The solution to the puzzle as well as explaining the historical circumstances leading to the choice of the Agri Decumates as a defensive point and the concentration of Germans there are probably to be found in the German attack on the Gallic fortified town of Vesontio in 58 BC.

It was the largest of the German concentration camps, consisting of Auschwitz I ( the Stammlager or base camp ); Auschwitz II – Birkenau ( the Vernichtungslager or extermination camp ); Auschwitz III – Monowitz, also known as Buna – Monowitz ( a labor camp ); and 45 satellite camps.

Blitzkrieg ( German, " lightning war "; ) is an anglicised word describing all-motorised force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery, combat engineers and air power, concentrating overwhelming force at high speed to break through enemy lines, and, once the lines are broken, proceeding without regard to its flank.

As the German Army invaded Austria in 1938, he was sent to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald.

It uses the highest possible concentration of caffeine for beverages allowed by German law ( 25 mg / 100ml ) and is available in most of Germany, as well as parts of western and central Europe.

* 1945 – Irma Grese, German concentration camp supervisor ( b. 1923 )

* 1945 – Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant ( b. 1906 )

* 1945 – Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-born German concentration camp supervisor ( b. 1919 )

Esperantists in German concentration camps taught the language to fellow prisoners, telling guards they were teaching Italian, the language of one of Germany's Axis allies.

In the 20th century German chemist Walther Nernst proposed a mathematical model to determine the effect of reactant concentration on electrochemical cell potential.

The Holocaust: Nazi Germany | Nazi German extermination and concentration camps in Occupation of Poland ( 1939 – 1945 ) | occupied Poland.

Corpses of victims of the German Buchenwald concentration camp.

* September 17, 1948, Lehi assassination of the United Nations mediator Count Bernadotte, negotiator of the release of about 31, 000 prisoners including thousands of Jews from German concentration camps during World War II, whom Lehi accused of a pro-Arab stance during the cease-fire negotiations.

* 1946 – Gerda Steinhoff, German concentration camp overseer ( b. 1922 )

By April 1938, Ribbentrop had ended all German arms shipments to China and had all of the German Army officers serving with the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek recalled ( with the threat that the families of the officers in China would be sent to concentration camps if the officers did not return to Germany immediately ).

After years of discrimination and harassment, local Jews were deported by the German authorities to concentration camps in 1940.

The German court found in favour of Gladitz, agreeing that Riefenstahl had known the extras were from a concentration camp, and they agreed with Riefenstahl on only one count ( finding that Riefenstahl had not informed the Gypsies that they would be sent to the Auschwitz camp after filming was completed ).

The Soldau concentration camp was established in Winter 1939, here 13, 000 people have been murdered by the Nazi German state during the war.

Before the war Nazi German state sent undercover operatives to spy on Polish organisations and created lists of people that were to be executed and sent to concentration camps.

* 1900 – Rudolf Höß, German concentration camp commandant ( d. 1947 )

* 1901 – Arthur Liebehenschel, German concentration camp commandant ( d. 1948 )

* 1943 – Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put " on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps ".

* Jews held at the Sered concentration camp who were spared from being deported to German death camps as a result of his intervention.

But in other instances, Mary McAleese has been criticised for certain comments, such as a reference to the way in which Protestant children in Northern Ireland had been brought up to hate Catholics just as German children had been encouraged to hate Jews under the Nazi regime, on 27 January 2005, following her attendance at the ceremony commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp .< ref >

This concentration of the U. S. fleet would force the British to tie down such a large proportion of their navy to watch the New York exits that the other American ports would be relatively safe.

However, the most powerful concentration of the French fleet remained in Mers-el-Kébir or Dakar.

Since its commissioning in December 1942, NS Mayport has grown to become the third largest naval fleet concentration area in the United States.

Another advantage is that a relative movement of the line in relation to some part of the enemy fleet allows for a systematic concentration of fire on that part.

The greater the concentration of a fleet, the more difficult it was to conceal its whereabouts and movements.

In the early 1980s Congress approved the strategic homeporting initiative to build additional bases and disperse the fleet from the main concentration areas.

At 09: 55 hours his fleet had cleared the harbor's entrance, and as Admiral Vitgeft's Pacific Squadron completed their exit, he wisely made a feint to the south-west to conceal his actual intent, whereby he succeeded in delaying Admiral Heihachiro Togo's concentration of his forces.

Because of this, NOSCs outside the fleet concentration areas are also heavily tasked to provide personnel, both FTS staff and SELRES, for participation in Funeral Honors Details.

The British Admiralty became concerned about the concentration of such a large segment of the French fleet in one place.

He also planned concentration camps in Norway, establishing Falstad concentration camp near Levanger and Bredtvet concentration camp in Oslo in late 1941.

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany Frisch was imprisoned in Bredtveit concentration camp from 17 October 1943, then in Berg concentration camp from 22 November 1943, then in Grini concentration camp from 9 December 1943 to 8 October 1944.

Sweden, as well as the adjacent country Norway, has a high concentration of petroglyphs ( hällristningar in Swedish ) throughout the country, with the highest concentration in the province of Bohuslän.

A large concentration of Norway ’ s heritage-listed farms is located in Heidal in Sel municipality ( Heidal became part of Sel municipality in 1965 ).

During the German occupation of Norway in World War II, the Berg concentration camp was constructed near Tønsberg.

* Sjøgata, a historic and picturesque street containing the largest concentration of 19th century wooden buildings in Northern Norway.

During World War II, Gerhardsen took part in the organised resistance against Nazi occupation and was arrested on 11 September 1941 and interned in concentration camps at Grini in Norway and at Sachsenhausen in Germany in August 1944.

Named as secretary of the Labour Party's crisis committee during the Nazi invasion of Norway, he was arrested by the Germans in 1942, was a Nacht und Nebel prisoner of various German concentration camps from 1943 to 1945 but survived.

His memoirs about his time in German concentration camps-Prisoner in Night and Fog-became a bestseller in Norway.

When he was finally discharged, he reported back to Oranienburg and was asked whether he wanted to go to Norway to become commandant of a new concentration camp at Mysen.

After the Norwegian Campaign and the surrender of Norway, Adolf Hitler did not want units of the Wehrmacht ( regular army ) to guard the new border between occupied Norway and the Soviet Union, created when Joseph Stalin annexed northernmost Finland, so he decided to send units of the SS-Totenkopfverbände ( SS-Death's Head Units ) formed from concentration camp guards.

Grini prison camp (, ) was a Nazi concentration camp in Bærum, Norway, which operated between 1941 and May 1945.

Falstad concentration camp was a prison camp in the village of Ekne in what was the municipality of Skogn ( now in the municipality of Levanger ) in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway.

Category: Nazi concentration camps in Norway

Berg was a concentration camp near Tønsberg in Norway that served as an internment and transit center for political prisoners and Jews during the Nazi occupation of Norway.

Category: Nazi concentration camps in Norway