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The 4th Army took part in Operation Barbarossa in 1941 as part of Fedor von Bock's Army Group Center and took part in the Battle of Minsk and the Battle of Smolensk.In the aftermath of the German failure in the Battle of Moscow, Fedor von Bock was relieved of his command of Army Group Center on 18 December.
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
A History of West Germany Vol 1: From Shadow to Substance, 1945–1963 (1992) Bessel, Richard. Germany 1945: from war to peace (Simon and Schuster, 2012) Campion, Corey. "Remembering the" Forgotten Zone": Recasting the Image of the Post-1945 French Occupation of Germany." French Politics, Culture & Society 37.3 (2019): 79–94.
The South Seas Mandate were territories granted to Japan in 1919 in the peace agreements of World War I, that designated to Japan the German South Pacific islands. Japan received these as a reward by the Allies of World War I, when Japan was then allied against Germany. Japanese officers training young Indonesian recruits, c. 1945
The black-white-red tricolour remained the flag of Germany until the end of the German Empire in 1918, in the final days of World War I. A visually near-identical flag was used as the national flag of the Republic of Upper Volta , adopted upon the country's independence in 1958 and used until 1984, when the nation was overthrown and re ...
ISO 3166-1 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country code) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.
Both Germanies were admitted as full members of the United Nations (UN) on 18 September 1973. The two countries eventually merged on 3 October 1990, signifying an end of the Cold War era. Germany is the fourth largest contributor to the UN budget. Germany contributes 6.09 percent of this budget, or approximately 176 million US dollars. [1]
The Potsdam agreement stipulated that Germany should eventually be reconstructed on a peaceful and democratic basis. [4] In 1946, the areas occupied by the Western allies held regional and state elections. This process of democratic development culminated in the 1949 West German federal election held by the newly formed Federal Republic of ...