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Encyclopedia - Sea Of Azov: Encyclopedia - Sea Of Azov
The Sea of Azov (Russian: Азовское море, Azovskoye more; Ukrainian: Азовське море, Azovs'ke more) is a northern s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1941: Encyclopedia - 1941
1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1941 - Events. 1941 - January-February. Janua...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1941: Encyclopedia Ii - 1941 - Events
1941 - January-February. January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. Ja...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Kharkov And The Hitlerjugend Division
By Meyer's return, the LSSAH had been transformed into SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 'Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler'. After the II SS-Korps...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Order Of Battle At The Austerlitz Campaign: Encyclopedia Ii - Order Of Battle At The Austerlitz Campaign - La Grande Armée D'allemagne
The French army was under the supreme command of Emperor Napoleon, with Marshal Louis Alexandre Berthier as his chief of staff. The overa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taganrog: Encyclopedia Ii - Taganrog - General Information
Taganrog does not resemble other seaside towns by the very fact that its location is not in a quiet harbor, but on a hill. The town is op...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - End Of The War - War Crimes Trials
Meyer was held as a prisoner of war until December 1945, when in the town of Aurich Germany he was charged with five war crimes. After a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taganrog: Encyclopedia Ii - Taganrog - Views Of Taganrog
The Palace of Alexander I of Russia in Taganrog, where the Russian Emperor died in 1825, as appears on a 19th century postcard. The Assum...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taganrog: Encyclopedia Ii - Taganrog - Economy
The City of Taganrog is the leading industrial center of the Rostov Oblast. Local industry is presented by aerospace, machine-building, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taganrog: Encyclopedia Ii - Taganrog - Notable People
Numerous Russian and international aristocrats, politicians, artists, and scientists were born and/or have lived in Taganrog. Taganrog is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Final Battles In Normandy - Falaise Pocket
While the Division rested and refitted, Meyer went to visit Erwin Rommel, the overall commander of the Western Front. When he requested a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Barbarossa
Meyer's Abteilung took part in the June 1941 Operation Barbarossa as a part of Heeresgruppe Süd. His lightning quick actions during this...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1941: Encyclopedia Ii - 1941 - Deaths
1941 - January. January 4 - Henri Bergson, French philiosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859) January 5 - Amy J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1941: Encyclopedia Ii - 1941 - Births
1941 - January. January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, American composer, producer, and musician [[January 4[[ - Joan Frances Southwell, daughter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Early Life
Kurt Adolph Wilhelm Meyer was born in Jerxheim in Niedersachsen on 23 December, 1910. He came from a lower class family, his father being...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Campaigns In Poland France And The Low Countries
Though the command of a static Anti-Tank company did not suit Meyer at all, he performed admirably during the Fall Weiss, the Invasion of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - The Balkans And Greece
Following the Western Campaign, the 15 Kradschützenkompanie was reorganized into the LSSAH's Aufklärungsabteilung (Reconnaissance detac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Normandy And The Battles Around Caen
On June 6 1944, the Allies launched the greatest amphibious invasion in history - Operation Overlord. The Western front now existed. Afte...   » Read the article