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Hans Speidel (28 October 1897 – 28 November 1984) was a German military officer who successively served in the armies of the German Empire, Nazi Germany and West Germany. The first general officer of the Bundeswehr , he was a key player in West German rearmament during the Cold War as well as West Germany's integration into NATO and ...
The Heinkel He 111, one of the technologically advanced aircraft that were designed and produced illegally in the 1930s as part of the clandestine German rearmament. German rearmament (Aufrüstung, German pronunciation: [ˈaʊ̯fˌʀʏstʊŋ]) was a policy and practice of rearmament carried out by Germany from 1918 to 1939, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles which required German ...
The arrest of a suspected arms dealer in Jungbusch resulted in a scuffle, during which an officer's sidearm went off and fatally struck another officer. [49] 1993-05-31 N.N. 38 Klausdorf: Schleswig-Holstein During the chase of a suspect, the officer accidentally fired his weapon, striking and killing the suspect. [49] 1993-06-14 G., Walter 46 ...
Faber was sentenced to death in 1947 by a Dutch court for murder. His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment, but in 1952 he escaped from prison and fled to Germany. Several attempts to extradite him were unsuccessful. In 2010, the Dutch government issued a European Arrest Warrant for Faber.
Walther Funk – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, released in 1957 due to poor health. Hermann Göring – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging but committed suicide by ingesting cyanide two hours before the sentence was to be carried out. Rudolf Hess – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, committed suicide in prison in 1987.
BERLIN (Reuters) -Daniela Klette, a member of Germany's notorious Red Army Faction militant group, was arrested in Berlin on Monday after decades on the run from armed robbery and attempted murder ...
During a forbidden protest against West Germany's rearmament organised by leftist and pacifist groups, police opened fire on the crowd, killing a member of the NRW Free German Youth, as well as injuring another two protesters. Police defended their actions, stating that they had been pelted with stones, later also alleging that officers ...
Carl von Ossietzky (German pronunciation: [ˈkaʁl fɔn ʔɔˈsi̯ɛtskiː] ⓘ; 3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938) was a German journalist and pacifist.He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German rearmament.