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Imperial German plans for the invasion of the United States were ordered by staff officers from 1897 to 1903 as training exercises in planning for war. The hypothetical operation was supposed to force the US to bargain from a weak position and to sever its growing economic and political connections in the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean, and South America so that German influence could increase ...
Operation Amanullah (German plans to instigate a pro-Axis Pashtun and Turkic insurrection in Central Asia by the Abwher in Afghanistan against Soviet and British sphere of influence, then German invasion of Afghanistan, through Soviet occupied territory, to form an Afghan puppet state headed by Amanullah Khan with a main goal to invade British ...
The exact population of German POWs in World War I is difficult to ascertain because they were housed in the same facilities used for German-American internment, but there were known to be 406 German POWs at Fort Douglas and 1,373 at Fort McPherson. [5] [6] The prisoners built furniture and worked on local roads.
The preliminary plan was organized mainly by Pastor Stephan; his attorney, Adolph Marbach; the secretary, Gustav Jaeckel; H. F. Fischer, a merchant in Dresden who was also Stephan's right-hand man; and Dr. Carl Vehse, the curator of the Saxon State Archive. Financial arrangements were worked out, the planning committee adopted a list of ...
On April 16, 1861, the first orders were issued to form Indiana's first regiments and establish Indianapolis as a gathering point for the state's volunteer soldiers. [72] [73] Within a week, more than 12,000 recruits from Indiana had signed up to fight for the Union, nearly three times as many needed to meet the state's initial quota. [74]
It was also known as Indiana's "1st German" regiment because its members were mainly of German descent. Organized at Indianapolis, the regiment's first recruits mustered into service on August 24, 1861. From 1861 to 1865, the 32nd Indiana was attached to the first Army of the Ohio and the Army of the Cumberland, where it served in the Western ...
The Kriegsmarine is given the first priority on the allotment of German economic resources. This is the first and only time the Kriegsmarine is given the first priority in the history of the Third Reich. March 14 The pro-German Slovak Republic is created. March 15 Germany occupies and annexes Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia in violation of the ...
The first Indiana State Fair is held on October 19–25, on the grounds of what becomes known as Military Park, west of downtown Indianapolis. [112] [120] Indiana and Illinois Central Railway is established. [141] The First German Reformed Church of Indianapolis congregation is organized. Their first church is dedicated on June 24. [142] 1853