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[5] German involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Proposed cession of the Balearic or Canary Islands by the Spanish Republic to Nazi Germany in exchange of neutrality in the Spanish Civil War. [5] German plans to colonize Argentine Patagonia. [6] German march into Austria (annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany as Ostmark on 12 March 1938)
The Central Planning Board (German: Zentrale Planung) was a high level governmental production planning agency set up in Nazi Germany, which was active between 1942 and 1945. Its main aim was to make more efficient use of raw materials and manpower in directing the German war economy.
The final operations of the Western Allied armies in Germany between 19 April and 7 May 1945. In the six months following the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944, the American, British, and French armies advanced to the Rhine and seemed poised to strike into the heart of Germany, while the Soviet Red Army, advancing from the east through Poland, reached the Oder.
The Bundeswehr (German: [ˈbʊndəsˌveːɐ̯] ⓘ, literally Federal Defence) is the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany.The Bundeswehr is divided into a military part (armed forces or Streitkräfte) and a civil part, the military part consisting of the German Army, German Navy, German Air Force, Joint Support Service, Joint Medical Service, and Cyber and Information Domain Service.
The book was known by the nickname "Tante Frieda" [1] or "T.F." [2] A modified form is still in use today by the Federal German Army (Deutsches Heer). [citation needed] The approximate equivalent U.S. Army field-manual was FM 100–5, now re-issued as FM 3–0, Operations (with later revisions) and available for download at the U.S. Army ...
As part of the Grow the Army Plan announced 19 December 2007, the Army activated and retained two Infantry Brigades in Germany until 2012 and 2013. [12] On 6 March 2008, it was announced that the 172nd Infantry Brigade would be activated as the first of these brigades, with the other being the 170th Infantry Brigade. [39]
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The 2nd Army headquarters was briefly established in Berlin from Group Command 1 on 26 August 1939 and at the beginning of the Invasion of Poland it was renamed Army Group North on 2 September. [1] The 2nd Army was reestablished on 20 October 1939, with Generaloberst Maximilian von Weichs in command, by renaming the 8th Army, which had been ...