Former German territories east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, mainly the Prussian provinces of Pomerania, East Prussia, West Prussia, Upper Silesia, Lower Silesia, the eastern Neumark of Brandenburg, and a small piece of Saxony were thus detached from Germany.

: See also: Expulsion of Germans after World War II, The industrial plans for Germany, Oder-Neisse line, Former eastern territories of Germany, and German reparations for World War II

These escapes are said to have been assisted by an organization known as ODESSA, an acronym of the German phrase Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, which translates as the Organization of Former Members of the SS.

Former Bletchley Park mathematician-cryptologist Gordon Welchman has written: " Ultra would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use.

" Former senior adviser to the German parliament Matthias Küntzel tried to prove later on that German secret diplomacy had been instrumental in helping the KLA since its creation.

Former inhabitants of Ostrówek together with German merchants that immigrated here from the West, received first town rights probably as early as around, 1217 though this date is disputed.

Former German president Christian Wulff was visited on May 10, 2011 by a group of so-called Wolf children from Lithuania.

File: Ddr gorlitz. jpg | Former East German rail exit stamp from Görlitz.

Category: Former German colonies

Category: Former German colonies

Former Presidents of Liberal International include Dutch politician and former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein and German politician Otto Graf Lambsdorff.

Former politicians of the DDP joined in 1945 and following years especially the new Free Democratic Party ( 1945 / 1948 ), as did the liberals from the German People's Party.

Former minister of the interior Donaldo Álvarez Ruiz, who remains at large, and ex-chiefs of police German Chupina Barahona and Pedro García Arredondo are also named on the international arrest warrants.

Former eastern territories of Germany | Pre-war German territory east of the Oder-Neisse line is shown in Gray, as it was assigned / annexed to Poland and the Soviet Union.

Category: Former German colonies

Former German international Michael Ballack has also highlighted Kewell's ability and inconsistency.

File: Czciesz 828. jpg | Former German Lutheran church

Former German Army veterans joined " Freikorps " ( Free Corps ), an organization whose troops terrorized pro-Polish activists.

Category: Former German colonies

The ODESSA, from the German Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, meaning “ Organization of Former SS Members ,” is believed to have been an international Nazi network set up toward the end of World War II by a group of SS officers.

Former German national team coach Rudi Völler was named as caretaker manager.

Former German President Horst Köhler was born in the village during the occupation.

The initial military objectives of OEF-A, as articulated by Former President George W. Bush in his 20 September Address to a Joint Session of Congress and his 7 Oct address to the country, included the destruction of terrorist training camps and infrastructure within Afghanistan, the capture of al-Qaeda leaders, and the cessation of terrorist activities in Afghanistan.

Former President Álvaro Uribe intensified military operations against the FARC-EP, seeking to defeat them.

Former Tsarist officers were utilized as " military specialists " ( voenspetsy ), sometimes taking their families hostage in order to ensure loyalty.

* 2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.

Former President Niyazov stated that the neutrality would prevent Turkmenistan from participating in multi-national defense organizations, but allows military assistance.

Former Justice of the Peace Harry C. Staton was killed, and Ephraim Morgan, Governor of West Virginia, pleaded in person with President Harding for federal military support.

* June 7 – Former Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané seizes control over military barracks in Bissau, marking the beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War ( 1998 – 99 ).

An interim report of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities ( 1993 ) says: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has put on trial, and in some cases has convicted, a number of politicians and military commanders indicted for forced deportations in that region.

Former Foreign Minister Chen Yi, angered at a Politburo meeting, said factionalism was going to completely destroy the military, and in turn the party.

Former officers have emphasized that they never felt as limited by the logic of MAD ( and were prepared to use nuclear weapons in smaller scale situations than " Assured Destruction " allowed ), and did not deliberately target civilian cities ( though they acknowledge that the result of a " purely military " attack would certainly devastate the cities as well ).

Former British colonies, whose defence had provided much of the rationale for a British military presence in the region, moved towards independence under British governments of both parties.

Former Prime Minister Daoud seized power in a military coup on July 17, 1973, after allegations of corruption and poor economic conditions against the King's government.

; Former government and military operators

Former Soviet / Russian doctrine sacrifices tactical flexibility and adaptability for strategic and operational flexibility and adaptability ; tactical personnel are trained as relatively inflexible executors of specific, detailed orders, while the operational-strategic level of Russian military doctrine is where most innovation takes place.

Former striking miners have alleged that soldiers in police uniform were also used on the picket lines, to avoid publicising the necessity of bringing in the military ( this has never been proven ).

* Former CNN military analyst Perry Smith describes the controversy in the American Journalism Review

Category: Former military ranks of the Royal Air Force

Former " off-limit " military training areas have been converted into well-used public parks.

Former members of the college include the political and military leader Oliver Cromwell, the noted early historian Thomas Fuller and the 17th century poet and dramatist Thomas May.

* Ne Win Former military commander of Burma from 1962.

Most men had little or no loyalty to the Former Qin, and many were forced to join or joined only because of military rations and pay.

Former Scientologist Jon Atack argued, in A Piece of Blue Sky ( 1990 ), that treatment of Sea Org members in the RPF was a " careful imitation of techniques long-used by the military to obtain unquestioning obedience and immediate compliance to orders, or more simply to break men's spirits ..." One former member, Gerry Armstrong, said that during his time in the Sea Org in the 1970s he spent over two years banished to the RPF as a punishment:

* Roberto Valenzuela Simons – Former Mayor of Puerto Cortés, former General Manager of Empresa Nacional Portuaria ( Honduras National Port Authority ), he went into exile to Mexico during military governments.