The SS rank system was unique in that it did not copy the terms and ranks used by the Wehrmacht's branches ( Heer (" army "), Luftwaffe (" air force "), and Kriegsmarine (" navy ")), but instead used the ranks established by the post-World War I Freikorps and taken over by the SA.

After the Wehrmacht's conquest of the Polish Corridor at the beginning of World War II, Regierungsbezirk Westpreußen was transferred from East Prussia to the newly-created Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia on 26 October 1939.

During the Second World War Köslin was the site of the first school for the rocket troops created on orders of Walter Dornberger, the Wehrmacht's head of the V-2 design and development program.

This invasion was the first major test of the Wehrmacht's machinery.

In February 1944 Major Rebane's unit was transferred to the Narva Front and attached to the Wehrmacht's 26th Army Corps on March 2.

Germany's involvement grew in September to encompass the Wehrmacht's other branches ; Operation Magic Fire was renamed Operation Guido in November.

The second collaborationist leader, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, who had fled to Germany after the Wehrmacht's withdrawal, was caught by the U. S. military and was condemned to life imprisonment.

The Einsatzgruppen massacres were usually justified under the grounds of anti-partisan operations rather than racist attacks, but the historian Andreas Hillgruber wrote that this claim was just an " excuse " for the Wehrmacht's considerable involvement with the Einsatzgruppen massacres.

Upon the Wehrmacht's entry into the Sudetenland, Henlein was appointed Reichskommissar and became a SS-Gruppenführer ( later an SS-Obergruppenführer ).

After the Wehrmacht's defeat in the 1943 Battle of Stalingrad, public opinion in Sweden ( the government of which remained officially neutral throughout the war, though ideologically aligned with the Allies, but also supplying the Nazis with strategic war materials ), was more free to display outward hostility toward the Nazis, especially as news of the Holocaust became widespread ( public opinion was mainly anti-Nazi from the start, but was censored in the press by the government, to avoid severe repercussions from Germany ).

Construction was called off and Himmler's written order arrived two days later countering the Wehrmacht's original instructions.

Timoshenko and Khruschev claimed that the danger coming from Wehrmacht's Kramatorsk group was exaggerated, and Stalin refused the withdrawal again.

In October 1 Panzer Division was reorganized as part of the Wehrmacht's increase in the number of mechanized divisions.

* while 27th Rifle Corps's 280th Rifle Division stood at Jüterbog, where the Wehrmacht's main artillery school was located.

Eventually the Soviets managed to slow the Wehrmacht's blitzkrieg, halting the Nazi offensive in December 1941 outside the gates of Moscow, in part because mobilized troops with winterized clothing from Siberia were transferred from there after Stalin realized that Japan was not going to attack the USSR ( Japan had just attacked Pearl Harbor ).

After his surrender, Lothar Rendulic was interned and tried as a military criminal in the " hostages trial " at Nuremberg, because of his involvement in the Wehrmacht's attacks on civilians in Yugoslavia and the scorched earth policy in Lapland.

During World War II Maglakelidze was a commander in the Wehrmacht's Georgische Legion.

During the Second World War, the Wehrmacht's ethnic Georgian Legion was formed from émigrés living in Western Europe after the 1921 Soviet invasion of Georgia, combined with Soviet prisoners of war of Georgian origin who were enlisted, while facing certain death from starvation, disease, forced labor and brutality in POW camps.

Following this, the division was sent into the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht's reserve.

The Velikiye Luki offensive operation () was executed by the forces of the Red Army's Kalinin Front against the Wehrmacht's 3rd Panzer Army during the Winter Campaign of 1942-1943 with the objective of liberating the Russian city of Velikiye Luki as part of the northern pincer of the Rzhev-Sychevka Strategic Offensive Operation ( Operation Mars ).

It was the garrison of the Wehrmacht's 9th Anti-Tank Battalion ( Panzer-Abwehrabteilung 9, abbreviated as PzAbwAbt 9 ).

On April 17 the Yugoslav government surrendered, faced with the Wehrmacht's overwhelming superiority.

At the time of his execution, Canaris had been decorated with the Iron Cross First and Second Class, the Silver German Cross, the Cross of Honor and the Wehrmacht's Twelve and Twenty-Five Year Long-Service Ribbons.

The 1st Manchesters, after entering German territory in the face of the Wehrmacht's defences, crossed the Rhine with the 53rd Division in late March.

During World War II, most purpose-built German Wehrmacht and Soviet Red Army tank destroyers and self-propelled guns ( like the Wehrmacht's Sturmgeschütz III ) essentially had turretless, armored steel casemates mounted onto ( or built integrally into ) conventional main battle tank chassis to carry heavier, forward firing guns — the German vehicles were dubbed Jagdpanzer and Panzerjäger respectively, while their Soviet counterparts all bore an " SU -" or " ISU -" prefix, with the " SU -" prefix an abbreviation for Samokhodnaya Ustanovka in Russian, or " self-propelled installation " in their designations, much like the U. S. Army's designation for self-propelled artillery, and American tank destroyers, as a " Gun Motor Carriage ".

Inevitably, both the Bomber B and Amerika Bomber programs were victims of the continued emphasis of the Wehrmacht's insistence for the Luftwaffe to support the Army as its primary mission, as well as the increasingly devastating results of the RAF Bomber Command at night, and by 1943 the USAAF's Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces ' heavy bomber raids by daylight on the German aviation industry, which catastrophically diminished the Third Reich's overall aviation production capacity later in World War II.

One source contends that he also continued to work for Canaris and the Abwehr, paving the way for the Wehrmacht's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.

After it became clear that Spain would not enter the war, on 18 December 1940 Hitler approved Operation Barbarossa, declaring that henceforth the Wehrmacht's number one priority would be the defeat of the Soviet Union " even before the conclusion of the war against England ".

Eight minutes later, Lieutenant Wilhelm Henningsen's crack marines storm unit from the Schleswig-Holstein advanced in three platoons while the Wehrmacht's Pioneers blew up the railroad gate going on the land-bridge, expecting an easy victory over the surprised Poles.

Several Soviet generals have placed the blame on the inability of Stavka and Stalin to appreciate the Wehrmacht's military power on the Eastern Front after their defeats in the winter of 1941 – 1942 and in the spring of 1942.

After the Battle of Stalingrad, in September 1942 the Wehrmacht's arms bureau, the Waffenamt, called for a new standard for assault weapons: 100 mm of armor to the front, 40 – 50 mm on the sides, wider tracks, ground clearance of 50 cm, top speed of 26 km / h and the lowest possible firing positions.

These concepts formed the basis of the Wehrmacht's tactics during the Second World War.

Hitler's, and the Wehrmacht's planning attitudes during the 1930s do not reflect a blitzkrieg method, but the exact opposite.

On 5 December, the Soviets launched a counteroffensive, pushing German troops back 40 – 50 miles from Moscow, the Wehrmacht's first significant defeat of the war.

The Red Army repelled the Wehrmacht's strongest blow, and Adolf Hitler did not achieve the expected victory, but the Soviet Union's situation remained dire.

** WWII: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad.

With the Wehrmacht's control of northern Italy, the Germans seized Beretta and continued producing arms until the 1945 German surrender in Italy.

Even the armed guards were former troops from the Wehrmacht's Feldgendarmerie and Feldjägerkorps.

Stalin had been pressing to open a " second front " in Europe, which would weaken the Wehrmacht's invasion of Russia.

Rector was warming to his over-all strategy by the time he got back to the residential hall.

Another strategy -- bolder and tougher -- was also attracting notice in Washington: a naval and air blockade to cut Cuba off from the world, destroy Castro.

Their strategy was sound enough and, he reasoned, had been defeated only by Philip Spencer's unwillingness to sanction an idea he had not originated.

In terms of war strategy, Lincoln articulated two priorities: to ensure that Washington was well-defended, and to conduct an aggressive war effort that would satisfy the demand in the North for prompt, decisive victory ; major Northern newspaper editors expected victory within 90 days.

The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction.

Lawry was sacked after the Sixth Test after the selectors finally lost patience with Australia's lack of success and dour strategy.

" The Liberal strategy was to create a large class of small land-owning farmers who supported Liberal ideals.

Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.

One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer ; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations ; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire ( Urkesh and Marhashe ).

Alfred determined their strategy was to launch smaller scaled attacks from a secure and reinforced defensible base which they could retreat to should their raiders meet strong resistance.

This strategy was a success, and Knox and Reed were able to fend off all lawsuits that would have placed blame upon the club's members.

Since a -/- mutation in the APAF-1 gene is embryonic lethal, a gene trap strategy was used in order to generate an APAF-1 -/- mouse.

He was at the same time capable of forming and executing the most daring offensive strategy, and his tactical skill in the handling of troops, whether in wide turning movements, as at Würzburg and Zürich, or in masses, as at Aspern and Wagram, was certainly equal to that of any leader of his time, with only a few exceptions.

This was primarily a political strategy designed to give the Conservative party control of the reform process and the subsequent long-term benefits in the Commons, similar to those derived by the Whigs after their 1832 Reform Act.

Had the battle actually taken place in the true month of August, when the harvest was becoming ripe, Pompey's strategy of starving Caesar would not be plausible.

Borland had had an internal project to clone dBASE which was intended to run on Windows and was part of the strategy of the acquisition, but by late 1992 this was abandoned due to technical flaws and the company had to constitute a replacement team ( the ObjectVision team, redeployed ) headed by Bill Turpin to redo the job.

German strategist Carl von Clausewitz stated that " the employment of battles ... to achieve the object of war " was the essence of strategy.

MacArthur's strategy was chosen.

Hitler was a strong supporter of this new strategy.

However, the Luftwaffe was a broadly based force with no constricting central doctrine, other than its resources should be used generally to support national strategy.

The origins of blitzkrieg are in some doubt: if it existed, who contributed to it, whether it was part of German war strategy in 1933 – 1939.