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The razing of Friesoythe was the destruction of the town of Friesoythe in Lower Saxony on 14 April 1945, during the Western Allies' invasion of Germany towards the end of World War II in Europe. The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division attacked the German -held town of Friesoythe, and one of its battalions , The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of ...
The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually active in nearly every theatre of war , most combat was centred in Italy , [ 1 ] Northwestern Europe, [ 2 ] and the North Atlantic.
German Canadians (German: Deutschkanadier or Deutsch-Kanadier, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃkaˌnaːdi̯ɐ]) are Canadian citizens of German ancestry or Germans who emigrated to and reside in Canada. According to the 2016 census , there are 3,322,405 Canadians with full or partial German ancestry.
There were 40 known prisoner-of-war camps across Canada during World War II, although this number also includes internment camps that held Canadians of German and Japanese descent. [1] Several reliable sources indicate that there were only 25 or 26 camps holding exclusively prisoners from foreign countries, nearly all from Germany. [2] [3] [4]
The Fraser Street area was a point of settlement for the German community, [2] and it was called "Little Germany" from the 1940s through the 1960s. [4] An area of Vancouver along Robson Street received the name "Robsonstrasse" after World War II because it had a number of German restaurants, including delicatessens and pastry shops, established by new German immigrants.
During World War II, the Canadian government established and continued the operations of many internment camps to detain 'enemy aliens' – a term that included Canadian citizens of German, Italian, and Japanese descent who were deemed potential threats to national security. Of these, the legacy of German internment camps in Canada remains ...
The Battle of Groningen took place during the penultimate month of World War II in Europe, on 13 to 16 April 1945, [2] in the city of Groningen.The 2nd Canadian Division attacked Groningen (though the whole division was never in combat at any given time), defended by 7,000 German soldiers and Dutch and Belgian SS troops.
[2] [3] It initially housed German civilians and merchant seamen. [3] In 1940, 44 Italian-Canadians were sent to the camp. [4] In July 1941 the civilian prisoners were transferred to another camp, and guard towers and barbed wire was installed for its new prisoners. [5] The camp eventually held a population of 1000 German soldiers and officers ...