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7 March — World War II: American troops seize the bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross. 19 March — World War II: Adolf Hitler orders that all industries, military installations, machine shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed. 24 March — World War II: Operation ...
U.S.President Franklin D. Roosevelt reported to Congress on the Yalta Conference. He acknowledged his paralytic illness in public when he opened his speech by saying, "I hope that you will pardon me for this unusual posture of sitting down during the presentation of what I want to say, but I know that you will realize that it makes it a lot easier for me not to have to carry about ten pounds ...
"The March" refers to a series of forced marches during the final stages of the Second World War in Europe. From a total of 257,000 western Allied prisoners of war held in German military prison camps , over 80,000 POWs were forced to march westward across Poland , Czechoslovakia , and Germany in extreme winter conditions, over about four ...
1945–46 Oberliga; 1946–47 Oberliga; 1947–48 Oberliga; 1948–49 Oberliga; Aftermath of World War II; Bizone; British occupation zone football championship; Former eastern territories of Germany; German question; History of East Germany; History of Germany; History of Germany (1945–1990) List of administrators of Allied-occupied Germany
The Western Allied invasion of Germany was coordinated by the Western Allies during the final months of hostilities in the European theatre of World War II.In preparation for the Allied invasion of Germany east of the Rhine, a series of offensive operations were designed to seize and capture its east and west banks: Operation Veritable and Operation Grenade in February 1945, and Operation ...
The Committee on Dismemberment of Germany Allied discussions on the dismemberment of Germany into separate states, 29 March 1945. East Berlin, Past and Present Germany Under Reconstruction is a digital collection that provides a varied selection of publications in both English and German from the period immediately following World War II.
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.
The Potsdam Agreement on 2 August 1945 defined the new eastern German border by giving Poland and the Soviet Union all regions of Germany east of the Oder–Neisse line (eastern parts of Pomerania, Neumark, Posen-West Prussia, East-Prussia and most of Silesia) and divided the remaining "Germany as a whole" into four occupation zones, each ...