Planning for global territorial expansion of the Axis powers; Germany, Italy and Japan, progressed before and during the Second World War.This included some special strike plans against the Allied nations (with similar intentions to the James Doolittle raid special Allied Strike). The Kingdom of Romania, a de facto major member of the Axis with a contribution on par with …

The Gleiwitz incident in 1939 involved Reinhard Heydrich fabricating evidence of a Polish attack against Germany to mobilize German public opinion for war and to justify the war with Poland. Alfred Naujocks was a key organiser of the operation under orders from Heydrich. It led to the deaths of Nazi concentration camp victims who were dressed as German soldiers and then …

La stazione e la torre radio di Gliwice, teatro dell'incidente.. L'incidente di Gleiwitz fu un finto attacco inscenato contro la stazione radio tedesca di Gleiwitz (l'attuale Gliwice) il 31 agosto 1939 che costituì il casus belli del quale Adolf Hitler si servì per giustificare agli occhi dell'opinione pubblica tedesca l'invasione della Polonia il giorno seguente da parte della Wehrmacht ...

31 – Operatie Himmler: SS'ers in Poolse uniformen creëren een nagemaakte Poolse aanval op het radiostation in Gleiwitz. Deze verzonnen aanval wordt gebruikt als deel van de officiële aanleiding voor de aanval op Polen. ... 9 – Venlo-incident: Twee Britse agenten, majoor Stevens en kapitein Best, worden nabij Venlo ontvoerd en meegenomen ...

Jabłonków incident (Polish: Incydent jabłonkowski, Czech: Jablunkovský incident) refers to the events of the night of August 25/26, 1939, along the Polish-Slovak border, when a group of German Abwehr agents attacked a rail station in Mosty.The main purpose of the attack was to capture the Jablunkov Pass, with its strategic railroad tunnel, until the arrival of the German …

Sicherheitsdienst (German: [ˈzɪçɐhaɪtsˌdiːnst] (), Security Service), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS (Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.Established in 1931, the SD was the first Nazi intelligence organization and the Gestapo (formed in 1933) was considered its sister …

The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war.On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west. Subsequent military operations lasted for the following 20 days and ended on 6 October 1939 with the two-way division and annexation …

Between 1925 and 1945, the German Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), which ran the Nazi concentration and extermination camps.The following list of SS personnel gives the names of notable persons who are …

Bloody Sunday (German: Bromberger Blutsonntag; Polish: Krwawa niedziela) was a sequence of violent events that took place in Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg), a Polish city with a sizable German minority, between 3 and 4 September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland.. After German Selbstschutz snipers fired on retreating Polish troops, there was a Polish reaction …

L’« incident de Gleiwitz » du 31 août 1939 sert de prétexte au début des hostilités militaires. Le 1 er septembre 1939 , l'armée allemande pénètre en Pologne. En 1939 , l’ Allemagne nazie s'est déjà emparée de l' Autriche ainsi que de la Bohême et de la Moravie [ b ] .

Tweede Wereldoorlog Datum 1 september 1939 – 2 september 1945: Locatie Europa, Stille Oceaan, Zuidoost-Azië, het Midden-Oosten, Oceanië, het Middellandse Zeegebied en Afrika: Resultaat Nazi-Duitsland en Japan verslagen, opkomst supermachten VS en Sovjet-Unie, dekolonisatie: Casus belli: Azië: Marco Polobrugincident Europa: Duitse inval in Polen …

The Gleiwitz Case: Der Fall Gleiwitz: Gerhard Klein: Gleiwitz incident, 1939 1961 United Kingdom The Guns of Navarone: J. Lee Thompson: Action-adventure. Allied commandos on mission in Mediterranean Theatre: 1961 Japan The Human Condition: A Soldier's Prayer: Ningen no jōken III (人間の條件 III 人間の條件 完結篇) Masaki Kobayashi

Lukas Josef Podolski (German pronunciation: [ˈluːkas poˈdɔlski]; born Łukasz Józef Podolski, pronounced [ˈwukaʂ pɔˈdɔlskʲi], on 4 June 1985) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ekstraklasa club Górnik Zabrze.Famed for his powerful and accurate left foot, he is known for his explosive shot, technique and probing attacks from the left side.

Hitler's 1 September 1939 Reichstag speech is a speech made by Adolf Hitler at an Extraordinary Session of the German Reichstag on 1 September 1939, the day of the German invasion of Poland.The speech served as public declaration of war against Poland and thus of the commencement of World War II (Germany did not submit a formal declaration of war to Poland).