* 1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister ( d. 1946 )

* 1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40, 000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.

* 1945 – Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.

The German Workers ' Party was the precedent to the Nazi Party, and Drexler served as mentor to Adolf Hitler during his early days in politics.

* 1947 – Hans Biebow, German Nazi chief ( b. 1902 )

The Polish Home Army conducted a regular campaign of assassinations against top Nazi German officials in occupied Poland.

Each of the national governments based in Berlin — the 1871 German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and now the reunified Germany — initiated ambitious ( re -) construction programs, with each adding its own distinctive style to the city's architecture.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

In his book the Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser also shares Adam Tooze ' ( in his work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy ), Overy's and Naveh's concerns over the myth of the blitzkrieg economic and strategy.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

It argues that " Western powers " aided Nazi rearmament and aggression, including that American bankers and industrialists provided capital for the growth of German war industries, while deliberately encouraging Hitler to expand eastward.

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His actions reflected the new American attitudes of the German people as Nazi victims not villains, while aggressively purging the ex-Nazis.

In terms of the British perspective, " It was necessary for the Nazi régime and / or the German Generals to surrender unconditionally in order to bring home to the German people that they had lost the War of themselves ; so that their defeat should not be attributed to a ' stab in the back '.

* 1945 – Theodor Dannecker, German Nazi officer ( b. 1913 )

It was set up, not by the traditional German Army, but by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler on October 18, 1944.

A year later, the Soviet occupation was taken over by a Nazi German one.

" In the 1930s, his German patrons, many Jewish, lost their fortunes and some their lives during the rise of the Nazi movement.

Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).

Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler termed it " the final solution of the Jewish question " ().

The Holocaust: Nazi Germany | Nazi German extermination and concentration camps in Occupation of Poland ( 1939 – 1945 ) | occupied Poland.

Most Holocaust historians identify six German Nazi extermination camps, all in occupied Poland ; two of them, Chełmno and the Auschwitz II, in the western Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany ( October 1939 ), four in the General Government area.

She was being treated by the famed Swiss doctor Auguste Rollier in 1940, when the Nazi armies rapidly conquered Europe.

* 1941 – Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.

Many European Soviet citizens and much of Russia's industry were relocated to Kazakhstan during World War II, when Nazi armies threatened to capture all the European industrial centers of the Soviet Union.

Freezing / hypothermia experiments were conducted for the Nazi high command to simulate the conditions the armies suffered on the Eastern Front, as the German forces were ill-prepared for the cold weather they encountered.

While active collaboration between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union caused great shock in western Europe and amongst communists opposed to Germany, on 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill declared that the Russian armies acted for the safety of Russia against " the Nazi menace.

Death struggle against Nazi armies at gates of Moscow and Leningrad.

In 1939, the Second World War broke out and France was occupied by the armies of Nazi Germany until 1945 ; his parents opposed the occupation and the Vichy regime who collaborated with them, but did not join the French Resistance.

During World War II, Triglav symbolically captured the primary drive for the Slovene resistance to the Fascist and Nazi armies, a national liberation.

A few months after the French succeeded in liberating Paris from Nazi occupation, with the help of the Allied armies, Chagall published a letter in a Paris weekly, " To the Paris Artists ":

Two of the most significant military parades on Red Square were the one in 1941, when the city was besieged by Germans and troops were leaving Red Square straight to the front lines, and the Victory Parade in 1945, when the banners of defeated Nazi armies were thrown at the foot of Lenin's Mausoleum.

In their analysis, it differed from the rest of the Eastern Bloc because it was established by the partisans of World War II who had fought against Nazi occupation, as opposed to by Stalin's invading armies.

Once they were captured by him, and Captain America was placed under Nazi control by a drug and told to assassinate the supreme commander of the Allied armies in Europe, but thanks to Bucky he broke free.

Rēzekne was heavily damaged by both Nazi and Soviet armies during World War II ; after heavy air-bombing by Soviet forces in 1944, 2 / 3 of its original buildings were completely destroyed.

Throughout the Antonescu years, Romania supplied Nazi Germany and the Axis armies with oil, grain, and industrial products.

) This unit was trained as parachute infantry and was intended for insertion into the expected " Alpine Redoubt " on the Austrian / German border, where senior Nazi officials were planning to make their last stand against the advancing Allied armies.

In the armies and Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany, the rank of Generalfeldmarschall was the highest military rank until July 1940, when it was made subordinate to the even higher rank of Reichsmarschall ( held solely by Hermann Göring ).

More than 27 million Soviet citizens had been killed as a result of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, including some 10, 651, 000 soldiers who fell in battle against Hitler's armies or died in POW camps.

Every day, it seemed, another once-stable European political reality would fall to the rapidly expanding Nazi armies, and the agonies of the death camps were beginning to reach our ears.

During the war German armies occupied most of Europe ; Nazi forces defeated France, took Norway, invaded Yugoslavia and Greece and occupied much of the European portion of the Soviet Union.

This in turn prompted Nazi Germany to reintroduce armoured trains into its own armies.

In 1940, when France fell to the Nazi German armies, the occupied French administration, the Vichy, took power not only in France ( under German rule ), but also in France's overseas colonies, including Cambodia.

A group of Dutch soldiers were forced to withdraw in May 1940 after the unexpected invasion of the Netherlands by the Nazi armies.

In World War II, the members of this family suffered many military and ethnic-based casualties in the following incidents ; the Polish Defensive War September – October 1939, Katyn and the related Smolensk region massacres, Nazi work camps, Soviet Gulags and military deaths in resistance movements or as anti-Axis members of the British, Soviet or French armies.