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Sergey Mironov wearing a pin with a "Z" symbol A "Z" war monument in Yekaterinburg with a guard of honor. Since mid-March 2022, the "Z" began to be used by the Russian government as a pro-war propaganda motif, [9] [41] [42] and has been appropriated by pro-Putin civilians as a symbol of support for Russia's invasion.
Plan Z, a plan for re-equipment and expansion of the Nazi German Navy ordered by Adolf Hitler in 1939; Operation Z, the Japanese code name for the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor in its planning stages; Operation Z (1944), the initial Japanese plan for the defense of the Marianas Islands in WWII; Z-4 Plan, a proposal to settle the Croatian War of ...
Many symbols used by the Nazis have further been appropriated by neo-Nazi groups, including a number of runes; the so-called Black Sun, derived from a mosaic floor in Himmler's remodel of Wewelsburg; and the Celtic cross, originally a symbol used to represent pre-Christian and Christian European groups such as the Irish. [citation needed]
Dolchstoßlegende (Stab-in-the-Back Theory) – theory that the German military defeat during the First World War was the result of political intrigue by the Social Democrats, pacifist traitors, Communists and Jews back in Germany at the expense of the brave soldiers, airman, and sailors fighting abroad. It formed the backbone of Hitler's ...
Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two. Annapolis: US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2. Rössler, Eberhard (1981). The U-boat: The Evolution and Technical History of German Submarines. Translated by Harold Erenberg. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-304-36120-8. Showell, Jak Mallmann (1999).
Production number Class Tactical numbering First flight Remarks Fate Image LZ 26: N: Z XII 14 December 1914 Z XII made 11 attacks in northern France and at the eastern front, dropping 20,000 kg (44,000 lb) of bombs; by the summer of 1915 Z 12 had dropped around 9,000 kg (20,000 lb) of bombs on the Warsaw to Petrograd trunk railway line between the stations at Malkina and Białystok.
The Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation), [4] was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. [5]
German propagandists wanted to present the war not as a purely German concern, but as a multi-national crusade against the so-called Jewish Bolshevism. [48] Hence, the Wehrmacht and the SS began to seek out recruits from occupied and neutral countries across Europe: the Germanic populations of the Netherlands and Norway were recruited largely ...