* 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.

* 1940 – Gudrun Ensslin, German militant leader, founded Red Army Faction ( d. 1977 )

* 1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army.

By now, the war is nearing its end and the German Army is retreating.

At 19 years of age, Paul enlists in the German Army and is deployed to the Western Front where he experiences the severe psychological and physical effects of the war.

* 1987 – The U. S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

German Army PzH 2000 self-propelled artillery

* 1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.

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

It was part of the ' Big Push ' ( later known as the Battle of the Somme ) that was intended to force the German Army into a retreat from the Western Front, a line they had held since late 1914.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

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.

The OKW believed it too risky to allow German Corps and Army Groups to be operated and commanded independently by one field commander.

The infiltration tactics developed by the German Army during the First World War became the basis for later tactics.

During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

The Red Army was able to regroup far to the rear of the main battle line, and eventually defeat the German forces for the first time in the Battle of Moscow.

Writing on Doctrine and Training in the German Army 1919 – 1939, O ’ Neill stated:

The German Army had a greater grasp of the effects of technology on the battlefield, and went on to develop a new form of warfare by which its rivals when it came to the test were hopelessly outclassed.

Frieser, in agreement with Overy, Cooper and others that reject the existence of a blitzkrieg doctrine, argues that after the failure of the Schlieffen Plan in 1914, the German Army came to the conclusion decisive battles could not be executed on a strategic level.

It was never used in any German military field manual, either in the Army or the Air Force.

The German Army, contrary to what the blitzkrieg legend suggests, was not fully motorised.

The German Army could muster only 120, 000 vehicles compared to the 300, 000 of the French Army.

* 1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.

Thus, Alexander remained in command of the 15th Army Group, and, with the support of numerous allied commanders, controversially authorised the bombing of the historic abbey at Cassino, which resulted in little advance on the German Winter Line defences.

In 1944, the Soviet Union made significant advances across Eastern Europe toward Germany, including Operation Bagration, a massive offensive in Belorussia against the German Army Group Centre.

* ADC KRONE, formerly The KRONE Group, a German telecommunications company acquired by ADC Telecommunications

The Red Army Faction or Red Army Fraction ( RAF ; German: Rote Armee Fraktion ), in its early stages commonly known as Baader-Meinhof Group ( or Baader-Meinhof Gang ), was one of post – World War II Germany's most prominent left-wing militant groups.

In the following years, Škoda became the fourth brand of the German group, as the Volkswagen Group raised its equity share first on December 19, 1994 to 60. 3 %, followed on December 11, 1995 to 70 % and finally taking 100 % ownership of the company on May 30, 2000.

The material elaborated in GSM and its WP1 subgroup was handed over in Spring 1987 to a new GSM body called IDEG ( the Implementation of Data and Telematic Services Experts Group ), which had its kickoff in May 1987 under the chairmanship of Friedhelm Hillebrand ( German Telecom ).

Members of local reenactment groups such as the Second Battle Group were cast as extras to play German soldiers.

Unified German forces stage a coup d ' état against the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.

Volkswagen ( abbreviated VW ) is a German automobile manufacturer and the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group.

The artists of the November Group kept the spirit of radicalism alive in German art and culture during the Weimar Republic.

** Operation Bagration: A general attack by Soviet forces clears the German forces from Belarus, resulting in the destruction of German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.

** General Alexander Löhr, Commander of German Army Group E near Topolšica, Slovenia, signs the capitulation of German occupation troops.

* May 7 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.

* ATTAC Germany ( Group on Information Society ( German only ))

Albrecht von Thaer, Staff Officer at Group Wytshchate noted that casualties after 14 days in the line averaged 1, 500 – 2, 000 men compared to the Somme 1916 average of 4, 000 men and that German morale was better than in 1916.

German counter-attacks were defeated with heavy casualties and on 28 September Albrecht von Thaer, Staff Officer at Group Wytschaete wrote that the experience was " awful " and that he did not know what to do.

In July 1943, when the invasion carried out with the ' Operation Husky was in full swing, the port of Milazzo was significantly strengthened in its defenses as an important maritime center, rail and military. On August 14, 1943 the troops of the 15th Tactical Group III of the regimental American Infantry Division occupied Milazzo following the disengagement of the 71 th regiment of German infantry belonging to the 29th Division Panzergrenadier.

No large army units entered the Depression although German Afrika Korps patrols and the British Long Range Desert Group did operate in the area as these small units had considerable experience in desert travel.

The Public Relations and Information Services Control Group of the British Element of the Allied Control Commission began in 1945 to issue directives to officers in charge of producing newspapers and radio broadcasts for the German population to emphasize " the moral responsibility of all Germans for Nazi crimes.

To the south, the U. S. 12th Army Group under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley was nearing the German border and had been ordered to orient on the Aachen gap with Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges ' U. S. First Army, in support of Montgomery's advance on the Ruhr.

The failure of the 21st Army Group to seal off the Scheldt Estuary area had allowed the 65, 000 troops of the German Fifteenth Army to be extricated from the area with 225 guns and 750 trucks via a flotilla of commandeered freighters, barges and small boats.