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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 ...
Germans to the Front: West German Rearmament in the Adenauer Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-4539-6. Mitchell, Maria (2012). The Origins of Christian Democracy: Politics and Confession in Modern Germany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-11841-0. Schwarz, Hans-Peter (1995).
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.
The Four Year Plan was a series of economic measures initiated by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany in 1936. Hitler placed Hermann Göring in charge of these measures, making him a Reich Plenipotentiary (Reichsbevollmächtigter) whose jurisdiction cut across the responsibilities of various cabinet ministries, including those of the Minister of Economics, the Defense Minister and the Minister of ...
One of the leaders of the conservative widerstand movement in Nazi Germany Carl Friedrich Goerdeler ( German: [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɡœʁdəlɐ] ⓘ ; 31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a German conservative politician, monarchist , executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime .
He won the World Cup both as a player and coach and became one of Germany’s most beloved personalities with his easygoing charm. Jan. 7. Joyce Randolph, 99. A veteran stage and television actor whose role as the savvy Trixie Norton on “The Honeymooners” provided the perfect foil to her dimwitted TV husband. Jan. 13. Jack Burke Jr., 100 ...
West Germany joins NATO: Walter Hallstein (left) and Konrad Adenauer (centre) at the NATO Conference in Paris in 1954. West German rearmament (German: Wiederbewaffnung) began in the decades after World War II. Fears of another rise of German militarism caused the new military to operate within an alliance framework, under NATO command. [1]