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Canada played very little role in the postwar occupation of Germany. When asked by Britain to provide transport planes and air crews for the Berlin Blockade of 1948, Canada refused. However, under the enthusiastic leadership of Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent it did join NATO in 1949, despite opposition from some intellectuals, the far ...
Simulated German soldiers harassing a newspaper carrier during If Day. If Day (French: "Si un jour", "If one day") [1] was a simulated Nazi German invasion and occupation of the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and surrounding areas on 19 February 1942, during the Second World War.
The attack of the II Canadian Corps south of Caen, codenamed "Totalize", began on the night of August 7–8.The plan, prepared by the corps commander, Maj. Gen. Guy Simonds, envisaged that Allied units would penetrate German defensive lines to a depth of 20 km and swiftly seize the hills directly north of the town of Falaise.
A History of West Germany Vol 1: From Shadow to Substance, 1945–1963 (1992) Bessel, Richard. Germany 1945: from war to peace (Simon and Schuster, 2012) Campion, Corey. "Remembering the" Forgotten Zone": Recasting the Image of the Post-1945 French Occupation of Germany." French Politics, Culture & Society 37.3 (2019): 79–94.
Operation Gauntlet was an Allied Combined Operation from 25 August until 3 September 1941, during the Second World War.Canadian, British and the Norwegian armed forces in exile (Utefronten, Outside Front) landed on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, 650 mi (1,050 km) south of the North Pole.
Canada did not declare war on Germany at the outset of the First World War, as it had no authority to do so at the time.Though the Canadian Parliament did debate the matter and an order-in-council was issued proclaiming Canada was at war, the country, being part of the British Empire, entered the war with the United Kingdom in consequence of the latter's declaration of war 4 August 1914.
The Battle of Groningen took place during the penultimate month of World War II in Europe, on 13 to 16 April 1945, [2] in the city of Groningen.The 2nd Canadian Division attacked Groningen (though the whole division was never in combat at any given time), defended by 7,000 German soldiers and Dutch and Belgian SS troops.
Canada had declared war on Nazi Germany shortly after the Second World War began in early September 1939 but the United States remained neutral. By mid-1940, the situation in Europe had grown dire; Germany's military successes had led to the occupation of most of Europe, and most importantly, France, which surrendered in June 1940.