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!

The label " Saxons " ( in Romanian ' Saşi ') was also applied to German settlers who migrated during the 13th century to southeastern Transylvania.

It entailed the creation of the belief in German minds that the Allied force consisted of two army groups, 21st Army Group under Montgomery ( the genuine Normandy invasion force ), and 1st U. S. Army Group ( FUSAG ) ( a fictitious force under General George Patton ), positioned in southeastern England for a crossing at the Pas de Calais.

The Wadden Sea (,, Low German: Wattensee or Waddenzee,, West Frisian: Waadsee ) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea.

Before 1939, Beuthen, along with Gleiwitz ( now Gliwice ), was at the southeastern tip of German Silesia.

The Rhone (, ; ; Walliser German: Rotten ; ; ; ) is one of the major rivers of Europe, rising in Switzerland and running from there through southeastern France.

Frisia or Friesland is a coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea, i. e. the German Bight.

These businesses included Coulthards Brewery, Nicholas Bayard's slaughterhouse on Mulberry Street ( which was nicknamed " Slaughterhouse Street "), numerous tanneries on the southeastern shore, and the pottery works of German immigrants Johan Willem Crolius and Johan Remmey on Pot Bakers Hill on the south-southwestern shore.

Venlo () is a municipality and a city in the southeastern Netherlands, next to the German border.

Zamość (; ; German: Zamosch ) is a town in southeastern Poland with 66, 633 inhabitants ( 2004 ), situated in the south-western part of Lublin Voivodeship ( since 1999 ), about from Lublin, from Warsaw and from the border with Ukraine.

Upper Silesia (; Silesian: Gůrny Ślůnsk ; ; ; Silesian German: Oberschläsing ; ) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia.

Zemun and the southeastern Syrmia were conquered by the Austrian Habsburgs in 1717, after the Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Peterwardein ( 5 August 1716 ) and through the Treaty of Požarevac ( German: Passarowitz ) became a property of the Schönborn family.

Located in southeastern Holland near the German border, Kasteel Well is approximately two hours from Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, and Brussels, and five hours from Paris, Milan, and Madrid.

In addition, in contemporary Belgium there are also some other areas where Germanic languages were or are spoken ( the division line between German, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Limburgish, ... is very thin since they are all part of the same dialect continuum ) that belonged to Belgium even before 1920, but they are not currently officially considered part of the German-speaking community in Belgium: Bleiberg-Welkenraedt-Baelen in northeastern province of Liège and Arelerland ( city of Arlon and some of its nearby villages in southeastern province of Belgian Luxembourg ).

After the German invasion of the USSR, the southeastern part of the Kresy were included into Greater Germany's General Government, whilst the rest was passed to the Reichskommissariats Ostland and Ukraine.

In 1694, Johannes Kelpius brought a group of German Pietists to the banks of the Wissahickon Creek in southeastern Pennsylvania.

The operation was carried out by means of false radio signals purporting to show units massing in southeastern England, together with false reports to German intelligence by double agents provided by the Double Cross System.

The Elbe Sandstone Mountains, also called the Elbe sandstone highlands (; ) is a mountain range straddling the border between the state of Saxony in southeastern Germany and the North Bohemian region of the Czech Republic, with about three-quarters of the area lying on the German side.

Despite its Latin name, which means German or Germanic medlar, it is indigenous to southwest Asia and also southeastern Europe, mostly the Black Sea coasts of modern Turkey.

As of the date of the announcement, the investment was the largest private economic development investment in Alabama's history and the largest by a German company in the U. S. The site selection announcement came after several months of competition involving several southeastern sites which was eventually narrowed between a site on the Mississippi River in Convent, Louisiana, and a site on the Tombigbee River, in Calvert, Alabama in north Mobile County, about 40 miles north of Mobile.

For decades, the main task of the German settlers was to defend the southeastern border of the Kingdom of Hungary.

A large German artillery piece, booty from the First World War, was removed from the southeastern part of the park in the mid-1980s.

German Bight (; ; ; ) is the southeastern bight of the North Sea bounded by the Netherlands and Germany to the south, and Denmark and Germany to the east ( the Jutland peninsula ).

A Pennsylvania Dutch style is recognized in parts of southeastern Pennsylvania that were settled by German immigrants in the 18th century.

| PLACE OF DEATH = Behobeho, German East Africa ( now the Selous Game Reserve in southeastern Tanzania )

Silver Beach is a predominantly Irish, German, and Italian neighborhood in the southeastern Bronx, lying on a bluff on the southern shore of Throggs Neck.