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Employment numbers are including all subsidiaries as long as the parent company is the majority shareholder, that is, holds more than 50 percent of the stock. An exception is Telefunken , which is included in the list as it was a joint venture of Siemens and Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft which each company holding 50 percent of the ...
During the World War II, the Zeiss company employed thousands of forced labourers, for example at the main site in Jena and in the various production sites and associated companies. [36] [37] (quoted from German Wikipedia: de:Carl Zeiss (Unternehmen)).
The designation "Light" (leichte in German) had various meanings in the German Army of World War II. There were a series of 5 Light divisions; the first four were pre-war mechanized formations organized for use as mechanized cavalry, and the fifth was an ad hoc collection of mechanized elements rushed to Africa to help the Italians and ...
SS-Sturm ("SS-Company"): The Sturm was the company-level formation of the General-SS and the most typical in which an average SS member would associate. Each Sturmbann had 3 to 5 of them. [11] Company commanders usually rated a rank between Untersturmführer and Hauptsturmführer. SS-Trupp ("SS-Troop"): SS-Troops were platoon-sized formations.
Organisation Todt (OT; [ʔɔʁɡanizaˈtsi̯oːn toːt]) was a civil and military engineering organisation in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, named for its founder, Fritz Todt, an engineer and senior member of the Nazi Party.
German name English name Description Date founded Ahnenerbe: Ancestral Heritage: A think tank to research the history of the Aryan race; see also List of Ahnenerbe institutes: 1935 Amerikadeutscher Bund: German American Bund: An American Nazi organization Anti-Komintern: Anti-Comintern: An agency for anti-Soviet propaganda 1933 Bund Deutscher ...
This category includes articles about the organisation and unit histories of all German divisions during the Second World War that performed in combat in the role of infantry. For Mechanized infantry use the category Panzergrenadier divisions of Germany during World War II.
Between 1933 and 1945, the organization of the Luftwaffe underwent several changes. Originally, the German military high command, for their air warfare forces, decided to use an organizational structure similar to the army and navy, treating the aviation branch as a strategic weapon of war.