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The 5th Army (German: 5. Armee / Armeeoberkommando 5 / A.O.K. 5) was a field army of the Imperial German Army during World War I. It was formed on mobilization in August 1914 seemingly from the VII Army Inspection. The army was disbanded in 1919 during demobilization after the war. [1]
This involved towing a Kässbohrer amphibious trailer (capable of transporting 10-20 tons of freight) behind the LWS. [ 3 ] The Landwasserschlepper was demonstrated to General Franz Halder on 2 August 1940 by the Reinhardt Trials Staff on the island of Sylt and, though he was critical of its high silhouette on land, he recognized the overall ...
On the battlefield, Assault Battalion No. 5 participated in most major German operations of the Western Front of World War I, in addition to spending a significant amount of time training other units for assault roles. The unit's successes and contributions to German military tactics led to its commendation by Kaiser Wilhelm. [2] [3]
The 5th Mountain Division (German: 5. Gebirgs-Division) was a formation of the German Wehrmacht during World War II. It was established in the Wehrkreis XVIII in October 1940, out of units taken from the 1st Mountain Division and the 10th Infantry Division. The unit surrendered to the U.S. Army near Turin in May 1945.
The Meillerwagen (English: Meiller vehicle) was a German World War II trailer used to transport a V-2 rocket from the 'transloading point' [1] [a] of the Technical Troop Area to the launching point, to erect the missile on the Brennstand (English: firing stand), [b] and to act as the service gantry for fuelling and launch preparation.
The narrator notes that this is not the only time that Germany has unleashed war on the world, stating that while its generation fought the "Nazis", its fathers fought the "Huns" (pejorative term for Germany during World War I), and its grandfathers remember the "Prussians". The narrator states that it was all part of the same German lust for ...
Because of the impact of the Second World War, and restrictions imposed on the country by the Allied Powers, film production between 1945 and 1948 was limited and did not pick up really until after 1950. See also Category:West German films. List of German films of 1945–1959; List of German films of the 1960s; List of German films of the 1970s
Carlo Schmid (1896–1979), politician who had vast influence on the content of the German Basic Law after World War II; Gerhard Schröder (1910–1989), foreign minister, minister of the Interior (CDU) Kurt Schumacher (1895–1952), leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the early years of the FRG; Baron Heinrich vom Stein (1757 ...