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The Krieg surname comes from the Middle High German word "krieger", meaning "warrior" or "soldier"; However, some instances of this name are no doubt derived from the word "kriege", which means "obstinate" or "cantankerous".
During World War II, three tonnage wars were fought. The largest and best known of them was Nazi Germany's U-boat campaign, aimed mainly against the United Kingdom. Less well-known campaigns were waged by Allied forces in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters, neither of them deliberately planned as a tonnage war in the way that German U-boat campaign was, but both having that effect— and ...
Partition of the Ottoman Empire, dissolution of Austria-Hungary, transfer of German colonies and territories to other countries; Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East, such as Poland, Yugoslavia, Weimar Germany, Soviet Russia and Soviet Union, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Hejaz, and Yemen
The Sportpalast speech (German: Sportpalastrede) or Total War speech was a speech delivered by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large, carefully selected audience on 18 February 1943, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies.
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was serious about negotiating a settlement to end the war in Ukraine as high-level talks began in Saudi Arabia, and that Russia ...
Krieghammer was born in Landshut; he attended the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt, enlisted as a lieutenant in the 5th Imperial and Royal Dragoons regiment in 1849 and then fought on the Austrian side in the Hungarian Revolution.
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The video features Otis, a 4-year-old Labrador from Leeds, England, displaying his discontent in a manner strikingly similar to a human toddler’s tantrum. As the clip begins, Otis comfortably ...