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British troops in Germany that stayed there since World War II are expected to leave. 2020 19 February Hanau shootings: 24 February Volkmarsen ramming attack: 22 August Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny arrives in Berlin for medical treatment. 29 August Right-wing rioters attempt to storm the Reichstag building. [47] 3 September
5 September – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (died 1945) 22 September – Franz Peter Wirth, German film director (died 1999) 29 September – Margot Hielscher, German actress and singer (died 2017) 3 October – Hella Brock, German musicologist (died 2020) 7 October – Annemarie Renger, German politician ...
8 May — World War II: V-E Day (Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders) commemorates the end of World War II in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers. 9 May — World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army.
This is a list of wars involving Germany from 962. It includes the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (DDR, "East Germany") and the present Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, until German reunification in 1990 known as "West Germany").
The Soviet zone of Germany in the east, including the Soviet sector of Berlin, became the communist German Democratic Republic ("East Germany") on 7 October of the same year. [ 1 ] on 1 January 1957, the Saar Protectorate (which was separated from Germany on 17 December 1947) became a part the Federal Republic of Germany, [ 5 ] as provided by ...
This is a list of years in Germany. See also the timeline of German history . For only articles about years in Germany that have been written, see Category:Years in Germany .
"Second Thirty Years' War" is a periodization scheme sometimes used to encompass the wars in Europe from 1914 to 1945. [a] Just as the Thirty Years' War of 1618 to 1648 was not a single war but a series of conflicts in varied times and locations, later organized and named by historians into a single period, the Second Thirty Years' War has been seen as a "European Civil War", fought over the ...
In remembrance of the November pogroms against German Jews in 1938, 9 November is a day of remembrance in Germany for the victims of Nazism — in addition to the official national Holocaust memorial day on 27 January and the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp (January 1945). 27 January is also the international ...