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The common names Schmidt and Schmitz lead in the central German-speaking and eastern Low German-speaking areas. Meyer is particularly common in the Low German-speaking regions, especially in Lower Saxony (where it is more common than Müller). Bauer leads in eastern Upper German-speaking Bavaria. Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and ...
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A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having ...
The following is a list of notable people from A to E (last name) who were at some point a follower of the ideology of Nazism or affiliated with the Nazi Party. This is not meant to be a list of every person who was ever a member of the Nazi Party, some entries can be found elsewhere on the encyclopedia.
List of Nazis (A–E): from Gustav Abb to Hanns Heinz Ewers (~ 247 names) List of Nazis (F–K): from Arnold Fanck to Kurt Küttner (~ 268 names) List of Nazis (L–R): from Bodo Lafferentz to Bernhard Rust (~ 232 names) List of Nazis (S–Z): from Ernst Sagebiel to Fritz Zweigelt (~ 259 names)
Greg Boyington, World War II U.S. Marine Corps fighter ace [89] Paul Gunn, World War II U.S. Army Air Force bomber pilot "Pappa Dönitz" – Karl Dönitz, German admiral "Pat" – J. Loy Maloney, U.S. submarine commander [4] "Patton of Asia – Xue Yue, Chinese Nationalist military general, nicknamed by Claire Lee Chennault of the Flying Tigers ...
Pages in category "German military personnel of World War II" The following 194 pages are in this category, out of 194 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In this case, the foreigners may choose to adopt German forms of their first and last names, or adopt new first names if their old first names cannot be adapted into German. Changing a name that is too complicated (too long or difficult spelling because of origin), too common (like Müller or Schmidt), or causes ridicule (which can be because ...