kraków, occupied Poland (General Government)
Civilian lifeResistanceWar crimes
Imperial conference: keep talking or set war?
Nagano Osami, Chief of the Naval General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy, admiral
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyAxis
Should Stalin Be Armed?
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
EssentialsPoliticsSupply ChainPeople
The 7 November parade: hold it or cancel?
Joseph Stalin, in Moscow
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
Tikhvin lost: counterattack or fall back?
General Kirill Meretskov, Tikhvin sector
GroundOffensive
HMS Ark Royal Torpedoed off Gibraltar
The commander of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal
Civilian life
Washington: Arming the Merchant Ships
A Republican senator from the Midwest, facing the vote on revising the American Neutrality Act
EssentialsPoliticsAllies
The Belgrade medical student and the call of the Partisans
A medical student in Belgrade
ResistanceWar crimesCivilian life
Athens, the Winter of Hunger
A mother in occupied Athens
Civilian lifeWar crimesPeople
Moscow in the frost: push on or dig in?
A German soldier of the 4th Army, on the road to Moscow
GroundCivilian lifeAxis
Volokolamsk: hold the road or save the unit
Officer of the 316th Rifle Division (Panfilov Division), Soviet Red Army
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
Leningrad besieged: hunger as a weapon
Andrei Zhdanov, First Secretary of the Party and head of the defence of Leningrad
Civilian lifeStrategyWar crimes
Dönitz and Operation Drumbeat
Karl Dönitz, Commodore and Commander-in-Chief of German submarine forces (BdU)
EssentialsNavalStrategyPeopleAxis
Tobruk: break out or hold the perimeter?
The besieged garrison of Tobruk (General Scobie)
GroundDefensive
Leningrad: The First Ice on Lake Ladoga
A mother in besieged Leningrad
Civilian lifePeople
Crusader: The Generals' Doubt
Claude Auchinleck, British Commander-in-Chief, Middle East
OffensiveGroundStrategyAllies
Crusader: Decision Time for Rommel
General Erwin Rommel, Panzergruppe Afrika
GroundOffensiveAxis
A battleship sunk: tell or conceal?
Admiral Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, Royal Navy, United Kingdom
NavalIntelligencePoliticsAllies
Nomura and the Hull Note: Diplomacy on the Brink
Ambassador Kichisaburō Nomura, in Washington
EssentialsPoliticsStrategy
The Last Redoubt at Gondar
General Guglielmo Nasi, Italian East Africa
GroundAxis
Rostov: Withdraw or Obey the Führer
Gerd von Rundstedt, field marshal commanding Army Group South
StrategyGroundDefensive
Japan and the Southern Resource Zone
The Japanese imperial government (Imperial Conferences of 1941)
EssentialsStrategySupply ChainPoliticsAxis
Snow Before Moscow — Zhukov and the Counter-Offensive
General Georgy Zhukov, commander of the Western Front
EssentialsCombatGroundOffensiveStrategyAllies
On the Eve of Pearl Harbor, a Decision in the Shadows
Vannevar Bush, Director of the OSRD
EssentialsEngineering & ProductionStrategy
The Japanese Spy on the Eve of Pearl Harbor
Takeo Yoshikawa, Japanese naval intelligence agent in Honolulu
IntelligenceCovert opsNavalAxis
Nagumo off Oahu — the third wave
Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, commander of the Kidō Butai carrier force
EssentialsNavalAirOffensiveStrategyAxis
The Leningrad doctor during the winter of the siege
A hospital doctor in besieged Leningrad
Civilian lifeDefensive
Leningrad University during the siege
The rector of Leningrad State University
Civilian lifeDefensivePeople
Chełmno: What to Do With What You Have Seen?
Szlama Ber Winer, a Jew from Izbica Kujawska forced into the Chełmno Sonderkommando
War crimesAxis
Riga: Surviving in the Small Ghetto?
Max Kaufmann, a Riga Jew who survived the ghetto and was assigned to the work columns
War crimes
Phillips and Force Z — sail without air cover?
Admiral Sir Tom Phillips, commander of Force Z
EssentialsNavalDefensiveStrategyPeopleAllies
The Ice Road on Lake Ladoga
Andrei Zhdanov, Communist Party chief responsible for the defence of Leningrad
EssentialsSupply ChainCivilian lifeAllies
Pearl Harbor: declare war on the United States?
Adolf Hitler, Reich Chancellor
EssentialsPoliticsStrategyAxis
The Demobilised Latvian Soldier and the German Offer
A veteran of the Latvian army in occupied Latvia
War crimesGroundPolitics
The Reich's Concrete Against the Sea
Fritz Todt, head of the Organisation Todt
Engineering & ProductionDefensive
Germany's 'Uranverein' in Late 1941
Werner Heisenberg, physicist at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut in Berlin
Engineering & ProductionStrategyIntelligenceAxis
Occupied Kyiv: A Knock at the Door
Aleksey Glagolev, Ukrainian Orthodox priest of the Church of the Intercession (Pokrov), Podil district, Kyiv
EssentialsResistanceCivilian life
Convoy HG-76 — the escort under the wolf-pack
Commander Frederic Walker, leading the escort group of convoy HG-76 (Gibraltar–United Kingdom)
NavalOffensiveStrategyAllies
Women Called to Service
Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour and National Service
Civilian lifePoliticsAllies
Before Moscow: stand fast or retreat?
Adolf Hitler, Chancellor and Supreme Leader of the Reich
EssentialsGroundStrategyPoliticsAxis
Hitler and the Command of the Army
Adolf Hitler, head of the German state and supreme commander of the Wehrmacht
PoliticsAxis
The Flying Tigers Against the Zero
Claire Chennault, commander of the American Volunteer Group in the service of China
AirCombatAllies
Arcadia — Germany or Japan First?
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, at the Arcadia Conference
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAllies
Wake: should a carrier be risked to save the garrison?
Vice Admiral William Pye, acting commander of the Pacific Fleet
NavalStrategyDefensiveAllies
Manila or Bataan?
General Douglas MacArthur, Commander of US and Philippine Forces (USAFFE)
GroundDefensiveStrategyAllies
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon: Bold Stroke or Prudence?
Admiral Émile Muselier, commander of the Free French Naval Forces
PoliticsCovert opsAllies
Hong Kong's Christmas — Maltby and the Surrender
Major-General Christopher Maltby, commanding the Hong Kong garrison
CombatGroundDefensivePeopleAllies
Kerch: gamble a landing to save Sevastopol?
General Dmitri Kozlov, commander of the Transcaucasus Front
CombatOffensiveGroundAllies
Sevastopol: ease the grip to counter Kerch?
General Erich von Manstein, commander of the German 11th Army
CombatStrategyGroundAxis
Rex and the Scattered Networks
Jean Moulin, General Delegate of Free France in the Southern Zone
ResistancePoliticsAllies
The Alliance That Could Not Be Broken
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, with Winston Churchill
EssentialsPoliticsAllies
How far to press the advantage?
Joseph Stalin, head of the Soviet State and the Stavka
EssentialsGroundOffensiveStrategyAllies
Slim River: Hold or Break?
Lieutenant-General Lewis Heath, commanding III Indian Corps in Malaya
CombatGroundDefensiveAllies
Konev and the Rzhev Salient
Ivan Konev, Soviet general commanding the Kalinin Front
GroundOffensive
Theresienstadt: Who Goes on the First Transport List?
Jakob Edelstein, first Elder of the Council of Elders (Ältestenrat) of the Theresienstadt ghetto
War crimesPolitics
Toropets: How Far to Push the Breakthrough in the Snow?
Andrei Yeryomenko, general commanding the Soviet 4th Shock Army
OffensiveGround
The Pearl Harbor Wrecks: Salvage or Not?
Captain Homer Wallin, officer in charge of salvage operations at Pearl Harbor
Engineering & ProductionNavalAllies
Giving Up the Family's Woollens for the Soldiers in the East
An ordinary German civilian (generic role)
Civilian lifeAxis
Strike America or hold the Atlantic?
Admiral Karl Dönitz, commander of the U-boat arm (BdU)
EssentialsNavalOffensiveStrategyAxis
The Impossible Command
General Sir Archibald Wavell, Supreme Commander-designate of ABDACOM
StrategyDefensiveAllies
The Route of the Worst Journey in the World
Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord
NavalSupply ChainStrategyAllies
Blockade and Famine: A Gap for Greece?
Winston Churchill and the British War Cabinet
Civilian lifeWar crimesPoliticsAllies
Tankograd: Run the Lines Before the Walls?
Isaak Zaltsman, director of the Kirov tank plant in Chelyabinsk (Urals)
Engineering & ProductionSupply ChainCivilian life
U-123 off the American Coast
Reinhard Hardegen, commander of the submarine U-123, Kriegsmarine
NavalAxis
America Shifts to a War Economy
Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board
Supply Chain
The Bomb or the Laboratory
Vannevar Bush, Director of the OSRD, scientific adviser to Roosevelt
EssentialsEngineering & ProductionStrategyAllies
Berlin: An Order for "Evacuation to the East"
Cioma Schönhaus, a young Berlin Jew, graphic-arts student and forced labourer
War crimesCivilian life
The Wannsee Villa: Aligning the Ministries
Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, chairing the Wannsee Conference
EssentialsWar crimesPoliticsAxis
Foreign Tanks in the Moscow Snow
A Soviet tank officer of the 136th Independent Tank Brigade (generic role)
Supply ChainGround
Rommel's Forbidden Gamble in Cyrenaica
General Erwin Rommel, commander of Panzerarmee Afrika
GroundOffensiveAxis
Vargas at Rio: Brazil Faces the Axis
President Getúlio Vargas, head of the Brazilian state
PoliticsStrategyAllies
Parit Sulong: The Encircled Column at Dawn
Charles Anderson, Australian lieutenant-colonel commanding the Australian-Indian force encircled at Parit Sulong (Malaya)
CombatWar crimesGround
The Rabaul Trap
Lieutenant-Colonel John Scanlan, Commanding Officer, Lark Force
GroundDefensivePeopleAllies
The Fire Night at Balikpapan
Commander Paul Talbot, commanding a destroyer division, aboard USS John D. Ford
NavalOffensiveAllies
The First Ration Books: Keeping Shop Under Rationing
An American neighborhood shopkeeper (generic role)
Civilian life
Kholm Pocket: Hold, Break Out, or Counterattack?
Generalmajor Theodor Scherer, commander of the encircled German garrison at Kholm (Cholm), north-western front
DefensiveAxis
Bombers Toward Tokyo: A One-Way Mission
Admiral Ernest King, Chief of Naval Operations, US Navy
EssentialsAirStrategyAllies
Shark: When the Atlantic Goes Dark
Rodger Winn, head of the Submarine Tracking Room (Admiralty)
IntelligenceNavalAllies
The Burma Road in Peril
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, head of the Chinese Nationalist government
StrategyPoliticsAllies
Halsey at the Marshalls: Strike or Hold Back?
Vice Admiral William Halsey, commanding Task Force 8 (carrier Enterprise)
NavalOffensiveAllies
Malta under the bombs: sacrifice the island vs Rommel?
Lieutenant-General Sir William Dobbie, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta
DefensiveAirStrategyAllies
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: Hide Them or Hand Them Over?
André Trocmé, pastor of the Reformed Church of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
ResistancePoliticsCivilian life
Stilwell and the Chinese Armies for Burma
Joseph Stilwell, American general, chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek and commander of US forces in China-Burma-India
PoliticsStrategy
The Village and the Men of the Woods
A peasant from a village in occupied Russia, in the Bryansk-Smolensk region
ResistanceCivilian life
Ambon: Gull Force Driven to the Sea
John Scott, Australian lieutenant-colonel commanding Gull Force on Ambon (Dutch East Indies)
War crimesCombat
Where to halt the retreat in Cyrenaica?
General Neil Ritchie, commander of the British Eighth Army
GroundDefensive
Feeding Her Children in the Paris Winter of 1942
A Parisian mother under the Occupation (generic role)
Civilian lifeResistance
Speer at headquarters - Todt's portfolio
Albert Speer, chief architect of the Reich
EssentialsPeoplePoliticsAxis
Demyansk: hold the pocket or break out?
Adolf Hitler, Supreme Commander of the Reich
EssentialsAirStrategyGroundAxis
Bataan: Holding On Through Hunger and Fever
An American-Filipino soldier of the Bataan garrison (documented composite case)
GroundCivilian life
At the Warsaw Ghetto Wall, the Winter of Hunger
A teenage Jewish smuggler in the Warsaw Ghetto
ResistanceCivilian life
Volkhov Front: The Thrust Toward Lyuban
Kirill Meretskov, army general, commander of the Volkhov Front
GroundOffensive
A Woman at the War Plant Gate
An American woman applying for work in a Detroit war plant (generic role)
Civilian lifePeople
Decima MAS: Where to Strike After Alexandria?
Junio Valerio Borghese, corvette captain commanding the submarine Scirè and head of the Decima Flottiglia MAS underwater operations
Covert opsNavalAxis
Six Swordfish Against the Squadron — the Channel Dash
Lieutenant-Commander Eugene Esmonde, 825 Naval Air Squadron
NavalAirOffensivePeopleAllies
Before the Tribunal: Conscience Against the Uniform
A British conscientious objector summoned before a local tribunal (Conscientious Objection Tribunal)
Civilian lifePolitics
Course for Malta: Force the Passage or Turn Back
Rear-Admiral Philip Vian, commanding the 15th Cruiser Squadron based at Alexandria
NavalSupply Chain
Will the RAF change its target?
Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff, RAF
EssentialsAirStrategyAllies
Percival and Yamashita's Ultimatum
Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, commanding Commonwealth forces in Malaya
EssentialsCombatGroundDefensiveStrategyAllies
Oneg Shabbat: What to Do With the Ghetto's Memory?
Emanuel Ringelblum, historian and organiser of the Warsaw Ghetto's clandestine archives
War crimesResistancePeopleAllies
Bełżec: The Construction Site You Could Guess
Stanisław Kozak, a Polish worker from the town of Bełżec conscripted for the first buildings of the camp
War crimesResistance
Singapore Falls: Stay or Go?
Henry Gordon Bennett, major general, commanding the 8th Australian Division at Singapore
StrategyPeople
The Coastal Lights and the U-boats
A mayor of a Florida seaside resort town
Civilian life
Canadian Corvettes: Holding the Convoy
A Royal Canadian Navy escort corvette commander (generic role)
Naval
Radji Beach: The Survivors Washed Ashore at Dawn
Irene Drummond, matron of the Australian Army Nursing Service, senior survivor of the sinking of the Vyner Brooke
War crimesPeople
POW in Singapore: raise an army for Japan?
Captain Mohan Singh, British Indian Army officer captured by the Japanese
PoliticsPeopleAxis
Sook Ching: Summoned to the Checkpoint
A young Chinese man of Singapore summoned to a Kempeitai checkpoint
War crimesAxis
A Tanker Alone Off Cape Hatteras
A captain of a U.S. Merchant Marine tanker (generic role)
NavalSupply Chain
The West Coast Under Pressure — Roosevelt and EO 9066
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
PoliticsWar crimesCivilian lifeAllies
Darwin: what to tell the nation?
The Australian government
AirPoliticsCivilian lifeAllies
Badung Strait: Striking the Bali Convoy
Karel Doorman, Dutch rear admiral commanding the ABDA naval squadron in the Dutch East Indies
NavalCombat
The Riom Trial: What Defence for a Defendant?
Léon Blum, former Popular Front Prime Minister, defendant at the Riom trial
Politics
Curtin versus Churchill: the battle over the Pacific divisions
John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia
EssentialsStrategyPoliticsAllies
Yamamoto and the Next Offensive
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet
EssentialsNavalStrategyOffensiveAxis
The Lost Company of Timor
Major Alexander Spence, commanding the 2/2nd Independent Company (Sparrow Force)
GroundCovert opsPeopleAllies
The Circular That Divided Norway's Schools
The teachers of Norway
ResistanceCivilian lifePoliticsAllies
Believing the First Reports of Mass Killings in the East?
Ignacy Schwarzbart, Jewish representative on the Polish National Council attached to the Polish government-in-exile in London
War crimesPoliticsIntelligence
Demyansk: Supply the Pocket From the Air?
Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik, colonel and chief of air transport (Lufttransportführer Ost) of Luftflotte 1
AirAxisSupply Chain
The Direction-Finders Close In — Occupied Norway
A clandestine radio operator of the Norwegian resistance (Milorg), liaising with Britain's SOE (documented generic role)
Covert opsResistance
The Sittang Bridge: Blow It With the Division Behind?
John Smyth ("Jackie" Smyth), British major-general commanding the 17th Indian Division in Burma
GroundStrategyDefensive
Battleships Stuck in Port for Want of Fuel — Central Mediterranean
Admiral Angelo Iachino, commander-in-chief of the battle forces of Italy's Regia Marina
NavalAxis
Ceylon Under Threat — Defending the Gate of the Indian Ocean
The British commander-in-chief responsible for Ceylon (documented generic role)
StrategyNaval
Rangoon on the Brink
General Thomas Hutton, Commander of British Forces in Burma
StrategyDefensiveAllies
Burma: Fleeing Rangoon Before the Japanese Tide
an Indian refugee from Rangoon, a labourer of Burma's Indian community facing the Japanese advance
Civilian life
A Few Days to Settle Everything Before Evacuation
A Japanese American head of household in California, a farmer ordered to evacuate the West Coast (generic role, representative of tens of thousands of families)
Civilian lifePolitics
Pacific Coast: Stay or Report to the Assembly Centre?
A Japanese Canadian from British Columbia (documented composite case)
Civilian lifePolitics
Java Sea — Doorman and the ABDA Squadron
Rear Admiral Karel Doorman, commanding the ABDA Strike Force
NavalCombatDefensiveAllies
Bruneval: The Secret of the Würzburg
Vice-Admiral Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations
Covert opsAirIntelligenceAllies
Kerch: Exploiting the Bridgehead?
General Dmitri Kozlov, commander of the Crimean Front
CombatGround
The Leclerc Column at the Gates of the Fezzan
Philippe Leclerc (Leclerc de Hauteclocque), colonel commanding Free France's forces in Chad
PoliticsGround
The Last Stand of Perth and Houston
Captain Hector Waller, commanding HMAS Perth and senior officer of the Allied force
NavalCombatAllies
PQ-12: The Tirpitz Threat
John Tovey, admiral commanding the British Home Fleet, Scapa Flow
NavalIntelligence
2 Factories, One Heavy Tank
Henschel and Porsche design bureaus, rivals for the German heavy tank
Engineering & ProductionAxis
March 1943 — where to place the escorts?
The staff of Western Approaches Command, in Liverpool
EssentialsNavalStrategyOffensiveAllies
U-202 — 14 hours under the hunt
Kapitänleutnant Günter Poser, commanding the submarine U-202, in the North Atlantic
NavalDefensiveCombatAxis
Rationing Penicillin
Dr Chester Keefer, chairman of the Committee on Chemotherapy of the National Research Council
Supply ChainEngineering & Production
Valletta, Fiat and the German Occupier
Vittorio Valletta, managing director of Fiat
Supply ChainResistance
Shaggy Ridge — a crest one man wide
Brigadier Ivan Dougherty, commanding the Australian 21st Brigade (7th Division), in the Finisterre Range
CombatGroundOffensiveAllies
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