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8 May - Oswald Spengler, German historian (born 1880) [10] 22 May - Joseph Koeth, German politician (born 1870) 3 June – Walther Wever, German general, pre-World War II Luftwaffe commander (born 1887) 22 June –Moritz Schlick, German philosopher and physicist (born 1882) 24 July - Georg Michaelis, German politician, former chancellor of ...
The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany was signed by East and West Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union. The latter four renounced all rights they held in Germany. 3 October: German reunification: Five East German states acceded to West Germany. Berlin became the capital of Germany ...
In 2019, the workload covered more than 832 war cemeteries of World War I and World War II and more than 800 war cemeteries/memorial sites of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. [ 1 ] The German War Graves Commission ( Volksbund ) cooperates with and uses the files of German Federal Archives , former Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) in Berlin ...
This is a list of wars involving Germany from 962. It includes the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (DDR, "East Germany") and the present Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, until German reunification in 1990 known as "West Germany").
The wall and the Todesstreifen (death strip) Destruction of the city; Building of the wall " Es geschah an der Mauer" ("It happened at the wall") At the corner of Gartenstraße and Bernauer Straße, a visitor centre was opened. The outdoor area of the memorial west of Berlin Nordbahnhof was transformed into an Erinnerungslandschaft (memorial ...
The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall (= western bulwark), was a German defensive line built during the late 1930s. Started in 1936, opposite the French Maginot Line, it stretched more than 630 km (390 mi) from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of Nazi Germany, to the town of Weil am Rhein on the border with Switzerland.
The Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei) was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany (then called Reichskanzler) in the period of the German Reich from 1878 to 1945. The Chancellery's seat, selected and prepared since 1875, was the former city palace of Adolf Friedrich Count von der Schulenburg (1685–1741) and ...
24 April: Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Treaty of Berlin, which guarantees Germany's neutrality in any war between the Soviet Union and a third country. [75] 12 May: The Luther government falls as a result of its support for a modified imperial flag for use at the Republic's foreign missions. [76]