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The Breitspurbahn (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁaɪtʃpuːɐ̯baːn], translation: broad-gauge railway) was a railway system planned and partly surveyed by the Nazi government of Germany. Its track gauge – the distance between the two running rails – was to be 3000 mm (9 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 8 in), more than twice that of the 1435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ...
Nazi Germany: Production history; ... 1 × 12.8 cm Pak 44, 2 × 37 mm gun, 24 × 20 mm AA gun, 24 × 30 mm AA gun, 4 × 15 mm autocannon, ... The large size and ...
Nazi Germany, [i] officially known as the German Reich [j] and later the Greater German Reich, [k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
German-occupied Europe at the height of the Axis conquests in 1942 Gaue, Reichsgaue and other administrative divisions of Germany proper in January 1944. According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Territory of the Saar Basin was split from Germany for at least 15 years. In 1935, the Saarland rejoined Germany in a lawful way after a plebiscite.
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]
The 20 mm (0.79 in) cannon was not designed to defeat enemy tanks; experiments were made towards replacing it with a heavier gun, which resulted in the Sd.Kfz. 234/2. The Sd.Kfz. 234/2's 50 mm (2.0 in) gun could penetrate and knock out Allied armoured cars and light tanks, but this was not the vehicle's role.
The Schwerbelastungskörper sank 18 cm (7 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) in the three years it was to be used for testing, compared to a maximum allowable settlement of 6 cm (2 + 3 ⁄ 8 in). Using the evidence gathered by these gargantuan devices, it is unlikely the soil could have supported such structures without further preparation. [ 6 ]
The Atlantic Wall (German: Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defences and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom, during World War II.