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Israel vs. Arab League, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthi movement: Levant Lebanese Civil War: 0.12–0.15 million [231] [232] [233] 1975–1990 Multiple sides Levant Greek Civil War: 0.08–0.15 million [234] [235] [90] 1946–1949 Kingdom of Greece vs. Provisional Democratic Government: Balkans and Peloponnese Peninsula Yugoslav Wars
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").
King of Bavaria – Ludwig II of Bavaria; Hamburg – Friedrich Sieveking, First Burgomaster of Hamburg (1861–1862; 1865; and again 1868); Kingdom of Hanover – George (1851–1866)
Many Soviet citizens (Russians and other non-Russian ethnic minorities) joined the Wehrmacht forces as Hiwis (or Hilfswillige). [5] The Ukrainian collaborationist forces were composed of an estimated number of 180,000 volunteers serving with units scattered all over Europe. [6]
The death toll attributable to the flight and expulsions was estimated at 2.2 million by the West German government in 1958 using the population balance method. German records which became public in 1987 have caused some historians in Germany to put the actual total at about 500,000 based on the listing of confirmed deaths.
A few Belgian soldiers escaped via Dunkirk, but the King and most of the army were made prisoners of war. Many remained imprisoned until the end of World War II. [36] Germany occupied Belgium and installed a military government. The occupiers imposed harsh taxes and strict rationing. [37]
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918 (2009) Hooton, Tim. The Luftwaffe: A Complete History 1933–45 (2010) Kelly, Patrick J. Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy (2011) excerpt and text search; Kitchen, Martin. A Military History of Germany: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (1976)
Military clashes in Schleswig/Slesvig. In 1848, Denmark received its first liberal constitution. At the same time, and partly as a consequence, the secessionist movement of the large German majority in Holstein and southern Schleswig was suppressed in the First Schleswig War (1848–51), when the Germans in both territories failed in their attempt to become a united, sovereign and independent ...