L’opération Anthropoid est l'opération montée en vue d'assassiner le dignitaire nazi Reinhard Heydrich.L'attentat se déroule à Prague le 27 mai 1942 et Heydrich meurt huit jours après des suites de ses blessures.. Planifiée par le Special Operations Executive, le service secret britannique qui soutenait les Résistances européennes lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, …

The Upper Rhine High Command (German: Oberkommando Oberrhein), also incorrectly referred to as Army Group Upper Rhine (German: Heeresgruppe Oberrhein), was a short-lived headquarters unit of the German Armed Forces created on the Western Front during World War II.The Upper Rhine High Command was formed on 26 November 1944 and deactivated on 25 …

Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against American citizens that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for CIA operatives to both stage and actually commit acts of violent terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and …

The Shelling of Mainila (Finnish: Mainilan laukaukset, Swedish: Skotten i Mainila, Russian: Ма́йнильский инциде́нт, romanized: Máynil'skiy intsidént) was a military incident on 26 November 1939 in which the Soviet Union's Red Army shelled the Soviet village of Mainila (Russian: Ма́йнило, romanized: Máynilo) near Beloostrov.

Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion (German: Unternehmen Seelöwe), was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War.Following the Battle of France, Adolf Hitler, the German Führer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, hoped the British government would accept …

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (tyskt uttal: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtˌpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐr] ()), född 7 oktober 1900 i München i Kejsardömet Tyskland, död 23 maj 1945 i Lüneburg i Tyskland, var en tysk nationalsocialistisk politiker, ursprungligen agronom.Himmler var chef för Schutzstaffel (SS) från 1929 till 1945. Han var riksdagsledamot från 1930, statssekreterare i inrikesministeriet 1936 ...

Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and test pilot.Along with Melitta von Stauffenberg, she flight tested many of Germany's new aircraft during World War II and received many honors. Reitsch was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler alive in the Führerbunker in late April 1945.. Reitsch set more than 40 flight altitude records and …

On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia, now Kętrzyn, in present-day Poland.The name "Operation Valkyrie"—originally referring to part of the conspiracy—has become associated with the entire event.

Aktion T4 désigne la campagne d'extermination par assassinat des adultes handicapés physiques et mentaux, allemands et autrichiens, menée par le régime nazi de 1939 à août 1941, qui a fait de 70 000 à 80 000 victimes.. Aktion T4 est le nom retenu après 1945 pour cette action conduite sous la direction du Bureau central T4 (de) de la chancellerie du Führer.

Early life. Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Springwells Township, Michigan. His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, to a family that had emigrated from Somerset, England in the 16th century. His mother, Mary Ford (née Litogot; 1839–1876), was born in Michigan as the youngest child of Belgian immigrants; her parents died when she was …

The Holocaust—the murder of about six million Jews by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945—is the best-documented genocide in history. Although there is no single document which lists all Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, there is conclusive evidence that about six million were murdered. There is also conclusive evidence that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the …

Die Alliierte Invasion in der Normandie oder Operation Overlord ab dem 6. Juni 1944 (englisch für Oberherr, Lehnsherr) als Deckname für die in Nordfrankreich 1944 stattgefundene Landung der Westalliierten der Anti-Hitler-Koalition im Zweiten Weltkrieg führte im Westen Europas zur Errichtung der zweiten Front gegen das Deutsche Reich.Die Landung vorwiegend mit Hilfe von …

For Operation Barbarossa, Germany mobilised 3,300,000 troops of the Heer, 150,000 of the Waffen-SS and approximately 250,000 personnel of the Luftwaffe were actively earmarked. German soldiers in a Panzer III tank; Kalmyk steppe north of Stalingrad, September 1942. ... Himmler pronounced a plan according to which 3 ...

The Deutsche Volksliste (German People's List), a Nazi Party institution, aimed to classify inhabitants of Nazi-occupied territories (1939-1945) into categories of desirability according to criteria systematised by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.The institution originated in occupied western Poland (occupied 1939-1945). Similar schemes were subsequently developed in …