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identities. Arts and sciences are an integral part of German culture, and the Germans have been represented by many prominent personalities in a significantBattle of Verdun (16,681 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Germans planned to capture the Meuse Heights, an excellent defensive position, with good observation for artillery-fire on Verdun. The Germans hopedBattle of France (22,775 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
there. British, Belgian and French forces were pushed back to the sea by the Germans where the British and French navies evacuated the encircled elementsBattle of Stalingrad (23,273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
sides continued pouring reinforcements into the city. By mid-November, the Germans, at great cost, had pushed the Soviet defenders back into narrow zonesBattle of the Bulge (19,665 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy each of the four Allied armies and force theList of German monarchs (930 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
orientalium ("king of the East Franks"), and later just rex. A reference to the "Germans", indicating the emergence of a German nation of some sort, did not appearOperation Dragoon (7,984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
decisive breakthrough, until the Germans were finally able to complete their withdrawal and retreat from the town. While the Germans were retreating, the FrenchNormandy landings (11,158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weatherOperation Barbarossa (21,432 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
end of 1941, and the subsequent Soviet winter counteroffensive pushed the Germans about 250 km (160 mi) back. German high command anticipated a quick collapseLapland War (5,177 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1944 – in Finland's northernmost region, Lapland. Though the Finns and the Germans had been fighting together against the Soviet Union since 1941 duringCase Blue (8,114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Baku (Azerbaijan SSR), Grozny and Maikop for two purposes: to enable the Germans to re-supply their low fuel stock and also to deny their use to the SovietOperation Overlord (11,927 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
deception that used electronic and visual misinformation to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. Adolf HitlerFirst Battle of the Marne (8,000 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Paris and destroying the French and British armies (Allies/Entente). The Germans had initial successes in August. They were victorious in the BattlesEuropean theatre of World War II (17,441 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
days while the Germans pushed towards Paris. Weygand arrived and replaced 12 generals, notably employing general Charles de Gaulle. The Germans broke throughWarsaw Uprising (17,635 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
suburbs of the city, the Red Army halted combat operations, enabling the Germans to regroup and defeat the Polish resistance and to destroy the city inOperation Market Garden (23,006 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
river. The Germans subsequently rounded up most of those left behind, but some of the British and Polish paratroopers managed to avoid capture by the GermansNorwegian campaign (15,935 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
pushed for action to be taken to confront the Germans away from France. These developments concerned the Germans. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact had placedBattle of Passchendaele (15,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Although a general withdrawal had seemed inevitable in early October, the Germans were able to avoid one due to the resistance of the 4th Army, unusuallyBattle of Jutland (20,602 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
naval forces contained and away from Britain and her shipping lanes. The Germans planned to use Vice-Admiral Franz Hipper's fast scouting group of fiveGerman spring offensive (4,719 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
21 March 1918. Following American entry into the war in April 1917, the Germans decided that their only remaining chance of victory was to defeat theFlight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) (25,274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union. The idea to expel the Germans from the annexed territories had been proposed by Winston Churchill,Axis occupation of Greece (13,946 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
territory was divided into occupation zones run by the Axis powers, with the Germans administering the most important regions of the country themselves, includingBattle of Crete (14,586 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Cretan civilians, defended the island. After only one day of fighting, the Germans had suffered heavy casualties and the Allied troops were confident thatFrench Resistance (32,898 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
denouncing each other to the Germans. Desnos's appeal failed, but the phrase "J'irai le dire à la Kommandantur" ("I'll go and tell the Germans about it") was aInvasion of Poland (15,057 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
after the Gleiwitz incident. Slovak military forces advanced alongside the Germans in northern Slovakia. As the Wehrmacht advanced, Polish forces withdrewGerman occupation of Norway (7,087 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
delayed the Germans, so that the King and government had the chance to escape from Oslo. In the other cities that were attacked, the Germans faced onlyU-boat (7,167 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in 1915 was abandoned after strong protests from the US but in 1917 the Germans, facing deadlock on the continent, saw no other option than to resumeWestern Front (World War I) (10,272 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
garrison of Namur isolated, with the Belgian capital, Brussels, falling to the Germans on 20 August. Although the German army bypassed Antwerp, it remainedGerman invasion of Belgium (1940) (14,589 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
committed the best of the Allied armies to Belgium between 10 and 12 May, the Germans enacted the second phase of their operation, a break-through, or sickleDieppe Raid (12,636 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mountbatten both claimed that these lessons had outweighed the cost. The Germans also believed that Dieppe was a learning experience and made a considerableBattle of Cambrai (1917) (3,780 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
defence of Bourlon Ridge by the Germans, as well as their counter-attack, were also notable achievements, which gave the Germans hope that an offensive strategyBattle of the Somme (10,448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
British attacks in the Ancre valley resumed in January 1917 and forced the Germans into local withdrawals to reserve lines in February before the strategicBattle of Monte Cassino (13,073 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Lying in a protected historic zone, it had been left unoccupied by the Germans, although they manned some positions set into the slopes below the abbey'sFranco-Prussian War (15,104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
bluff". Even though Ducrot shrugged off the possibility of an attack by the Germans, MacMahon tried to warn his other three division commanders, withoutKingdom of Germany (4,867 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Germany or German Kingdom (Latin: regnum Teutonicorum 'kingdom of the Germans', regnum Teutonicum 'German kingdom', regnum Alamanie "kingdom of Germany")Dodecanese campaign (3,382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
September 1943, Italy switched sides and joined the Allies. As a result, the Germans made plans to seize control of the Dodecanese, which were under ItalianEast African campaign (World War I) (6,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
The campaign all but ended in German East Africa in November 1917 when the Germans entered Mozambique and continued the campaign living off Portuguese suppliesTrench warfare (15,801 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
doctrines: the French relied on the attack with speed and surprise, and the Germans relied on firepower, investing heavily in howitzers and machine gunsBattle of Kursk (20,279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Румянцев) against the German forces on the southern side of the salient. The Germans hoped to weaken the Soviet offensive potential for the summer of 1943Rupert, King of the Romans (936 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Rupert of the Palatinate (German: Ruprecht von der Pfalz; 5 May 1352 – 18 May 1410), sometimes known as Robert of the Palatinate, a member of the HouseGerman invasion of Denmark (1940) (4,052 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Thorvald Stauning ended the opposition to the German attack, for fear that the Germans would bomb Copenhagen (København), as they had done with Warsaw duringTerritory of the Military Commander in Serbia (14,384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
economy), and Reichsminister Joachim von Ribbentrop (for foreign affairs). The Germans used Bulgarian troops to assist in the occupation, but they were at allIntelligenzaktion (1,665 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Polish society) early in the Second World War (1939–45) by Nazi Germany. The Germans conducted the operations in accordance with their plan to Germanize theBattle of Dunkirk (5,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
initiated "Plan D" and British and French troops entered Belgium to engage the Germans in the Netherlands. French planning for war relied on the Maginot LineHindenburg Line (16,184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
had inflicted huge losses on the Austro-Hungarian armies and forced the Germans to take over more of the front. The declaration of war by Romania hadMaginot Line (7,990 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
fortifications. It was impervious to most forms of attack; consequently, the Germans invaded through the Low Countries in 1940, passing it to the north. TheOperation Mincemeat (8,043 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
they had been read and Ultra decrypts of German messages showed that the Germans fell for the ruse. German reinforcements were shifted to Greece and SardiniaWestern Front (World War II) (7,928 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the fighting between the Allies and the Germans began in earnest with the Norwegian Campaign when the Germans launched Operation Weserübung, the GermanUkrainian Insurgent Army (14,504 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
14 October 1942. From February 1943, the organization fought against the Germans in Volhynia and Polesia. At the same time, its forces fought an evenlyWestern Front (World War II) (7,928 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the fighting between the Allies and the Germans began in earnest with the Norwegian Campaign when the Germans launched Operation Weserübung, the GermanFirst Battle of the Masurian Lakes (5,980 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Further progress was hampered by the arrival of the Russian Tenth Army on the Germans' right flank. By the conclusion of the battle, the Imperial German ArmySecond Battle of the Marne (1,843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
forces and supported by several hundreds of Renault FT tanks, overwhelmed the Germans on their right flank, inflicting severe casualties. The German defeatGerman invasion of the Netherlands (16,787 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the devastating Nazi bombing of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe on 14 May, the Germans threatened to bomb other Dutch cities if the Dutch forces refused toCollaboration in German-occupied Poland (8,428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Poland, citizens of all its major ethnic groups collaborated with the Germans. Estimates of the number of collaborators vary. Collaboration in PolandThe Holocaust in Albania (4,763 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to the Germans 281 Jews from Kosovo who were subsequently deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where many were killed. In late 1944, the GermansChetniks (24,067 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Bosnia, and, after the Italian capitulation in September 1943, with the Germans directly. The Chetniks were active in the uprising in the German-occupiedEthnonym (952 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ethnic group of Germany is the Germans. The ethnonym Germans is a Latin-derived exonym used in the English language, but the Germans call themselves DeutscheGerman occupation of the Channel Islands (13,514 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
British forces raids on the islands. Many islanders were employed by the Germans, and Germany imported thousands of forced labourers to build extensiveWarsaw Ghetto Uprising (8,221 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
resisted, engaging the Germans in direct clashes. Though the ŻZW and ŻOB suffered heavy losses (including some of their leaders), the Germans also took casualtiesGovernment of National Salvation (4,378 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Bulgarians as much as they hated the Germans. Nedić frequently complained about their presence to the Germans and demanded that the Bulgarians withdrawLight cruiser (1,743 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Caroline remains - the only extant survivor of the Battle of Jutland. The Germans built a number of light cruisers in the belief that they were good multi-purposeGerman occupation of Albania (1,610 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Germans favoured the nationalist Balli Kombëtar over King Zog I's Legalists and the occupation was marked by collaboration between them and the GermansScuttling of the French fleet at Toulon (4,075 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
German forces from seizing it. After the Allied invasion of North Africa, the Germans invaded the territory administered by Vichy under the Armistice of 1940Netherlands in World War II (9,047 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
although lower than in Lithuania. Declassified records revealed that the Germans paid a bounty to Dutch police and administration officials to locateHundred Days Offensive (2,655 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
German Army back, undoing its gains from the German spring offensive. The Germans retreated to the Hindenburg Line, but the Allies broke through the lineSiegfried Line campaign (4,905 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
continuing their advance from Paris to the River Rhine. The pause allowed the Germans to solidify their lines—something they had been unable to do west ofDutch resistance (7,125 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
thousands of members of all the 'non-resisting' categories were arrested by the Germans and often subsequently jailed for months, tortured, sent to concentrationMilitary history of Italy during World War II (14,726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Axis partner Germany. The northern half of the country was occupied by the Germans with the cooperation of Italian fascists, and became a collaborationistMassacre of the Acqui Division (6,677 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Achse. On 13 September the Italians of the Acqui resisted, and fought the Germans on the island of Cephalonia. By 22 September the last of the ItalianItalian Civil War (14,658 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Army was created to fight against the Germans, while other Italian troops continued to fight alongside the Germans in the National Republican Army. InDraža Mihailović (14,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(brzi odred) shortly before the Yugoslav High Command capitulated to the Germans on 17 April 1941. Following the invasion and occupation of YugoslaviaBattle of Vimy Ridge (9,820 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
through northeastern France. The French Tenth Army attempted to dislodge the Germans from the region during the Second Battle of Artois in May 1915 by attackingDouble-Cross System (3,422 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
their operations. In addition, some were false agents who had tricked the Germans into believing they would spy for them if they helped them reach EnglandDestruction of Kalisz (1,789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
days, with the Germans staging short raids into the city. As the shelling started fires, general panic broke out, and even as the Germans threatened toSoviet Union in World War II (16,415 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The city of Leningrad was besieged while other major cities fell to the Germans. Despite initial successes, the German offensive ground to a halt inOperation Cobra (6,127 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
World War II. The intention was to take advantage of the distraction of the Germans by the British and Canadian attacks around Caen in Operation GoodwoodGerman-occupied territory of Montenegro (791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
had been captured by the Germans in May 1943 and interned, but then escaped to Belgrade and was accepted as an ally by the Germans and Nedić. With GermanBattles of Narvik (7,595 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the town of Narvik and being pushed back towards the Swedish border, the Germans eventually prevailed because of the Allied evacuation from Norway inGerman colonization of Africa (3,496 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1898, the Germans controlled all of Tanganyika’s main population centers and lines of communication. The next item of business for the Germans was toExpulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia (6,263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
deportation of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia. The decision to deport the Germans was adopted by the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile which, beginningDenmark in World War II (8,799 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
attack on Copenhagen had made any attempt to defend Zealand impossible. The Germans had also been quick to establish control over the bridge across the LittleJudenrat (2,008 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
represent a Jewish community in dealings with the Nazi authorities. The Germans required Jews to form Judenräte across the occupied territories at localBattle of Hürtgen Forest (6,025 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
inflicting heavy casualties, and taking full advantage of the fortifications the Germans called the Westwall, better known to the Allies as the Siegfried LineBattle of Aachen (5,925 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
strength of just 25 – but the Western Allies' logistical problems gave the Germans a respite, which they used to begin rebuilding their strength. In SeptemberOperation Mihailovic (3,429 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
cities of Čačak, Kraljevo, Kruševac). Slightly later in October, however, the Germans began an offensive against the Chetniks (Operation Drina), when the 342ndSecond Battle of the Aisne (7,102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
When the French armies met the British advancing from the Arras front, the Germans would be pursued towards Belgium and the German frontier. The offensiveBattle of Mons (7,715 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
were eventually forced to retreat due both to the greater strength of the Germans and the sudden retreat of the French Fifth Army, which exposed the BritishBattle of Tannenberg (5,895 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
broadcasting their daily marching orders in the clear, which allowed the Germans to make their movements with the confidence they would not be flankedBattle of Arnhem (11,579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
at Oosterbeek was blown up by the Germans when the first British paratroops tried to rush across and seize it. The Germans had moved the Old Ship bridgeJuan Pujol García (4,683 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
he relocated to Britain to carry out fictitious spying activities for the Germans. He was given the codename Garbo by the British; their German counterpartsGerman invasion of Greece (14,741 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
not receive adequate troop reinforcements and was quickly overrun by the Germans, who then outflanked the Greek forces at the Albanian border, forcingPavle Đurišić (9,438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Đurišić was captured by the Germans in May 1943, escaped, and was recaptured. After the capitulation of Italy, the Germans released Đurišić and he beganSecond Battle of Kharkov (5,600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
victory, with 280,000 Soviet casualties compared to just 20,000 for the Germans and their allies. The German Army Group South pressed its advantage,Blitzkrieg (15,466 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
but were frustrated when German forces arrived first and pressed on. The Germans successfully used blitzkrieg tactics in invading Belgium, The NetherlandsMilitary history of the Netherlands during World War II (3,145 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
day, the Germans mounted their final attack against the Grebbe Line. The stop line, the last resort of the Dutch defenders, collapsed and the Germans brokePliny the Elder (6,173 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
which began where Aufidius Bassus' Libri Belli Germanici ("The War with the Germans") left off, was used as a source by other prominent Roman historiansKragujevac massacre (6,716 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mihailović that further attacks against the Germans would only result in more Serb civilian deaths. The Germans soon found mass executions of Serbs toOperation Fortitude (4,840 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
after the invasion on 6 June 1944, to delay reinforcement by convincing the Germans that the landings had been purely a diversionary attack. Fortitude wasTimeline of World War II (1944) (6,906 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Siege of Leningrad ended after 872 days, as Soviet forces finally forced the Germans to withdraw. Some 2 million died, mostly of starvation and disease. 28:Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) (4,533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
caught up with the Germans and engaged them with long-range gunfire. The British disabled Blücher, the rearmost German ship and the Germans put the BritishJune Uprising in Lithuania (4,378 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was directed militarily against the Soviets but politically against the Germans, who were against the declaration of Lithuanian independence, the establishmentItalian Social Republic (5,967 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
this, the Germans eventually pinpointed Mussolini at the Hotel Campo Imperatore at Gran Sasso. On 12 September, Mussolini was freed by the Germans in OperationGermans in Korea (614 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Germans in Korea have a long history, though they have never formed a significant population. The first German to set foot on Korean soil, in 1832, wasBattle for Caen (15,134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(18–20 July). The fighting was mutually costly and greatly deprived the Germans of the means to reinforce the west end of the invasion front. In theThird Battle of the Aisne (949 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of a series of offensives, known as the Kaiserschlacht, launched by the Germans in the spring and summer of 1918. The massive surprise attack (namedGothic Line (6,711 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Grüne Linie) in June 1944. Using more than 15,000 slave labourers, the Germans created more than 2,000 well-fortified machine gun nests, casemates,Italian resistance movement (8,612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
its Fascist puppet state regime, the Italian Social Republic, which the Germans created following the Nazi German invasion and military occupation ofMilitary history of the United Kingdom during World War II (18,634 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Bologna was in a salient held by the Germans, and Lake Comacchio was crossed by an amphibious attack. The Germans were close to breaking. In the nextTransnistria Governorate (6,194 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the war. However, Antonescu's stubborn insistence eventually swayed the Germans. While refusing to declare Transnistria's annexation, Antonescu instructedMordechai Anielewicz (2,691 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
back to other Polish occupied territories to continue the fight against the Germans. He then attempted to cross the Romanian border to open a route for youngSecond Battle of Ypres (5,228 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
fire, the second time three men were killed and fifty wounded. Some of the Germans were protected by miners' oxygen breathing apparatus.[citation needed]Lviv pogroms (1941) (4,416 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
blamed on "Jewish Bolsheviks". The subsequent massacres were directed by the Germans in the context of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. The pogroms have beenBattle of Smolensk (1941) (4,710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the pocket. While the battle was a stunning operational success for the Germans, the rapid advances into Soviet territory led to supply and logisticsJedwabne pogrom (9,040 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
T. Gross, "the undisputed bosses of life and death in Jedwabne were the Germans," who were "the only ones who could decide the fate of the Jews." KnowledgeOperation Achse (13,359 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
desertions, resisted the Germans. On the Greek island of Cephalonia, 1,315 Italian soldiers were killed in action against the Germans and over 5,100 ItalianBattles of Rzhev (5,519 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Rzhev, but the Germans were forced to withdraw from an important bridgehead which had enabled the Germans to threaten Moscow. The Germans, however, retreatedThe Holocaust in German-occupied Serbia (5,002 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
collaborationist forces of the successive puppet governments established by the Germans in the occupied territory. Immediately after the occupation, the occupationSiege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) (9,128 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Finally, on 4 July 1942, the remaining Soviet forces surrendered and the Germans seized the port. The Soviet Separate Coastal Army was annihilated, withArmistice of Cassibile (2,715 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
north and centre of the country, with most of Italy being occupied by the Germans, who established a puppet state, the Italian Social Republic led by MussoliniArmistice of 11 November 1918 (5,720 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Scheidemann, also a Social Democrat, declared Germany a republic. Whilst the Germans sought negotiations along the lines of Wilson's 14 points, the FrenchWorld War II (26,008 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Africa, Operation Crusader, and reclaimed all the gains the Germans and Italians had made. The Germans also launched a North African offensive in January,Battle of Amiens (1918) (4,653 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with revolutionary-controlled Russia, the Germans were able to transfer hundreds of thousands of men to the Western FrontCollaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (20,012 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
October 1942. Encouraging the Germans to delegate tasks to the Committee made their implementation much more efficient than the Germans could have achievedEastern Front (World War II) (22,518 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
in early February, the Germans managed to cut off this force, separating the Soviets from their main force in the rear of the Germans. They were suppliedWarsaw Ghetto (7,814 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the East" over the course of the summer. The ghetto was demolished by the Germans in May 1943 after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had temporarily halted theHome Army (11,585 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
down substantial German forces. It also fought pitched battles against the Germans, particularly in 1943 and in Operation Tempest from January 1944. TheGerman invasion of Belgium (1914) (8,477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
several days. Belgian resistance and German fear of francs-tireurs, led the Germans to implement a policy of terror (schrecklichkeit) against Belgian civiliansDanish resistance movement (3,396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
sabotage against the Germans, destroying Nazi German assets with makeshift grenades and stealing Nazi German weapons. When the Germans forced the DanishHDMS Niels Juel (1918) (2,647 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
deny the ship to the Germans, but Niels Juel was not badly damaged. The ship was refloated several months later and repaired by the Germans. They renamedOriol Mitjà (1,394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Princess of Girona Award in the scientific research category. Currently at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute, Mitjà is conducting research on SARS-CoV-2Ultra (cryptography) (10,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
ensure that the successful code-breaking did not become apparent to the Germans, British intelligence created a fictional MI6 master spy, Boniface, whoVichy France (23,118 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the northern and western portions of the country, but in November 1942 the Germans and Italians occupied the remainder of Metropolitan France, ending anyList of military engagements of World War I (6,041 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
lost to the Germans in the 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War, which France started, was played out in a series of frontier battles between the Germans and theKovno Ghetto (1,911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
assist the Nazis in the genocide. Between July and August 15, 1941, the Germans concentrated Jews who survived the initial pogroms, some 29,000 peopleWestern Allied invasion of Germany (11,817 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Battle of Hürtgen Forest in late 1944 and by January 1945, had pushed the Germans back to their starting points during the Battle of the Bulge. The failureDimitrije Ljotić (8,800 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
through two of his closest associates whom the Germans had selected as commissioners. In September 1941, the Germans gave Ljotić permission to form the SerbianGreat Retreat (4,790 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
During 23 August the Germans concentrated on the British at the salient formed by a loop in the canal. At 9:00 a.m., the Germans attempted to crossBattle of Loos (3,234 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
better equipment and gas, the Franco-British attacks were contained by the Germans, except for local losses of ground. The British gas attack failed sufficientlyMilitary history of the United States during World War II (16,304 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Allied forces deployed, bogged down after Italy surrendered and the Germans took over. Finally, the main invasion of France took place in June 1944Biała Podlaska (3,866 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
halted the town's development because of Nazi and Soviet repression. The Germans captured Biała Podlaska on 13 September 1939, but withdrew on 26 SeptemberFrench destroyer Siroco (1939) (837 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Battle of France, the ship sailed to French Algeria to avoid capture by the Germans. She was renamed Siroco in early 1941 while still under constructionFrench destroyer Lansquenet (1939) (940 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
1930s. Placed into service after the French signed an armistice with the Germans in June 1940, she sailed to French Morocco to avoid capture. In NovemberTimeline of World War II (1943) (4,779 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
US House of Representatives votes to extend the Lend-Lease plan. 11: The Germans enter Kharkov and the fierce struggle with the Red Army continues. 12Mass murders in Tykocin (663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Treaty. In June 1941, the town was taken by the Germans in Operation Barbarossa.[better source needed] The Germans initially bypassed the town; local PolesGermans in the Philippines (1,191 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
seeing this as obstruction of his blockade, offered war — after which the Germans backed down. The Battle of Manila Bay took place on 1 May 1898, followingOperation Bodyguard (4,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
which all deception planners would operate. The overall aim was to lead the Germans to believe that an invasion of northwest Europe would come later thanMass murders in Tykocin (663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Treaty. In June 1941, the town was taken by the Germans in Operation Barbarossa.[better source needed] The Germans initially bypassed the town; local PolesNorwegian heavy water sabotage (4,490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of producing heavy water, however, and the Allies were concerned that the Germans would use the facility to produce more heavy water. Between 1940 andBattle of the Atlantic (18,581 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ships and aircraft of the United States beginning September 13, 1941. The Germans were joined by submarines of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) afterAdolf, King of the Romans (3,873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Archbishop of Mainz, in the name of all the electors, elected Adolf King of the Germans (Emperor-Elect). He was crowned in Aachen on 24 June by the ArchbishopThe Blitz (17,214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
May 1941, for a little more than 8 months during the Second World War. The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and citiesGermans in the Philippines (1,191 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
seeing this as obstruction of his blockade, offered war — after which the Germans backed down. The Battle of Manila Bay took place on 1 May 1898, followingTimeline of World War I (1,680 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
United States declares neutrality. August 5 – 16 Western Battle of Liège. The Germans besiege and then capture the fortresses of Liège, Belgium. August 5 AsianHistory of Poland (1939–1945) (24,896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
about 150,000 due to the Soviet occupation. The Jews were singled out by the Germans for a quick and total annihilation and about 90 percent of Polish JewsBray-sur-Somme (1,931 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
However, as the Germans continued their thrust during the Battle of Albert 25–29 September 1914, Bray attracted heavy bombing, compelling the Germans to evacuateWola massacre (2,212 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
civilians along with captured Home Army resistance fighters were murdered by the Germans in organised mass executions throughout Wola. Whole families, includingGreek resistance (4,091 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
its roots in the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas from 1936 to 1941. The Germans set up a collaborationist Greek government, headed by General GeorgiosBattle of Mărășești (1,398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
10 cavalry squadrons and 213 artillery batteries (31 heavy). Facing the Germans was the Russian 4th Army. Its defenses were still under constructionWorld War I (21,752 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Germans attacked French defensive positions at the Battle of Verdun, lasting until December 1916. Casualties were greater for the French, but theCommissioner Government (5,626 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
considered more dangerous than the Germans, such as democracy, communism and multiculturalism. They actively assisted the Germans in exploiting the populationSabotage (4,691 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
machinery to destroy. "Saboteurs learned hundreds of small tricks to cause the Germans big trouble. The cables in a telephone junction box ... could be jumbledRadom (4,104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
January 1940, the Germans carried out several public executions of Polish civilians in various locations in Radom, killing 111 people. The Germans also operatedGerman occupation of Belgium during World War II (9,340 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
persecution and deportation to concentration camps. Despite vigorous protest, the Germans deported Belgian civilians to work in factories in Germany. MeanwhileBaltic Slavic piracy (1,507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Slavs were also known for bee-keeping, trading their honey and wax to the Germans for use in church candles and in sealing documents. Once trade beganMaly Trostenets (934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
During Nazi Germany's occupation of the area during World War II (when the Germans referred to it as Reichskommissariat Ostland), the village became theGermans in South Africa (642 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
all of them males. They came from all German-speaking areas of Europe. The Germans who arrived at the Cape in the seventeenth century were not emigrantsSchlieffen Plan (14,576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
December 1905, Schlieffen wrote that the Germans would be so outnumbered against France and Russia, that the Germans must rely on a counter-offensive strategyBattle of Neuve Chapelle (2,971 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
advance of 10–15 mi (16–24 km) would cut the roads and railways used by the Germans, to supply the troops in the Noyon Salient from Arras south to RheimsBattle of the Beams (4,307 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
course. The Germans became convinced the British had somehow learned to bend radio signals. When the problem became widespread, the Germans introducedOperation Tempest (3,180 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
objective was to seize control of German-occupied cities and areas while the Germans were preparing their defenses against the advancing Soviet Red Army.Battle of the Denmark Strait (7,886 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
soon broke off the engagement. The battle was a tactical victory for the Germans, but its impact was short-lived. The damage done to Bismarck's forwardLela Karagianni (589 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
tortured by the Germans in 1944, Karagianni was sent to Haidari concentration camp, where she continued to organize a resistance against the Germans. She wasDiphenylcyanoarsine (85 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Germans, was discovered in 1918 by Sturniolo and Bellinzoni and shortly thereafter used like the related diphenylchlorarsine "Clark 1" gas by theTimeline of World War II (1942) (10,438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
they now threaten Rangoon as well as Singapore. On the Eastern front, the Germans are in retreat at several points. The last organised Allied forces leaveZimmermann telegram (4,631 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
American forces and slowed the export of American arms to the Allies. The Germans had aided in arming Mexico, as shown by the 1914 Ypiranga incident. GermanBattle of Moscow (8,008 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and nearly surrounded three German armies. It was a major setback for the Germans, and the end of their belief in a swift German victory over the USSROperation Avalanche (2,819 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
bombardment in order to achieve surprise. Surprise was not achieved. The Germans had established artillery and machine-gun posts and scattered tanks throughBelgium in World War I (4,511 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
down, as did the universities. The Germans helped set up the first solely Dutch-speaking university in Ghent. The Germans sent in managers to operate factoriesBernard Montgomery (20,131 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
while forcing the Germans to commit the last of their reserves to stop the Anglo-Canadian offensive. "Ultra" decrypts indicated that the Germans now facingJanowska concentration camp (1,949 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
nearby street Janowska in Lwów of the interwar Second Polish Republic. The Germans liquidated the camp in November 1943, with the evidence of mass murderBattle of Westerplatte (5,245 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
: 101 The Germans assaulted again from 08:35 to 12:30 but encountered mines, felled trees, barbed wire and intense fire. By noon, when the Germans retreatedBaedeker Blitz (2,488 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the effect on British civilian morale, bombing targets were chosen by the Germans for their cultural and historical significance rather than for any militaryOperation Bagration (7,357 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
would anticipate this, sought to deceive the Germans by creating a crisis in Byelorussia that would force the Germans to move their powerful armoured forcesUtah Beach (4,998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The intention was to rapidly seal off the Cotentin Peninsula, prevent the Germans from reinforcing Cherbourg, and capture the port as quickly as possibleOperation Epsom (9,493 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
agreement concerning its effect on the balance of forces in Normandy. The Germans contained the offensive but only by committing all their strength, includingNivelle offensive (5,623 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Scarpe river in the Battle of Arras, which inflicted many casualties on the Germans, attracted reserves and captured Vimy Ridge to the north. The main FrenchActions of the Bluff, 1916 (4,982 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
14 to 15 February and on 2 March 1916, the Germans and the British fought for control of the Bluff, the Germans capturing the mound and defeating counter-attacksBattle of the Scheldt (12,057 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Battle of the Scheldt, the Wehrmacht defenders had been reinforced. The Germans staged an effective delaying action during which they flooded land areasKosta Pećanac (3,405 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
collaboration with the Germans ruined what remained of the reputation he had developed in the Balkan Wars and World War I. The Germans rapidly realisedStrategic bombing during World War I (2,144 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of cities, intended to destroy the enemy's morale, was introduced by the Germans in the opening days of the war. A multi-national air force to strikeThe Holocaust in Belgium (5,491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
burned the house of the chief rabbi of the town in the Antwerp Pogrom. The Germans created a Judenrat in the country, the Association des Juifs en BelgiqueFirst Battle of Ypres (8,856 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
III Corps and the Cavalry Corps from 12 to 18 October against which the Germans retired and an offensive by the German 6th Army and 4th Army from 19Restatement of Policy on Germany (1,380 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
its message of a change to a policy of economic reconstruction gave the Germans hope for the future. Due to a controversial comment about the Polish-GermanJewish Combat Organization (1,304 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
reports seriously and had no illusions about the true intentions of the Germans.[citation needed] A document published three months before the startGermans in India (556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
There is a small community of Germans in India consisting largely of expatriate professionals from Germany and their families as well as internationalGerman occupation of Belgium during World War I (4,260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Havre government. During the course of their advance through Belgium, the Germans committed a number of war crimes against the Belgian civilian populationGerman occupation of Belgium during World War I (4,260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Havre government. During the course of their advance through Belgium, the Germans committed a number of war crimes against the Belgian civilian populationEastern Front (World War I) (13,517 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
of the battle, the Germans lost from 38,000 to 60,000 soldiers and Russian losses amounted to about 40,000 men. In March, the Germans tried to take PolandPier House Museum (267 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
located in the old Pier House, which was once the centre for trade with the Germans and the export of dried and salted fish to the Hanseatic League, an allianceStracin–Kumanovo operation (4,850 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Soviet advance towards Belgrade. Although the Bulgarian army drove the Germans out of Skopje and what is now North Macedonia, later the Yugoslav andOccupation of Poland (1939–1945) (12,224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
which were launched by the Germans and Soviets. Overall, during German occupation of pre-war Polish territory, 1939–1945, the Germans murdered 5,470,000–5Uprising in Serbia (1941) (4,840 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
negotiations with the quisling government and the Germans in order to destroy the rival Partisans. The Germans soon gathered a large force and quelled theCivilian life under the German occupation of the Channel Islands (13,725 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
weapons, and equipment had been taken to England.: 50 They did not tell the Germans, and on 28 June German bombers appeared in the skies and bombed and strafedGermans in India (556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
There is a small community of Germans in India consisting largely of expatriate professionals from Germany and their families as well as internationalVirginia Hall (5,070 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
agents and pilots." She fled France in November 1942 to avoid capture by the Germans. She returned to France as a wireless operator for the OSS in March 1944Germans in Azerbaijan (540 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
time, one of important historical events in the Germans' life took place, the 100th anniversary of the Germans' settlement and Helenendorf colony were celebratedBattle of Villers-Bocage (10,386 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Allies and the Germans regarded control of Caen as vital to the Normandy campaign. In the days following the D-Day landings on 6 June, the Germans rapidly1987 European Cup final (204 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Portuguese were without their injured striker Fernando Gomes, while the Germans were missing their sweeper and captain Klaus Augenthaler, who was suspendedPetsamo–Kirkenes offensive (1,273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
750 aircraft, and 110 tanks (while the Germans lacked any armour), making Soviet forces far superior to the Germans. Soviet preparations, which had lastedOperation Sea Lion (17,425 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
were defeated in the May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis, but throughout July the Germans continued with attempts to find a diplomatic solution. In a report presentedLiberation of Paris (5,007 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
French Resistance began to rise against the Germans in Paris on 15 August, but the Allies were still pushing the Germans toward the Rhine and did not want toE Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States) (3,490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
[citation needed] except for one Russian who was captured by the Germans.[citation needed] The Germans opened fire sporadically and some mortar rounds fell nearFrench battleship Strasbourg (4,371 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
stationed in Mers-el-Kébir at the time. Mistakenly under the impression that the Germans sought to seize the ships, the British Force H was sent to either forceBattle of the Caucasus (1,654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Rostov-on-Don, opening the Caucasus region of the southern Soviet Union to the Germans and threatening the oil fields beyond at Maikop, Grozny, and ultimatelyBattle of Vercors (3,184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
refuge. The maquis carried out sabotage and partisan operations against the Germans. After the Normandy Invasion of 6 June 1944, the leadership of a forceSlovene Home Guard (8,401 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
organizations, which provided most of the membership, receiving assistance from the Germans rather than providing assistance to them. In the Slovenian Littoral,French battleship Dunkerque (5,121 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to prevent her capture by the Germans, and subsequently seized and partially scrapped by the Italians and later the Germans. Her wreck remained in ToulonPortugal during World War I (3,023 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Angola; in such a case, most of the land would fall into the hands of the Germans. An Angola-Bund ("Angola League" to promote a German takeover) had beenChamparan Satyagraha (642 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
land as a condition of their tenancy. This indigo was used to make dye. The Germans had invented a cheaper artificial dye so the demand for indigo fell.Marseille roundup (1,379 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of France. Assisted by the French police, directed by René Bousquet, the Germans organized a raid to arrest Jews. The police checked the identity documentsBattle of the Frontiers (8,901 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
were driven back by the Germans, who were able to invade northern France. French and British rearguard actions delayed the Germans, allowing the FrenchFalaise pocket (5,096 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
panzer divisions were insufficient to defeat the First US Army, driving the Germans deeper into the Allied envelopment. On 8 August, Allied ground forcesSiege of Metz (1870) (1,266 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
François Bazaine retreated into the Metz fortress after its defeat by the Germans at the Battle of Gravelotte on 18 August 1870. The fortress was promptlyKaiserwald concentration camp (381 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
jurisdiction of the Kaiserwald camp. Following the occupation of Hungary by the Germans, Hungarian Jews were sent to Kaiserwald, as were a number of Jews fromBattle of Loznica (1941) (1,814 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Lieutenant Colonel Veselin Misita, who was killed during the assault. The Germans surrendered and 93 were captured. This battle was closely followed byCentral Bavarian (345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
eastern parts of Styria and Burgenland. Before 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans, it was also spoken in Hungary and southern Bohemia and Moravia. It alsoKozara Offensive (1,519 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
German-NDH forces recaptured the area, including the city of Prijedor. The Germans and their allies encircled the main group and achieved their objectivesTimeline of World War II (1940) (5,617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
putting him some distance from controversy. Sark surrenders to the Germans. The Germans now control all of the British Channel Islands. The German NewsYugoslav National Movement (4,352 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Following the Axis invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia in April 1941, the Germans selected several Zbor members to join the Serbian puppet government ofSecond Battle of the Masurian Lakes (4,005 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Powers planned four offensives on their Eastern Front in early 1915. The Germans, led by Supreme Commander of All German Forces in the East Paul von HindenburgList of ambassadors of the United States to Burundi (513 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
until 1890. In that year the Germans attacked the nation and attempted to subdue it with armed force. Eventually the Germans backed an attempted coupAttack of the Dead Men (4,237 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
were bombarded with a mixture of poison gases, chlorine and bromine by the Germans. While coughing up blood, the Russians covered their faces with clothsCzęstochowa Ghetto uprising (548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
place on January 4, 1943, at the so-called Large Ghetto established by the Germans in April 1941. During the 'selection' of some 500 Jews to be deportedLiberation of France (20,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
fled to London, from where he called on his fellow citizens to resist the Germans. The British recognized and funded de Gaulle's Free French government35th Division (United Kingdom) (10,921 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
its instructing units and was fully formed by mid-March. On 13 March the Germans detonated a mine under the 18th H.L.I., killing or wounding 60 men. TheSamoan Civil War (2,134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
collapsed in 1885–1886, and the Germans arranged his exile from the Samoan Islands in 1887. In Laupepa's absence, the Germans supported Tamasese's claimBattle of Soissons (1918) (16,109 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
German forces in the Marne salient, cutting them would severely impair the Germans' ability to supply its armies defending it. This would force them toPaul von Hindenburg (21,849 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
using motor vehicles for speed, even though the Russians outnumbered the Germans by three to one. From Hindenburg's point of view, such an overwhelmingAfrican theatre of World War I (10,649 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
units in northern Kamerun were freed to push into the interior, where the Germans were defeated at the Battle of Ngaundere on 29 June. Cunliffe advancedOperation Southeast Croatia (3,322 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
cooperation in eastern Bosnia. The Partisan main force was able to evade the Germans, infiltrate through the Italian cordon to the south and establish itselfBug–Narew Offensive (3,482 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
enemy. Already at 3 o'clock the Germans began the pursuit, introducing the 86th Infantry Division into battle again. The Germans advanced 18-20 km to theHMS Lion (1910) (5,731 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the Germans put to sea. Hipper's battlecruisers spotted the Battlecruiser Fleet to their west at 15:20, but Beatty's ships did not spot the Germans toBuffalo Germans (263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Rhode and George Schell. Chuck Taylor claimed to play as a forward for the Germans as well as the Akron Firestones and the New York Celtics in industrialSiege of Antwerp (1914) (7,550 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
despite the arrival of the Royal Naval Division beginning on 3 October, the Germans penetrated the outer ring of forts. When the German advance began toCarlo Vecchiarelli (256 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
surrender all heavy weapons to the Germans, in exchange for the latter's commitment to repatriate the Army. The Germans, however, soon betrayed the agreementDominic Sandbrook (1,783 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
November 2016. "The 70s". BBC. 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2016. "Das Auto: The Germans, Their Cars and Us". BBC. 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2016. "StrangeList of ambassadors of the United States to Burundi (513 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
until 1890. In that year the Germans attacked the nation and attempted to subdue it with armed force. Eventually the Germans backed an attempted coupHMS Lion (1910) (5,731 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the Germans put to sea. Hipper's battlecruisers spotted the Battlecruiser Fleet to their west at 15:20, but Beatty's ships did not spot the Germans toŠumarice Memorial Park (516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
old World War I military cemetery with a Monument to Serbian soldier. The Germans carried out the first mass executions in the vicinity of Kragujevac onZgierz (754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by Germany, and captured on September 6. Already in September 1939, the Germans committed first atrocities against Poles and carried out executions ofSiege of Antwerp (1914) (7,550 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
despite the arrival of the Royal Naval Division beginning on 3 October, the Germans penetrated the outer ring of forts. When the German advance began toKosovo Operation (1944) (1,082 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
operation resulted in the capture of Kosovo by the Communists, although the Germans were able to successfully withdraw most of their forces and break outSamoan Civil War (2,134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
collapsed in 1885–1886, and the Germans arranged his exile from the Samoan Islands in 1887. In Laupepa's absence, the Germans supported Tamasese's claimAirbridge (logistics) (692 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
supplement to other forms of transport. During the Second World War, the Germans used air bridges on three major occasions: the Demyansk Pocket, the Battle35th Division (United Kingdom) (10,921 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
its instructing units and was fully formed by mid-March. On 13 March the Germans detonated a mine under the 18th H.L.I., killing or wounding 60 men. TheBattle of Białystok–Minsk (2,065 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Germans destroyed the Soviet Western Front in 18 days and advanced 460 kilometers into the Soviet Union, causing many to believe that the GermansBattle of Hill 70 (9,148 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
possible. The goals of the Canadian Corps were only partially accomplished; the Germans were prevented from transferring local divisions to the Ypres SalientHungary in World War II (6,515 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in Hungary were generally defeated, the Germans had one more surprise for the Soviets. On 6 March 1945, the Germans launched the Lake Balaton OffensiveIlias Degiannis (321 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was forced to leave Greece because his identity had been revealed to the Germans. Degiannis, along with fellow participants in the 1935 coup Charalambos21 cm Kanone 39 (1,175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was a Czech-designed heavy gun used by the Germans in the Second World War. Two were built before the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia in March 1939 andBattle of the Canal du Nord (2,198 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
outskirts of Cambrai between 27 September and 1 October 1918. To prevent the Germans from sending reinforcements against one attack, the assault along theSouth West Africa campaign (2,213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the rebellion. Maritz was defeated on 24 October and took refuge with the Germans; the rebellion was suppressed by early February 1915. The leading BoerFrench destroyer Vautour (242 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
November 1942 to prevent her capture by the Germans when Germany occupied Vichy France. Later refloated by the Germans, she was sunk again in an Allied airBelgrade offensive (6,710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the campaign's southernmost combat operations. By the summer of 1944, the Germans had not only lost control of practically all the mountainous area ofBattle of Belleau Wood (4,498 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
between Soissons and Reims, known as the Third Battle of the Aisne, saw the Germans reach the north bank of the Marne River at Château-Thierry, 95 kilometresBattle of the Lys (1918) (2,490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Battalion) to stem the German breakthrough but they too were defeated. The Germans broke through 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) of front and advanced up to 8 kilometresKingdom of Lithuania (1918) (2,261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
other state institutions due to the continued presence of German troops. The Germans presented various proposals to incorporate Lithuania into the GermanOperation Loyton (1,539 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
reinforcing the area, against General George Patton's Third Army. As a result, the Germans quickly became aware of their presence and conducted operations to destroyBattle of the Dnieper (3,742 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
partisan activities to intervene and disrupt Germany's supply route so that the Germans could not effectively send reinforcements or take away Soviet industrialHohenzollern Redoubt action, 2–18 March 1916 (3,967 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
occupied by the Germans, with the front near a new German trench known as The Chord. No man's land had become a crater field and the Germans had an unobstructedGerman battleship Scharnhorst (8,660 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
battleships Nelson and Rodney from the Clyde towards Norway in case the Germans intended to return to Germany, and the battlecruisers Hood and the FrenchBasters (4,509 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of its kind between any native-descended peoples in the territory and the Germans (Basters were considered native because of their partial African descent)Dnieper–Carpathian offensive (9,228 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
main Soviet summer offensive of 1944, had catastrophic consequences for the Germans during Operation Bagration. This was the only offensive in which allGermans in Finland (319 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Germans in Finland (German: Deutsche in Finnland; Finnish: Suomen saksalaiset) are immigrants from Germany residing in Finland. During the Middle AgesReichskommissariat Niederlande (3,304 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
On the longer term ("longer term" not being defined any further by the Germans other than "nach Kriegsende", meaning after the war's conclusion), theVilna Ghetto (3,669 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The first Aktion was called the Gelb Schein (yellow pass) Aktion as the Germans delivered 3,000 passes to workers and their families and let 12,000 peopleBattle of Sedan (1940) (9,866 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Sedan is situated on the east bank of the Meuse. Its capture would give the Germans a base from which to take the Meuse bridges and cross the river. TheBattle for The Hague (1,528 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
bridgehead, Nazi Germany had expected the Netherlands to surrender that day. The Germans, however, failed to achieve that objective since their forces had beenGerman attack on Vimy Ridge (6,984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
attack on the Western Front on 21 May 1916, during the First World War. The Germans intended to prevent mines being blown under German positions by capturingGerman occupation of north-east France during World War I (4,580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
advance was stopped at the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914, the Germans gained control of a portion of French territory, which remained underAnglo-German Naval Agreement (6,330 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Agreement was an ambitious attempt on the part of both the British and the Germans to reach better relations, but it ultimately foundered because of conflictingPanzer 35(t) (4,677 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
referred to as the LT vz. 35 or LT-35. A total of 434 were built; of these, the Germans seized 244 when they occupied Bohemia-Moravia in March 1939 and the SlovaksNavy of the Independent State of Croatia (2,257 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
imposed by Italy under the Treaties of Rome. To avoid these limitations, the Germans raised the Croatian Naval Legion which fought as part of the German NavyItalian occupation of Corsica (3,508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
against the Germans and liberated the island. On 8 November 1942, the Western Allies landed in North Africa in Operation Torch. The Germans implementedGerman occupation of Estonia during World War II (4,694 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
first seen by most Estonians as liberators from Soviet terror, since the Germans arrived only a week after the mass deportation of tens of thousands ofBelgian Resistance (5,288 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of the army, also surrendered to the Germans on 28 May along with his army and was also held prisoner by the Germans. On 18 June the Belgian GovernmentPolish resistance movement in World War II (6,103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
group. Although the unit of Major Dobrzański never exceeded 300 men, the Germans fielded at least 8,000 men in the area to secure it. In 1940, WitoldFootball in Germany (4,472 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Traditionally, the Germans have worn green jerseys, white shorts and green socks as their alternate uniform. In recent years, however, the Germans have changedFrumka Płotnicka (1,347 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Jewish Combat Organization in Będzin staged an uprising against the Germans (as in nearby Sosnowiec). The Będzin-Sosnowiec ghetto uprising lastedTarnów (4,992 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
were eventually captured and murdered by the Germans for rescuing Jews. Many Poles were imprisoned by the Germans in the local prison for rescuing and helpingBattle of Maastricht (1,084 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
river Maas intact, in order to have an easier road to France. Therefore, the Germans sent in teams disguised as civilians whose jobs were to sabotage theFinland in World War II (5,056 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Finland to take a more active role in pushing the Germans out of Lapland, thus intensifying hostilities. The Germans adopted a scorched-earth policy, and proceededTarzan Triumphs (700 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tarzan Triumphs is a 1943 adventure film in which Tarzan fights the Germans during World War II. Johnny Weissmuller had portrayed the Edgar Rice BurroughsBattle of Remagen (22,440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
see one of the last bridges across the Rhine still standing.: 263–264 The Germans had wired the bridge with about 2,800 kilograms (6,200 lb) of demolitionTarzan Triumphs (700 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tarzan Triumphs is a 1943 adventure film in which Tarzan fights the Germans during World War II. Johnny Weissmuller had portrayed the Edgar Rice BurroughsBattle of Remagen (22,440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
see one of the last bridges across the Rhine still standing.: 263–264 The Germans had wired the bridge with about 2,800 kilograms (6,200 lb) of demolitionActions of St Eloi Craters (6,983 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
April found that the Germans were in crater 4. On 16 April, the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) photographed the area, showing the Germans in craters 2, 3, 4Le Hardi-class destroyer (3,532 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
where Le Hardi played a minor role in the Battle of Dakar in September. The Germans captured two ships that were still under construction and attempted toOperation Uranus (5,834 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
especially those which had taken part in the struggle for Stalingrad. The Germans could only count on the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps, which had the strengthFrumka Płotnicka (1,347 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Jewish Combat Organization in Będzin staged an uprising against the Germans (as in nearby Sosnowiec). The Będzin-Sosnowiec ghetto uprising lastedMomčilo Đujić (7,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Case White campaign against the Partisans but this was blocked by the Germans. In August, the Dinara Division suffered significantly at the hands ofHero City (Soviet Union) (3,489 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
counter-attacked until the very last minute. The Germans deployed tanks, tear gas and flame throwers. After the Germans had taken most of the ruined fortificationsWorld War II in Yugoslavia (12,900 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Additionally, much of the population refused to fight, instead welcoming the Germans as liberators from government oppression. As this meant that each individualBattle of Transylvania (6,712 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Sunkel. Its 187th Regiment was deployed to the area on 5 September. The Germans and Austrians began advancing on 14 September, and on the 18th they tookParis in World War II (9,558 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1940, when the Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. The French government departed Paris on June 10th, and the Germans occupiedClose air support (7,921 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
single-seater planes, the Germans preferred the use of heavier two-seaters with an additional machine gunner in the aft cockpit. The Germans adopted the powerfulJewish resistance in German-occupied Europe (5,643 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
took up arms and rebelled against the Nazis after it became clear that the Germans were deporting remaining Ghetto inhabitants to the Treblinka exterminationResistance in the German-occupied Channel Islands (6,279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
islands, evacuating the British garrisons and leaving them undefended. The Germans were not informed, however, and on 28 June German Heinkel bombers fromGerman occupation of Estonia during World War II (4,694 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
first seen by most Estonians as liberators from Soviet terror, since the Germans arrived only a week after the mass deportation of tens of thousands ofStepan Bandera (12,852 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
German-captured Lviv. The proclamation pledged to work with Nazi Germany. The Germans disapproved of the proclamation, and for his refusal to rescind the decreeLeningrad–Novgorod offensive (1,765 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
defend the territory it gained in pursuit of the German XVI Army Corps. The Germans had suffered nearly 72,000 casualties, lost 85 artillery pieces ranging21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (6,301 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of the division arrested 281 Jews in Pristina and handed them over to the Germans, who transported them to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, whereLatvian anti-Nazi resistance movement 1941–1945 (1,086 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
“Pērkonkrusts” was allied with the Germans in the first months after the invasion, however, when repressed by the Germans it again started underground resistanceNamsos campaign (3,390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
operation would have been pointless if the Narvik route remained open. The Germans rightly suspected that the British were planning to mine the NorwegianGermany at the 1896 Summer Olympics (464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Germany competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The Germans were the third most successful nation in terms of both gold medals (6 plusThe Holocaust in France (3,866 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
not contain any overtly anti-Jewish clauses, but it did indicate that the Germans intended the racial order existent in Germany since 1935 to spread to1917 French Army mutinies (2,883 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
France, General Robert Nivelle, had promised a decisive victory over the Germans in 48 hours; morale in French armies rose to a great height and the shockBattle of Mont Sorrel (2,722 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
end of February 1916. Short of resources due to the Battle of Verdun, the Germans could only mount local operations to divert British forces from the SommeAbwehr (10,519 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
regime. In March 1941, the Germans forced a captured SOE radio operator to transmit messages to Britain in a code that the Germans had obtained. Even thoughUnited States campaigns in World War I (5,737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Germans had reached the outskirts of Château-Thierry on the Marne, less than 40 miles (64 km) East from Paris. In the next few days the Germans soughtAnti-Fascist Military Organisation (150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as well as gathering arms and equipment for the future fight against the Germans. Since February 1943 it carried over many attacks on German authoritiesWorld War I reparations (11,938 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
contemporary historians is that reparations were not as intolerable as the Germans or Keynes had suggested and were within Germany's capacity to pay hadChristmas truce (7,028 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
outside Paris at the First Battle of the Marne in early September 1914. The Germans fell back to the Aisne valley, where they dug in. In the First Battle4.7 cm KPÚV vz. 38 (370 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
appropriated by the Germans after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939 and used under the names 4.7 cm PaK (t) or PaK 38(t). The Germans continuedOperation Spring Awakening (6,435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Axis powers and prevent the Red Army from advancing towards Vienna. The Germans failed in their objectives. The operation, initially planned for 5 MarchBattle of Dinant (3,445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
raiders withdrew having suffered 19 dead and 117 wounded. On 23 August, the Germans attacked Dinant again, under the impression that the town was full ofDeath marches during the Holocaust (2,251 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
before the Soviet Red Army arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp, the Germans marched 56,000 prisoners toward a train station at Wodzisław, 35 milesCrimean campaign (695 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
amphibious operation near the end of 1941 before being taken again by the Germans during Operation Bustard Hunt on 8 May. The Siege of Sevastopol lastedItalian Military Internees (1,614 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Italy and Allied armed forces (September 8, 1943). After disarmament by the Germans, the Italian soldiers and officers were confronted with the choice toThe Heartbroke Kid (877 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
family uses to pay for the bill and give the Germans "Das Boot". Homer gets revenge by chasing out the Germans, and tossing one of them out. Spangler saysCourland Pocket (3,002 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Irbe Strait in the North and the Gulf of Riga in the East behind the Germans. Renamed Army Group Courland on 25 January, the Army Group in the CourlandAgrolândia (581 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with agriculture as its main economic activity. It was colonized by the Germans, who are the main ethnic group. The main access to the municipality isZeebrugge Raid (5,603 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
garrison. The blockships were sunk in the wrong place and after a few days the Germans had opened the canal to submarines at high tide. Lessons were learnedOperation Peppermint (1,415 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Operations United States Army (ETOUSA) to counter the danger that the Germans might disrupt the June 1944 Normandy landings with radioactive poisonsSecond Battle of Artois (19,600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
German offensive of the Second Battle of Ypres (21 April – 25 May), which the Germans ended to reinforce the Artois front. The initial French attack brokeReginald Victor Jones (1,579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and by the extensive use of deception throughout the war to confuse the Germans. Reginald Jones was born in Herne Hill, South London, on 29 SeptemberBattle of Britain (26,441 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
terror bombing on areas of political significance and on civilians. The Germans had rapidly overwhelmed France and the Low Countries in the Battle ofYakov Dzhugashvili (2,473 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Sent to the front, he was imprisoned by the Germans and died at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1943 after his fatherRobert Benoist (2,493 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
supplied them with weapons and equipment. In 1943, Benoist was captured by the Germans in Paris, but escaped and fled to Britain. Returning to France, he ledFrench battleship Provence (2,224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mers-el-Kébir when France surrendered on 22 June 1940. Fearful that the Germans would seize the French Navy, the British Royal Navy attacked the shipsFrench destroyer Fleuret (1938) (1,121 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
French West Africa, only days before the French signed an armistice with the Germans. After the British attack on Dakar in September, she was one of fourPrisoner of war (14,469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Germans, "mainly by starvation ... in less than eight months" of 1941–42, before "the decimation of Soviet POWs ... was stopped" and the Germans "beganSiege of Budapest (4,408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the battlefield. While the emissaries were en route to their camps, the Germans suddenly opened fire, killing Captain I. A. Ostapenko. Lieutenant N.Operation Queen (5,533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
finally reached the Rur and tried to capture its important dams, when the Germans launched their own offensive, dubbed Wacht am Rhein. The ensuing BattleSiege of Budapest (4,408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the battlefield. While the emissaries were en route to their camps, the Germans suddenly opened fire, killing Captain I. A. Ostapenko. Lieutenant N.Battle of Saint-Mihiel (2,992 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mainly by the United States Army in World War I, and the attack caught the Germans in the process of retreating. This meant that their artillery was outCrimean campaign (695 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
amphibious operation near the end of 1941 before being taken again by the Germans during Operation Bustard Hunt on 8 May. The Siege of Sevastopol lastedDutch famine of 1944–1945 (2,751 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Army Air Forces – after an agreement with the occupying Germans that if the Germans did not shoot at the mercy flights, the Allies would not bomb the German110th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union) (3,069 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the 17th Cavalry Corps, the division continued its training. In June, the Germans reached the banks of the Don. The German Army Groups A and B were taskedYakov Dzhugashvili (2,473 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Sent to the front, he was imprisoned by the Germans and died at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1943 after his fatherReginald Victor Jones (1,579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and by the extensive use of deception throughout the war to confuse the Germans. Reginald Jones was born in Herne Hill, South London, on 29 SeptemberAllied invasion of Italy (7,839 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Baytown. He predicted it would be a waste of effort since it assumed the Germans would give battle in Calabria; if they failed to do so, the diversionGerman East Africa (4,296 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
reorganised as a mandate of the League of Nations. Like other colonial powers, the Germans expanded their empire in the Africa Great Lakes region, ostensibly toHistory of Germans in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union (7,166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
strong education among some of the German peoples.[citation needed] The Germans of Russia did not necessarily speak Russian; many spoke German, whileAnti-Fascist Military Organisation (150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as well as gathering arms and equipment for the future fight against the Germans. Since February 1943 it carried over many attacks on German authoritiesSosnowiec (2,847 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Słomka, in Sosnowiec in revenge for Polish defense. Around the same time, the Germans murdered nine Poles in nearby Klimontów (present-day district of Sosnowiec)Operation Michael (10,973 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in France by May 1918, and another million were expected by August. The Germans knew that the only chance of victory was to defeat the Allies beforeTomaszów Mazowiecki (3,240 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
September 7, the Germans entered the town and the Einsatzgruppe III arrived to commit various atrocities against the populace. The Germans then lootedD-Day naval deceptions (1,905 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
operations complemented Operation Titanic, which was intended to confuse the Germans about the D-Day airborne forces. It is unclear whether the operationsCaves of Maastricht (342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
armaments that could be used against the Germans, including a proposed force of 30 tanks that would sortie against the Germans that was timed to attack at theOperation Solstice (1,956 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
offensive but was executed as a limited attack, due to hasty planning by the Germans and it being partially compromised by Soviet military intelligence. IntendedUkrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany (3,923 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
or the irregular partisan units conducting guerrilla warfare against the Germans. Most Ukrainians, especially in western Ukraine, had little to no loyaltyZolochiv, Lviv Oblast (2,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
vicinity was bombed by the Germans, causing panic. In the weeks prior the Germans had parachuted into the area. On 1 July the Germans arrived in the townSyrmian Front (1,003 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Belgrade. After the Yugoslav Partisans and the Red Army expelled the Germans from Belgrade in the Belgrade Offensive, the retreating Wehrmacht and6th Mountain Division (Wehrmacht) (274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
20th Mountain Army along the Arctic coast. It withdrew into Norway when the Germans evacuated Finland in late 1944, and surrendered to the British at theHaavara Agreement (1,944 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
it offered access to both immigrant labour and economic support; for the Germans it facilitated the emigration of German Jews while breaking the anti-NaziOperation Ironside (2,152 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
suggesting to the Germans that the Allies would subsequently land along the Bay of Biscay. It complemented efforts to deceive the Germans into believingLine of communication (340 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
surrender in July 1863 The Battle of France in World War II, in which the Germans cut off the French and British armies in Belgium (although the DunkirkBattle of Broodseinde (8,303 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
were made by the Germans for local withdrawals and planning began for a greater withdrawal, which would entail the abandonment by the Germans of the BelgianPolish culture during World War II (9,290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in view of German military defeats and the approaching Eastern Front. The Germans hoped that a more lenient cultural policy would lessen unrest and weakenInvasion of Yugoslavia (12,975 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the peace treaty with Yugoslavia as an impediment to co-operation with the Germans. On 1 April, Yugoslavia redesignated its Assault Command as the ChetnikLubaczów (1,705 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
bombed by German planes, and five days later, the town was occupied by the Germans. On September 26, however, the Red Army seized Lubaczow (see Molotov–RibbentropTimeline of World War II (1941) (8,674 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Yugoslavia; Hitler is infuriated by the Yugoslav resistance. 8 April: The Germans take Salonika, Greece. 9 April: The Palestinian leader Amin al-HusseiniTwo Thousand Women (999 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
has been shot down, enter the camp and are hidden by the women from the Germans. The film was released in the United States in 1951 in a severely cut-downBattle of the Sea of Azov (1,266 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with full military honours by the Germans. The assault on Rostov began on 17 November, and on 21 November the Germans took Rostov. However, the GermanSiege of Calais (1940) (9,358 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the 10th Panzer Division were mostly costly failures and by evening, the Germans reported that about half their tanks had been knocked out and a thirdParis Commune (21,927 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Thiers from February 1871) and the complete defeat of the French Army by the Germans by March 1871, soldiers of the National Guard seized control of the cityZawiercie (1,597 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
damage. During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, the Germans entered Zawiercie on 4 September 1939. The town was directly annexedComet Line (5,052 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
are usually called "helpers". Seven hundred helpers were arrested by the Germans and 290 were executed or died in prison or concentration camps. The CometAllied siege of La Rochelle (936 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Royan and Saint-Nazaire, became "Atlantic pockets" still occupied by the Germans, which were bypassed by the main thrust of the Allied invasion, as wasVenezuelan crisis of 1902–1903 (4,548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Roosevelt claimed he forced the Germans to back down by sending his own larger fleet to Venezuela under and threatening war if the Germans landed. However, heCase White (8,158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Royalist Chetniks. This phase was cancelled in early February 1943. The Germans aimed to destroy the central command of the Partisan movement, the CentralSaint-Privat-la-Montagne (114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Saint-Privat was the scene of the battle of 18 August 1870 between the Germans under Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia and the French under General FrancoisPanhellenic Liberation Organization (1,821 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ensuing civil war and its remnants turned towards collaboration with the Germans. On 28 October 1940, Italy declared war on Greece, expecting a swiftSieradz (1,814 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
15 September 1939, the Germans carried out the first public execution of seven Poles in Sieradz. In early November 1939, the Germans arrested 62 membersRuhr pocket (2,183 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with the forces of the U.S. First Army joining on 4 April. For 13 days the Germans delayed or resisted the U.S. advance. On 14 April, the First and Ninth210 mm gun M1939 (Br-17) (255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
heavy siege gun used by the Soviet Union during World War II. After the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia in March 1939 they took over the Škoda WorksFrench destroyer Mameluk (987 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
French Morocco only days before the French signed an armistice with the Germans in June. She then helped to escort one of the battleships damaged byPawiak (662 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
During the World War II German occupation of Poland, it was used by the Germans, and in 1944 it was destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising. Pawiak Prison tookBattle of Pozières (3,512 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
July. Believing that Pozières and Thiepval would become untenable for the Germans as the British continued their eastward advance, Haig ordered RawlinsonSyria–Lebanon campaign (4,949 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
behalf of Vichy France, signed the Paris Protocols, an agreement with the Germans which granted Germany access to military facilities in Vichy-controlledMarek Edelman (3,286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
sewer network. The Germans resumed their attack on the ghetto on April 19, 1943, with over 2,000 troops. According to Edelman: "The Germans weren't expectingBattle of Hannut (6,291 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
tanks in armoured warfare history at the time. The primary purpose of the Germans was to tie down the strongest elements of the French First Army and keepLost Battalion (World War I) (4,117 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
The Germans also spread barbed wire for hundreds of miles. At various points, it was higher than a man's head and several, even many, yards deep. TheAxis powers (21,662 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
subordinated to the Germans and assisted them in rounding up opponents and Jews, as well as fighting the French Resistance. The Germans recruited volunteersBattle of Kleisoura Pass (2,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
batteries) of mountain artillery on 10 April, to prepare the defences. When the Germans made their first contact on 13 April, the bulk of the 20th Division hadCharles Atangana (4,487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and the Germans. Atangana helped open posts in such wide-ranging places as Bafia, Abong-Mbang, Mouloudou, Ngaoundéré, Garoua, and Maroua. The Germans largelyBattle of Łódź (1914) (3,435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Russian First, Second, and Fifth Armies, in harsh winter conditions. The Germans redeployed their Ninth Army around Thorn, so as to threaten the RussianMaquis du Mont Mouchet (242 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
fighters during the Second World War that were based at Mont Mouchet. The Germans, having discovered the maquis, made several attacks up until May 1944German bombing of Belgrade (3,836 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
6 April. Three days prior, VVKJ Major Vladimir Kren had defected to the Germans, disclosing the locations of multiple military assets and divulging theSkarżysko-Kamienna (1,627 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
murdered by the Germans during the occupation (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation). The monk who managed to avoid capture by the Germans in 1940,Togoland campaign (4,143 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in the south, the border for 80 mi (130 km) was beyond the east bank. The Germans had made the southern region one of the most developed colonies in AfricaFrench destroyer Panthère (1,324 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
surrender of France a month later, Panthère was reduced to reserve. When the Germans attempted to seize the French fleet there in November 1942, she was oneThe Guns of Navarone (film) (3,175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
sister Maria and her friend Anna, who was once captured and tortured by the Germans before escaping. German soldiers continually dog the mission. The groupQuisling regime (2,880 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
kilometers (85 miles) from Oslo, and was carrying out negotiations with the Germans. The next day, German ambassador Curt Bräuer traveled to Elverum andFirst day on the Somme (17,896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Péronne. North of the Somme in the British area, Fricourt was abandoned by the Germans overnight. Several truces were observed to recover wounded from no man'sDestruction of Warsaw (2,366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Nazi Generalplan Ost. However, by late 1944, with the war clearly lost, the Germans had abandoned their plans of colonizing the East. Thus, the destructionTwo Thousand Women (999 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
has been shot down, enter the camp and are hidden by the women from the Germans. The film was released in the United States in 1951 in a severely cut-downMassacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (16,079 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Germans preferred Ukrainians and filled administrative positions with them. However, a shortage of suitably qualified people forced the Germans toGreco-Italian War (23,138 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
overwhelmed and the Germans advanced rapidly west and south. In Albania, the Greek army made a belated withdrawal to avoid being cut off by the Germans but wasBielski partisans (3,696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
22 June 1941, a Jewish ghetto was established within Novogrudok, as the Germans took over the area and implemented their genocidal policies (see HolocaustLost Battalion (World War I) (4,117 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
The Germans also spread barbed wire for hundreds of miles. At various points, it was higher than a man's head and several, even many, yards deep. TheByelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (6,851 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the puppet government; however, the Germans were also displeased with him and removed him. As a result, the Germans permitted the government less jurisdiction151st Infantry Division "Perugia" (1,265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
left behind and captured by the Germans after fierce fighting by the Germans. Immediately after their capture the Germans executed all officers and non-commissionedBattle of Mill (1,284 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
on the first day of the invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. Although the Germans broke through, they suffered heavy casualties and were delayed in theirOperation Grenade (436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
started at 05:00 on 8 February. However, once the Canadians had advanced, the Germans opened the sluice gates of upstream dams (Rur Dam and Urft Dam). ThisLook to Norway (504 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in Oslo on the day the Germans marched into the city. He witnessed shocked Norwegian civilians standing around watching the Germans march down the paradeNakło nad Notecią (932 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
truce. The Germans then brought reinforcements to the town. In June 1919, American and British journalists visited the town, and the Germans tried toFlight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II (10,469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
them alike. Other Soviets were taken aback by the brutal treatment of the Germans and engaged in their protection. According to the West German SchiederColmar Pocket (5,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
allowed the Germans to hold the Colmar Pocket against an unsuccessful French offensive from 15–22 December 1944. On New Year's Day 1945, the Germans launchedRoyal Hampshire Regiment (8,698 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Horse kept the Germans at bay until dusk, when 'B' Company was overrun. 'C' Company was overrun by German infantry. On 1 March, the Germans attacked againOperation Lüttich (2,831 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
units of the Third United States Army that had advanced into Brittany. The Germans' main force was the XLVII Panzer Corps, with two Heer and one-and-a-halfBattle of Britain Day (12,653 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Luftwaffe had not gained the results desired by Hitler. Frustrated, the Germans turned towards the strategic bombing of cities, an offensive which wasGerman cruiser Deutschland (7,945 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
an armored ship (Panzerschiff) by the Reichsmarine, in February 1940 the Germans reclassified the remaining two ships of this class as heavy cruisersArmistice of 22 June 1940 (1,756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
held the signing in the Compiègne Wagon, the same rail carriage where the Germans had signed the 1918 Armistice. In the last sentence of the preamble,Volga Germans (4,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Russian monarchy gradually eroded their specific rights as time went on. The Germans began to suffer a considerable loss of autonomy. Conscription was eventuallyStalag Luft III (12,056 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
officers. Unable to stop what the prisoners called the "Duty Pilot" system, the Germans allowed it to continue and on one occasion the book was used by KommandantOperation Himmler (1,358 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Germany to give the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany. The Germans then used propaganda reports of the events to justify their invasionOstsiedlung (10,657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
because some of the Germans in the East became foreign citizens when their homes were no longer part of Germany and Austria. The Germans in the East outsideOperation Kutuzov (2,290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
his senior commanders to take an initial defensive posture and allow the Germans to weaken themselves in attacking prepared positions. After this theHill 262 (4,539 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
commanding view of the area, sat astride the only escape route still open to the Germans. Polish forces seized the northern height of the ridge on 19 August andOperations on the Ancre, January–March 1917 (11,716 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
284 prisoners. On 22/23 February, the Germans withdrew another 3 mi (4.8 km) on a 15 mi (24 km) front. The Germans then withdrew from much of Riegel IResistance during World War II (10,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
groups began to be deported and used as Arbeitseinsatz (forced labor for the Germans). Organization was dangerous, so most resistance actions was performedOperation Rösselsprung (1944) (8,521 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
divided by a German–Italian demarcation line, known as the "Vienna Line"; the Germans occupied the north and northeastern parts of the NDH, and the ItaliansSiege of Strasbourg (2,101 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
garrison were National Guard militiamen. Desiring a quick surrender, the Germans began a terror bombardment to destroy the morale of the civilian population55th (West Lancashire) Division (10,617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the desired result, the Germans shifted their effort north to the Ypres sector to strike again. At 04:15 on 9 April, the Germans bombarded the divisionOccupation of the Ruhr (4,264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the French was that the timber quota the Germans defaulted on was based on an assessment of capacity the Germans made themselves and subsequently loweredDöme Sztójay (790 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
took over the country, the Germans gave Horthy a choice between choosing a new prime minister who would cooperate with the Germans or undisguised occupationGerman battleship Bismarck (11,814 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
though the Germans did not see the Swedes. An hour later, the German flotilla encountered the Swedish cruiser HSwMS Gotland; the cruiser shadowed the GermansErich Ludendorff (8,869 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Russian army was about to strike their rear, but Hindenburg held firm. The Germans turned on the second invading army in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes;Battle of Rotterdam (3,886 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
being able to achieve success were rated below the acceptable level, so the Germans devised a new plan. Twelve specially adapted floatplanes—Heinkel He 59Ds—wouldHenri Giraud (2,957 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
academy and served in French North Africa. He was wounded and captured by the Germans during the First World War, but managed to escape from his prisoner-of-warVinza people (565 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
spread Islam to the Vinza. In the late 1800s, spreading hostilities with the Germans began to adversely impact the salt trade. These hostilities were causedCase Black (3,752 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1st Proletarian Division managed to overcome the Germans and take control of this dominant point. The Germans then began to occupy the entire valley of theBelgorod–Kharkov offensive operation (2,917 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Fourth Battle of Kharkov (German: Vierte Schlacht bei Charkow) by the Germans. The operation began in the early hours of 3 August 1943, with the objectiveMount Edith Cavell (708 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mountain was named in 1916 for Edith Cavell, a British nurse executed by the Germans during World War I for having helped Allied soldiers escape from occupiedJean-Paul Sartre (10,521 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
behaviour of the Germans had entrapped too many Parisians into complicity with the occupation, accepting what was unnatural as natural: The Germans did notOccupation of the Ruhr (4,264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the French was that the timber quota the Germans defaulted on was based on an assessment of capacity the Germans made themselves and subsequently loweredBattle of Kiev (1943) (1,611 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Feint attacks and the construction of fake bridges may have fooled the Germans for a short while. Fire support was provided by 7,000 guns and mortarsHaidari concentration camp (1,975 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
on 8 September, Italy surrendered to the Allies, and on 10 September, the Germans took over the camp. The camp was originally built as an army barracksHehe people (3,734 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
adversaries.[citation needed] The Wahehe themselves adopted it only after the Germans and British applied it consistently, but by then the term had acquired55th (West Lancashire) Division (10,617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the desired result, the Germans shifted their effort north to the Ypres sector to strike again. At 04:15 on 9 April, the Germans bombarded the division148th Reserve Division (1,640 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
rapid Allied advance posed a major threat for the Germans, who could not retreat fast enough. The Germans tried to establish a defense line at the RhôneVinza people (565 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
spread Islam to the Vinza. In the late 1800s, spreading hostilities with the Germans began to adversely impact the salt trade. These hostilities were causedRussian battleship Petropavlovsk (1911) (2,584 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
mid-1915. Her role was to defend the mouth of the Gulf of Finland against the Germans, who never tried to enter, so she spent her time training and providingBattle of Anzio (9,106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
beachhead. His artillery units had a clear view of every Allied position. The Germans also stopped the drainage pumps and flooded the reclaimed marsh with345th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) (2,374 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Regiments. This attack was again stalled by artillery and mortar fire. The Germans then used rocket artillery to penetrate to the third defense line, andBattle of the Yser (3,539 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
August, to find the bridge down and Belgian troops on the west bank; the Germans crossed at a ford and forced the Belgians to retire towards Liège. ByHistory of Madeira (4,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
before this the Germans were constructing what is today the "Hospital dos Marmeleiros" (the only building the Germans began to build), the Germans were givenOperation Torch (7,091 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mers-el-Kébir near Oran in June 1940, to prevent French ships being taken by the Germans, which killed almost 1,300 French sailors. An assessment of the sympathiesFokker G.I (2,407 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
overrun by the Germans. The few G.Is that were mustered into service were able to score several victories. Some were captured intact after the Germans had occupiedChristianization of Moravia (782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
evangelizers). Soon Rastislav succeeded in created a church independent of both the Germans and Constantinople, subordinated directly to the See of Rome. New dioceseDun-les-Places (478 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Germans vandalised the village and stole wine and all the food they could find. On 27 June, the village was systematically looted; the Germans tookOrganisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (16,832 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
National Archives. p. 74. ..the OUN turned its hopes toward the Germans. In late 1939 the Germans housed OUN leaders in Krakow, then the capital of the German-occupiedChauci (2,755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
circumstances of the merger are an unsettled issue of scholarly research. The Germans of the region were not strongly hierarchical. This had been noted byBlizna V-2 missile launch site (2,726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
British arrived. In late July 1944, the advance of the Red Army forced the Germans to evacuate the base at Blizna, and launch activities were moved to theSzczuczyn pogrom (757 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
German Gestapo takeover in August 1941 some 600 Jews were killed by the Germans, the remaining Jews placed in a ghetto, and subsequently sent to TreblinkaMorgenthau Plan (10,280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
resources and territories, e.g. by restitution of property looted by the Germans in territories occupied by them; by transfer of German territory andExpulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany (2,724 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
slavery[citation needed] and their further extermination, in order to make room for the Germans re-settled from across Europe. Furthermore, Hitler intended to extensivelyFirst Battle of Dernancourt (5,721 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
battle, the Germans renewed their attempts to advance in the sector, culminating in the Second Battle of Dernancourt on 5 April, when the Germans were defeatedRomanian Campaign (1917) (2,338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
posts captured from the Germans the officers' morning coffee was still warm. The Romanian artillery was so effective the Germans suspected it was commandedHaguenau (2,178 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
December the Germans withdrew under the cover of darkness, leaving the town proper largely under American control. Before they withdrew, the Germans demolishedPiaseczno (1,598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the town (see also Nazi crimes against the Polish nation). Afterwards, the Germans terrorized the population, and Poles over the age of 14 were subjectedBattle of Kiev (1941) (14,368 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
on the same day to destroy the enemy spearhead, stop the advance of the Germans towards Kiev and maintain communication between these two armies. HoweverBattle of the Bzura (2,350 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
began as a Polish counter-offensive, which gained initial success, but the Germans outflanked the Polish forces with a concentrated counter-attack. ThatFrench destroyer Casque (1938) (928 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
mid-1940 only days before the French signed an armistice with the Germans. When the Germans occupied Vichy France after the Allies landed in French NorthOperation Mars (2,126 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
especially artillery so critical for reducing the German strongpoints. The Germans reacted by shifting units within the salient against the points of theRussian battleship Poltava (1911) (1,543 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
mid-1915. Her role was to defend the mouth of the Gulf of Finland against the Germans, who never tried to enter, so she spent her time training and providingHungarian Defence Forces (5,491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1944, the Germans launched Operation Panzerfaust and forced Horthy to abdicate. Pro-Nazi Ferenc Szálasi was made prime minister by the Germans. On 28Djedeida Airfield (330 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
withdraw due to lack of infantry support. It continued operations under the Germans until seized by the American II Corps on 8 May 1943. After being repairedThe Holocaust in Poland (9,199 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to eliminate any possible resistance. Already during the hostilities, the Germans carried out pogroms against the Jewish population, for example, 600 peoplePuppet state (6,505 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
defeat and the territorial cessions of the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Germans established a Lithuanian kingdom. However it became an independent republic50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division (13,789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
which began when the Germans attacked as the 6th D.L.I. was starting off. In spite of this the 6th D.L.I. reached Geel, expelling the Germans house by houseGreat Eastern Railway War Memorial (345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
officer of the Great Eastern Railway's marine service who was executed by the Germans in 1916 after being convicted at a court martial as a franc-tireur. GreatLiberation of Finnmark (2,533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Finland on 4 September 1944, the Petsamo region, still largely occupied by the Germans, was ceded to the Soviet Union, and the Finnish government agreed toMassacres in Piaśnica (2,116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was the largest site of killings of Polish civilians in Pomerania by the Germans, and for this reason, is sometimes referred to as the "second" or "Pomeranian"Second Battle of Orléans (208 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
place on December 3 and 4, 1870 and was part of the Loire Campaign. The Germans recaptured Orléans, which had been retaken by the French on NovemberList of terms used for Germans (4,686 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
There are many terms for the Germans. In English the demonym, or noun, is German. During the early Renaissance, "German" implied that the person spokeBattle of the Menin Road Ridge (9,981 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
area, fire was opened on the Germans after half an hour, which forced the Germans to deploy into open order. When the Germans were 150 yd (140 m) fromHMS Seal (N37) (3,100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
captured subs. She was the only submarine the Germans captured at sea during World War II. Her capture allowed the Germans to correct a critical fault in theirJezdimir Dangić (6,583 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the occupiers. Afterwards, they became largely inactive in fighting the Germans, choosing instead to avoid confrontation. In December, Chetniks underBuri tribe (417 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Life of Marcus Aurelius). The latter became a tougher adversary than the Germans had suspected and many tribes, including the Buri, made a separate peaceConvoys in World War I (3,294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
convoy system defeated the German submarine campaign." From June 1917 on, the Germans were unable to meet their set objective of sinking 600,000 long tons50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division (13,789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
which began when the Germans attacked as the 6th D.L.I. was starting off. In spite of this the 6th D.L.I. reached Geel, expelling the Germans house by houseDaugavpils Ghetto (6,453 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
29, 1941, at the order of Robert Blūzmanis, who had been appointed by the Germans as the police chief of the Latvian police in Daugavpils, large signsMassacres in Piaśnica (2,116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was the largest site of killings of Polish civilians in Pomerania by the Germans, and for this reason, is sometimes referred to as the "second" or "Pomeranian"Hungarian Defence Forces (5,491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1944, the Germans launched Operation Panzerfaust and forced Horthy to abdicate. Pro-Nazi Ferenc Szálasi was made prime minister by the Germans. On 28List of terms used for Germans (4,686 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
There are many terms for the Germans. In English the demonym, or noun, is German. During the early Renaissance, "German" implied that the person spokeBuri tribe (417 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Life of Marcus Aurelius). The latter became a tougher adversary than the Germans had suspected and many tribes, including the Buri, made a separate peacePećanac Chetniks (2,169 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
traitor, and the Germans concluded that his detachments were inefficient, unreliable, and of little military value to them. The Germans and the puppetOperation Tarbrush (457 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
heavily guarded. His expedition found that in the water near the coast, the Germans had equipped Teller mines on stakes. When the tide was in, the minesAnti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia (2,644 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
People's Army together with the Red Army reentered occupied Yugoslavia. The Germans were driven off from Vardar Macedonia in late November by the Bulgarian21st Army Group (2,339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
around Caen at the eastern end of the lodgement. These operations left the Germans unable to prevent the American breakout at the western end of the NormandyKorba Airfield (308 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
scrounged any parts that they could to keep their aircraft flying against the Germans. Later, the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force (ICBAF or ACI) was formedRescue of the Jews of Zakynthos (533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
or to Athens. On 9 September 1943, six days after Italy's surrender, the Germans took possession of the island. Unlike the Jewish communities in largerElyesa Bazna (6,343 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to the Germans from the eastern Mediterranean until Overlord is launched." The information about the Normandy Invasion was not known by the Germans untilŁódź Ghetto (6,023 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
beginning in early 1942, and in spite of a stark reversal of fortune, the Germans persisted in eradicating the ghetto: they transported the remaining populationConvoys in World War I (3,294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
convoy system defeated the German submarine campaign." From June 1917 on, the Germans were unable to meet their set objective of sinking 600,000 long tonsOstrołęka (2,863 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
On 5–6 April 1940, the Germans carried out further mass arrests of around 200 Poles in Ostrołęka and nearby villages. The Germans also operated a forcedDeportations from the German-occupied Channel Islands (4,133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
authorities: German officials tried several diplomatic routes to get the Germans in Persia released, trading them for British trapped in Sweden and threateningOvambo Uprising (2,120 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Augusto Alves Roçadas that the Germans were going to attack Angola. This would turn to be both incorrect and correct as the Germans would come back to AngolaDunkirk evacuation (7,108 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
bridgeheads on the Meuse River and rapidly drive to the English Channel. The Germans would thus cut off the Allied armies in Belgium. This part of the planJerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz (846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
saboteur in the Greek Resistance during World War II and was executed by the Germans. Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz was born in Warsaw on 14 December 1911, as theOperation Charnwood (7,629 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
for the Allies. The Germans retired from north of the Orne River but did not stop sending formations to the American front. The Germans established anotherGermans of Serbia (1,466 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Germans of Serbia (Serbian: Nemci u Srbiji/Немци у Србији, German: Serbiendeutsche) are an ethnic minority of Serbia which numbers 4,064 people accordingTanks in the German Army (14,670 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1915, and deployed tanks in battle from 1916 and 1917 respectively. The Germans, on the other hand, were slower to develop tanks, concentrating on anti-tankMilitary history of France during World War II (21,706 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1940, the German forces defeated the French in the Battle of France. The Germans occupied the north and west of French territory and a collaborationistThelepte Airfield (295 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a few miles of the airfield. However American counter-attacks drove the Germans east and the airfield was re-manned on 1 March, later hosting A-20 HavocsBattle of Caporetto (3,017 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
tactics developed in part by Oskar von Hutier. The use of poison gas by the Germans also played a key role in the collapse of the Italian Second Army. The305 mm howitzer M1939 (Br-18) (256 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
superheavy siege howitzer used by the Soviet Union during World War II. After the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia in March 1939 they took over the Škoda WorksReformed Christian Church in Serbia (366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
German Calvinist congregations; the Germans arrived in this region in the 18th century. After World War II, the Germans were forced to leave the countryGdynia (6,634 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
On 14 September 1939, the Germans captured the entire city, and then occupied it until 1945. On 15–16 September, the Germans carried out further massBiałystok Ghetto (2,577 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
survival. Its main obligation was to provide quotas of laborers for the Germans. Within a brief period of time the ghetto grew to over 50,000 JewishSMS Strassburg (5,024 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Italian Navy, captured and raised by the Germans, and sunk by Allied bombers in October 1943. The Germans raised the ship again, which was sunk a secondBattle of Flers–Courcelette (21,006 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
would continue to absorb German and Austro-Hungarian reserves and that the Germans had abandoned the Battle of Verdun, General Sir Douglas Haig, commanderBattle of Sarantaporos (1943) (906 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Operation Animals, was one of the most successful operations against the Germans during the Axis occupation of Greece. In preparation for the Allied landingsBattle of Hamel (6,307 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
officers. In early 1918, as a result of the capitulation of Russia, the Germans began concentrating the bulk of their forces on the Western Front. OverKingdom of Bohemia (5,891 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
also widely used as the language of administration in many towns after the Germans immigrated and populated some areas of the country in the 13th century20th (Light) Division (13,879 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Division. In the early hours of 13 September a mine was exploded by the Germans under a small salient held by 7th S.L.I. The crater was occupied by othersSS Brussels (763 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by Germany in 1916 and her captain, Charles Fryatt was executed after the Germans discovered his attempted ramming. Brussels was renamed Brugge and usedFall of the Fascist regime in Italy (8,402 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
General Vittorio Ambrosio, who was devoted to the King and hostile to the Germans, became the new Chief of the General Staff. Ambrosio was persuaded thatHistory of Nauru (3,327 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
negotiations ended the fighting. In the 1900s, phosphate mining started, and the Germans built some modern facilities on the island. German control ended at theRadom Ghetto (1,666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
months of 1942 the Germans carried out several actions, arresting or summarily executing various leaders of the Jewish community. The Germans began to liquidateSchwerer Gustav (2,173 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
crushed before it could be prepared to fire. Gustav was destroyed by the Germans near the end of the war in 1945 to avoid capture by the Soviet Red ArmyBattle of the Boar's Head (1,533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
First and Second armies conducted 310 raids against the Germans up to November 1916, harassing the Germans opposite to give novice divisions experience ofReichsgau Wartheland (2,689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Polish children kidnapped by the Germans, and facilitated escapes of Allied prisoners of war from German POW camps. The Germans cracked down on the resistanceNyamwezi people (3,754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
strong wooden stockades, often in high inaccessible rocky places. When the Germans finally imposed peace, the population did not immediately disperse, butGudovac massacre (5,428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
following day, relatives of one of the victims informed the Germans of what had transpired. The Germans ordered a partial exhumation of the mass grave, andSoap made from human corpses (4,351 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
from human body fat. During World War I the British press claimed that the Germans operated a corpse factory in which they made glycerine and soap fromDamasta sabotage (1,649 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the village of Damasta (Greek: Δαμάστα) and was aimed at preventing the Germans assaulting the village of Anogeia. As part of a coordinated attack withV-2 rocket (11,240 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Union—raced to seize major German manufacturing facilities, procure the Germans' missile technology, and capture the V-2s' launching sites. Von BraunAgrigento Airfield (292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
scrounged any parts that they could to keep their aircraft flying against the Germans. Later, the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force (ICBAF or ACI) was formedColombia during World War II (3,516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
submarine U-172. Shortly thereafter, the Colombians abandoned ship, and the Germans boarded to sink the little schooner with hand grenades. Six of the Colombians