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.

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.

Former German military organisations have been the old German state armies, the Reichswehr ( 1921 – 1935 ) and the Wehrmacht ( 1935 – 1945 ).

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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.

Former COO Scott Arnold took the title of interim president and chief executive officer until November 8, 2005, when it was announced that Tod Nielsen would take over as CEO effective November 9, 2005.

Former Georgia Tech provost Jean-Lou Chameau became the eighth president of Caltech on September 1, 2006, replacing David Baltimore who had served since 1997.

Former Polish president and Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa set the toppling in motion.

Former Onna Roll president Big Al continues as of 2012 to organize a freestyle club night in New York.

Former ANC president Oliver Tambo even spent a significant proportion of his 30 year exile living and working in Zambia .< ref >

* 2012 – Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan says her last goodbye to President Ronald Reagan on June 11, 2004, prior to the interment and concluding a Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan | week-long state funeral for the president.

Former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi believed that if the company allowed the licensing of pornographic games, the company's image would be forever tarnished.

Former US president Jimmy Carter made a visit to Pyongyang in June 1994 in which he met with Kim and returned proclaiming that he had settled the nuclear question.

* 1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U. S. president to fly in an airplane.

Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final " golden spike " in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

Former Bulgarian Foreign Minister and Atlantic Club of Bulgaria founding president Solomon Passy owned a famous Trabant, which he used to take NATO Secretaries General Manfred Wörner, George Robertson and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer for a ride.

Former president of Uruguay Jorge Batlle with former American president George H. W.

* August 21 – Former president of South Africa, F. W. de Klerk, makes an official policy for crimes committed under Apartheid to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Cape Town.

* June 8 – Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.

Former Iowa Governor Horace Boies was a major contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 1896.

Former President Millard Fillmore was nominated for president with 179 votes out of the 234 votes cast.

A number of commanders and politicians, notably Serbia and Yugoslavia's former president Slobodan Milošević, were put on trial by the United Nations ' International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for a variety of war crimes, including deportations and genocide.

Former president of the BVI's Financial Services Commission, Michael Riegels, recites the anecdote that the industry commenced on an unknown date in the 1970s when a lawyer from a firm in New York telephoned him with a proposal to incorporate a company in the British Virgin Islands to take advantage of a double taxation relief treaty with the United States.

* Giuseppe Pisanu, Former Italian Minister of the Interior and now president of Antimafia Commission

Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger was the first Secretary of Energy, who was a Republican nominated to the post by Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the only time a president has appointed someone of another party to the post.

* Frank Perdue Former president and CEO of Perdue Farms.

* Wayne Embry – Contributor 1999 ( Former team president and G. M.