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German forces in Finnish territory launched an offensive against the city in 1941 as part of Operation Silver Fox, and Murmansk suffered extensive destruction, the magnitude of which was rivaled only by the destruction of Leningrad and Stalingrad.
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* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
* 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
* 1945 – The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
* 1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
* 1241 – Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.
* 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun – German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
* 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
* 1945 – Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.
Although used during the Normandy landings, by that point German aircraft were contained by the Allies own air forces and they were largely unneeded.
* 1918 – The Battle of Ambos Nogales takes place between U. S. forces and Mexican Carrancistas aided by German military advisors.
* 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
Ansbach hosts several units of the U. S. armed forces, associated with German units under NATO.
He was the rabbinical advisor to the German occupying forces of Poland in the First World War and was also one of the founders of the World Agudath Israel movement.
( German armed forces, June 1943 )
During the Battle of France, the French, who made attempts to re-form defensive lines along rivers, were constantly frustrated when German forces arrived there first and pressed on.
Many academic historians hold the idea that the German armed forces adopted " blitzkrieg " as an offensive doctrine to be a myth.
It does not treat in any detail operational and tactical matters, and does not suggest that the German armed forces have evolved a radically new operational method.
A command for armoured forces was created within the German Wehrmacht ; the Panzerwaffe, as it came to be known later.
Having achieved a breakthrough into the enemy's rear areas, German forces attempted to paralyze the enemy's ability to react.
Every decision made by German or opposing forces required time to gather information, make a decision, disseminate orders to subordinates, and then implement this decision through action.
Early German successes enjoyed air superiority with unencumbered movement of ground forces, close air support, and aerial reconnaissance.
In this way they depleted German combat power even as German forces advanced.
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* 1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
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* 1918 – Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
One example is of a then Finnish mobile network company Sonera, which paid huge sums in German broadband auction then dubbed as 3G licenses.
Unlike in standard German but like Finnish and Swedish ( when followed by ' r '), Ä is pronounced, as in English mat.
Many of the coinages that have been considered ( often by Aavik himself ) as words concocted ex nihilo could well have been influenced by foreign lexical items, for example words from Russian, German, French, Finnish, English and Swedish.
Bulwer-Lytton's works of fiction and non-fiction were translated in his day and since then into many languages, including Serbian ( by Laza Kostic ), German, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Finnish, and Spanish.
Additionally, in some languages a " concourse " ( Swedish konkurs, Finnish konkurssi, German Konkurs ) takes its meaning from " concourse of debtors "; that is, it means bankruptcy, while in Russian конкурс takes one more meaning and refers to contest.
Likewise, in the context of corporations, German Konzern, Swedish koncern and Finnish konserni means " conglomerate ", not " concern ".
Both the Russian and German empires had political, economic and military interests in the Finnish region.
Controlling the Finnish area would allow the German army to enter Russia at Petrograd and to penetrate northeast, towards the Kola Peninsula, an area rich with raw materials for the mining industry.
The first Finnish Jägers had arrived in Finland on 31 October on a ship called Equity, carrying a large shipment of weapons from the German army.
In foreign policy, the Vaasa Senate leaned on the German Empire for military and political aid, in order to defeat the Finnish Red Guards, end the influence of Bolshevist Russia in Finland, and expand Finnish territory to Russian Karelia.
The German Empire intervened in the Finnish Civil War on the side of the White Army in March 1918.
Finnish nationalists leaning on Germanism had been seeking German aid in freeing Finland from Russian hegemony since Autumn 1917, but the Germans did not want to prejudice their armistice and peace negotiations with Russia because of the pressure they were facing at the Western front.
The final blow to the cause of the Finnish Reds was dealt when the Bolsheviks broke off the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, leading to the German eastern offensive in February 1918.
German artillery bombarded and destroyed the Helsinki Workers Hall, and put out the Red lantern of the Finnish revolution.
Both of these opposed Swedish support for the Whites, because they had co-operated with the German Empire and fought against the Finnish Social Democrats.
Moreover, the Swedish Navy escorted the German naval squadron, transporting German weapons to the Finnish Whites, and allowed the squadron to pass through Swedish territorial waters in February 1918.
In Turkish, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Sallan, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish the order is reversed ; the amount is followed by a fixed space and the ISO 4217 code:
His works have been translated into Belorussian, Bulgarian, Czech, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Russian and Slovenian.
Kashubian literature has been translated into Czech, Polish, English, German, Belarusian, Slovene and Finnish.
During the Continuation War ( 1941 – 1944 ) not only Finnish and Soviet, but also German and Italian vessels operated there ( see also Naval Detachment K and Regia Marina ).
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