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unusual facts about Nazi German



Chlebowo, Lubusz Voivodeship

Under Nazi German rule, the village's name was Germanised to Lindenhain in 1937; after it fell to the Republic of Poland according to the 1945 Potsdam Agreement (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II), it was renamed Niemaszchleba and again in 1953 Chlebowo.

Édouard Depreux

After serving as a member of the Sceaux commune council in 1935, and as a council member for Seine (1938–1941), he joined the French Resistance in the fight against the Nazi German military occupation, and held a high-ranking position in the SFIO executive committee, being the editor of the illegal newspaper Le Populaire.

Enric Marco

Enric Marco (born 1921 in Barcelona) is an impostor who claimed to have been a prisoner in Nazi German concentration camps Mauthausen and Flossenburg in World War II.

Georgian Tragedy of Kerch

Georgian Tragedy of Kerch (Georgian: ქერჩის ქართული ტრაგედია) was a tragic event occurred during World War II offensive by Nazi German army against the Soviet forces mostly composed of ethnic Georgians, in the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula.

Grendon, Northamptonshire

Some Second World War memories by a village resident of being straffed in the fields by a Nazi German controlled Spitfire can be found here

Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic

Immediately after the installment of Nazi German authority, a process of eliminating the Jewish and Gypsy population began, with many killings taking place in Rumbula.

Philip M. Morse

Early in 1942 he organized the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research Group (ASWORG), later ORG, for the U.S. Navy, after the US had entered World War II and was faced with the problem of Nazi German U-boat attacks on transatlantic shipping.

S. Parkes Cadman

On December 2, 1934, he wrote an article condemning the Nazi German government for the firing of theologian Karl Barth from a German university post as a result of the professor's outspoken opposition to the Nazi regime and adamant refusal to sign an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler.

Warszewo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (East Prussia), Judendorf (lit.:"Jewsvillage") was renamed "Hermannswalde" in 1936 by Nazi German authorities.


see also

Beneš-Mráz

It was established at Choceň by Pavel Beneš and Jaroslav Mráz on 1 Apr 1935 and manufactured a series of light aircraft of their own design until the Nazi-German occupation.

Drvar

In more recent history, Drvar is perhaps most famous as the location of a daring airdrop Raid on Drvar, codenamed "Operation Rösselsprung", on May 25, 1944 by Nazi German invaders in an attempt to assassinate Tito.

Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency

The Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) was the organization directly responsible for Operation Paperclip, an OSS program for capturing and taking Nazi German scientists to the United States at the end of the Second World War.

Lokot

Lokot Autonomy (1942–1943), a semi-autonomous region in Nazi German-occupied Russia

Nachrichtendienst

Nachrichtendienst the Nazi German secret intelligence agency in the novels of Robert Ludlum

Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij

Two of the subs fell into German hands in May 1940, and duly served in the Kriegsmarine (Nazi-German navy).

However, after the start of Operation Market Garden on September the 17th, 1944, the Nazi-German occupiers in Holland decided to destruct all major ports, port facilities and infrastructure in Holland.

Sonderaktion Krakau

Sonderaktion Krakau was the codename for a Nazi German operation against professors and academics of the Jagiellonian University and other universities in Nazi occupied Kraków, Poland, at the beginning of World War II.

Tor Skjønsberg

After Skjønsberg fled, Jens Christian Hauge became the leader of the resistance movement, although at this point it was evident that total surrender of the Nazi-German regime was only months away.

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg addresses developments contemporaneous with the years of The Goldbergs, Kristallnacht, the American Nazi German-American Bund and right-wing radio lecturer Father Coughlin.

Z Plan

Plan Z, a plan to re-equipment and expansion of the Nazi German Navy ordered by Adolf Hitler in 1939.