Soviet Russia has been invaded twice by German troops in a generation.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

* 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.

They launched a major invasion of Gaul and northern Italy in 268, when the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion of the Goths from the east.

* 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.

* 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.

* 1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1, 000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.

* 1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur.

* 1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined German – Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops.

* 1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.

* 1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.

* 1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.

* 1945 – The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War.

The country joined the Axis Powers in 1941, when German troops preparing to invade Yugoslavia and Greece reached the Bulgarian borders and demanded permission to pass through its territory.

Even though Bulgaria did not send any troops to support the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Navy was involved in a number of skirmishes with the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, which attacked Bulgarian shipping.

This was the first time German troops entered in France since 1944, sealing the definitive Franco-German reconciliation.

The English and German troops who had held Schwenningen through the night joined the march, making a ninth column on the left of the army.

For example, Baldrick is reduced to making coffee from mud and cooking rats, while General Melchett hatches a plan for the troops to walk very slowly toward the German lines, because " it'll be the last thing Fritz will expect.

The Treaty of Versailles limited any German Army to a maximum of 100, 000 men, making impossible the deployment of massed troops which had characterized German strategy before the War.

Consisting of British, Japanese, Russian, Italian, German, French, US and Austrian troops, the alliance defeated the Boxers and demanded further concessions from the Qing government.

* 1941 – Holocaust: German troops murder over 15, 000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.

* 1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge – German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: " Nuts!

Since the magnitude of the plan made secrecy impossible, once the wheels had began to turn, persons controlling German industries, social institutions, and armed forces became, through their anti-Semitism or their tolerance of it, conscious accomplices of Hitler's crimes ; ;

Ansbach hosts several units of the U. S. armed forces, associated with German units under NATO.

( German armed forces, June 1943 )

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.

Some historians were prepared to go even further, claiming that blitzkrieg was not merely an operational doctrine of the German armed forces but a strategic concept on which the leadership of the Third Reich based its strategic and economic planning.

A popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged German tanks during the September 1939 campaign.

This arose from misreporting of a single clash on 1 September near Krojanty, when two squadrons of the Polish 18th Lancers armed with sabres scattered German infantry before being caught in the open by German armoured cars.

In addition, due to the interception of the German arms aboard the Aud, the provincial Volunteer units were very poorly armed.

The troops of the Red Guards were not professional soldiers but armed civilians, whose military training and discipline were mostly inadequate to resist the counter-attack of the White Army when it came, still less the onslaught of the German forces who arrived later.

* German Army ( German Empire ) ( 1871 – 1919 ), also known as the Imperial Army ( Reichsheer ), armed forces of the German Empire

* National People's Army ( 1956 – 1990 ), armed forces of the former German Democratic Republic

This agreement made the Ark Project responsible for the strategic sealift of German armed forces where the full-time charter of three roll-on-roll-off cargo and troop ships are ready for deployments.

On 20 July 1944, a group of German army officers led by Claus von Stauffenberg and including some of the highest-ranked members of the German armed forces attempted to assassinate Hitler, but failed to do so.

The Nazi German government subsequently announced it would recognize the independence of a neutral Albania and set about organizing a new government, police and armed forces.

Over a period of months the wall was rebuilt using concrete, and buildings were demolished to create a " death zone " in view of East German guards armed with machine guns.

During all this time, Ribbentrop feuded with various other Nazi leaders ; at one point in August 1939 an armed clash took place between supporters of Ribbentrop and those of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels over the control of a radio station in Berlin that was meant to broadcast German propaganda abroad ( Goebbels claimed exclusive control of all propaganda both at home and abroad whereas Ribbentrop asserted a claim to monopolize all German propaganda abroad ).

" During the Cold War, the United States was " aiming for a West German armed force, after their costly experience in the Korean War ".

In October 1962, a scandal erupted when police arrested five Der Spiegel journalists, charging them with high treason for publishing a memo detailing weaknesses in the West German armed forces.

Working alongside military commander Andrei Zhdanov as German advances threatened to cut off Leningrad he displayed considerable personal bravery, prancing around in defiance of heavy shelling at Ivanovskoye ; at one point he rallied retreating troops and personally led a counter-attack against German tanks armed only with a pistol.