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German cavalry parade past the Royal Palace in Brussels shortly after the invasion, May 1940. The German occupation of Belgium (French: Occupation allemande, Dutch: Duitse bezetting) during World War II began on 28 May 1940, when the Belgian army surrendered to German forces, and lasted until Belgium's liberation by the Western Allies between September 1944 and February 1945.
SSEC control desk. The IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) was an electromechanical computer built by IBM.Its design was started in late 1944 and it operated from January 1948 to August 1952.
The official Chinese government (communist) statistic for China's civilian and military casualties in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937–1945 is 20 million dead and 15 million wounded. [10] Chinese scholar Bianxiu Yue has published a study of China's population losses in the Second Sino-Japanese War. He put total Chinese losses at 20.6 ...
Britain, Ireland and the Second World War. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2327-3. Wragg, David (2007). Sink the French: The French Navy After the Fall of France 1940. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-84415-522-4. Wylie, Neville, ed. (2002). European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War ...
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war .
The use and abuse of Paris in the visitations of German forces during the Second World War led to a backlash; the intensive prostitution during the occupation made way for the Loi de Marthe Richard in 1946, which closed the bordellos and reduced raunchy stage shows to mere dancing events.
En 1888, l'Allemagne impériale prit contrôle de l'île. À la fin de la Première Guerre Mondiale, le Traité de Versailles dépouilla l'Allemagne de ses colonies. La Ligue des Nations, créée par le traité, conféra un mandat à la Grande-Bretagne pour administrer le territoire sous tutelle.
The eleven volumes of the ADSS. Actes et Documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (French for Acts and Documents of the Holy See related to the Second World War), often abbreviated Actes or ADSS, is an eleven-volume collection of documents from the Vatican historical archives, related to the papacy of Pope Pius XII during World War II.