1942 - January. January 1 - World War II: The term "United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact. January 2 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. The Japanese Admiral stays in Solvec (owned by Charles Henry de Silva), Philippines. January 5 - Amy Johnson disappears in flight over River Thames estuary - assumed drowned January 6 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world. Januar ...

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Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ...

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Between 1919 and 1920 Halder served with the Reichswehr War Ministry Training Branch. Between 1921 and 1923 he was a Tactics Instructor with the Wehrkreis VII in Munich. In March 1924 he was promoted to Major and by 1926 he served as the Director of Operations (Oberquartiermeister of Operations: O.Qu.I.) on the General Staff of the Wehrkreis VII in Munich. In February 1929 he was promoted to Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel), and from October 1929 through late 1931 he ...

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Franz Halder, Franz Halder - World War I Service, Franz Halder - Pre-World War II Service, Franz Halder - World War II Service, Franz Halder - After World War II, Franz Halder - Publications

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At the Nuremberg Trials he was charged with conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war-crimes and crimes against humanity. His close control over the RSHA meant that direct knowledge of and responsibility for the following crimes was ascribed to him: Mass murders of civilians of occupied countries by Einsatzgruppen. Screening of prisoner of war camps and executing racial and political undesirables. The taking of recaptured prisoners of war to concentration camps, where in some cases they were ...

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Ernst Kaltenbrunner - Early Life, Ernst Kaltenbrunner - Kaltenbrunner rises to a major Nazi figure, Ernst Kaltenbrunner - Nuremberg Trials, Ernst Kaltenbrunner - Miscellaneous

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Timeline of World War II - January. 1: Conscription extended in Britain: all men between 20 and 27 now liable. 4: Hermann Göring placed in charge of German war industries. 5: British cabinet is revised: Oliver Stanley takes over War Office, Lord Reith becomes Minister of Information, and Sir Andrew Duncan takes over Board of Trade. 7: General Semyon Timoshenko placed in command of Soviet troops against Finland. 8: Bacon, butter, and sugar rationing begins in Britain.See also:

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The area on which Prague was founded was settled in ancient times since the Paleolithic Age. Around 200 BCE the Celts had a settlement in the south, called Závist, but later they were expelled by Germans. The Slavs conquered the site from the 4th century CE onwards, though for a period were subdued by the Mongolian Avars. According to a legend, Prague was founded by the Princess Libuše and her husband, Přemysl, founder of the dynasty with the same name. Whether this legend is true or not, Prague's first nucleum was founded in the l ...

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Fatherland novel - History. Throughout the novel, Harris gradually explains the historical development of the society. According to the novel's version of history, the German armies on the Eastern Front launch a major offensive into the Caucasus in 1942, cutting the flow of oil to the Red Army. With its armies immobilised, the USSR surrenders in 1943. Germany had discovered the British broke their Enigma code and lured the British fleet to destruction with false intelligence. The U-Boat campaign against the Unite ...

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Born near Munich, Bavaria, Germany, into a middle-class family, he was the son of a Bavarian schoolmaster and attended Landshut High School. After leaving school, Himmler was appointed an Officer Cadet in 1918 and joined the 11th Bavarian Regiment for service in World War I. Shortly before he was due for commissioning as an officer the war ended, and he was discharged from the military without seeing combat. In 1919, a year after World War I had ended, Himmler began studying agronomy at the Technische Hochschule in Munich. During his ...

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Heinrich Himmler, Heinrich Himmler - Early life, Heinrich Himmler - Early Nazi Party activity, Heinrich Himmler - Rise in the SS, Heinrich Himmler - Consolidation of power, Heinrich Himmler - Himmler and the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler - The Second World War, Heinrich Himmler - Peace negotiations capture and death

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List of operations and projects military and non-military - World War I. Albion (1917) — German capture of Oesel, Dago and Moon Islands (now Saaremaa, Hiiumaa and Muhu) Kaiserschlacht ('Kaiser's battle') (1918) — German Spring offensive using armies released from the Eastern Front. Blucher-Yorck (1918) — Gneisenau (1918) — Georgette (1918) — Michael (1918) — Strafexpedition< ...

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While the early Christianization of the various Germanic peoples was achieved by various means, and was partly facilitated by the prestige of the Christian Roman Empire amongst European pagans. The rise of Germanic Christianity was, thus, mainly due to voluntary conversion, from the 8th century on the Continent mainly pursued by the Anglo-Saxon mission. In some instances, however, conversion was forceful. Charlemagne in the course of the Saxon Wars converted Saxon pagans by force. In 772 he destroyed their Irminsul, and in 782 he allegedly o ...

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Persecution of Heathens, Persecution of Heathens - Middle Ages, Persecution of Heathens - Nazi Persecution, Persecution of Heathens - Contemporary

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Operation Reinhard was devised as a more "humane" method of mass murder, but only for those conducting the killing. Conducting mass executions with firearms had a decidedly adverse effect on the morale of the SS units; therefore, Operation Reinhard used poisonous gas to mechanize the act of killing. It was the beginning of an industrialized mass murder unlike any previously known to mankind. Starting from November 1, 1941, three extermination camps were constructed to cope with the population of adjacent ghettos and other victims from ...

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Operation Reinhard, Operation Reinhard - The name, Operation Reinhard - The construction of the camps, Operation Reinhard - Chain of command, Operation Reinhard - Extermination process, Operation Reinhard - Camp structure

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Sten guns were produced in several basic marks, although the fourth was never issued and nearly half of the total produced were of the Mark II. All combined, approximately 4.5 million Stens were produced during the war. Sten - Mark I. This rare weapon had a conical flash hider and finest finish of the bunch. It had a wooden foregrip and forward handle, as well for a section of the stock. The stock was a small tube outline, rather like the Mark II Canadian. One unique feature was that the front pistol grip ...

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Sten, Sten - History, Sten - Design, Sten - Variants, Sten - Mark I, Sten - Mark I*, Sten - Mark II, Sten - Mark II Canadian, Sten - Mark III, Sten - Mark IV, Sten - Mark V, Sten - Mark VI, Sten - Silenced models, Sten - Foreign built copies and derivatives, Sten - Service

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Starting in the spring of 1939, the British Admiralty began to view Scandinavia as a potential theater of war in a future conflict with Germany. The British government was reluctant to engage in another land conflict on the continent that they believed would be a repeat of World War I. So they began considering a blockade strategy in an attempt to weaken Germany indirectly. German industry was heavily dependent on the import of iron ore from the northern Swedish mining district, and much of this ore was shipped through the northern Norwegian port of Narvik. Control of ...

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Operation Weserübung, Operation Weserübung - Political and military background, Operation Weserübung - Planning, Operation Weserübung - Preliminaries, Operation Weserübung - Invasion of Denmark, Operation Weserübung - Invasion of Norway, Operation Weserübung - Motivation; Order of Battle, Operation Weserübung - Concise timeline, Operation Weserübung - The Encircling of Sweden and Finland

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In 1977, Irving released his most notorious book, Hitler’s War, the first of his two-part biography on Adolf Hitler. In it, Irving tried to describe the war from “Hitler’s point of view.” He painted a favorable picture of Hitler - as one would if describing it from Hitler's own view as Hitler saw himself to be supreme, so painting him in a negative light while doing it from his own point of view would be self sabotage - portraying him as a rational, intelligent politician, whose only goal was to increase Germany’s prosperity ...

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David Irving, David Irving - Early life, David Irving - The Destruction of Dresden, David Irving - Historian, David Irving - Revisionist, David Irving - Holocaust denial and libel suit, David Irving - Persona non grata, David Irving - Current activities, David Irving - Arrest in Austria, David Irving - Recent Past, David Irving - Irving bibliography

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Main articles: European Theatre of World War II, Mediterranean Theatre of World War II, Pacific War, End of World War II in Europe World War II - A debated starting date. [4]The date on which World War II started is a debated subject; historians do not all agree on which event signified the start of the war. The most common date used is 1 September 1939, marking the German invasion of Poland, which resulted in the ...

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Jazz music was offensive to Nazi ideology because it was associated with the American enemy and worse, was often performed by African American (or Jewish) musicians. They called it "negro music" or "degenerated music" – coined in parallel to "entartete Kunst" (degenerated art). Moreover, song texts defied Nazi ideology, going as far as to promote sexual permissiveness. The Swing kids were initially basically apolitical, similar to the youthful rebellion in the history of rock and roll. A popular term that the Swing subculture used t ...

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Swing Kids, Swing Kids - Name, Swing Kids - Counter Culture, Swing Kids - The way to Resistance, Swing Kids - Connection with the Weiße Rose, Swing Kids - Swing Clubs, Swing Kids - Clamping Down, Swing Kids - In other Countries

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The area on which Prague was founded has been settled in since the Paleolithic Age. Around 200 BCE the Celts had a settlement in the south called Závist, but later they were expelled by Germans. The Slavs conquered the site from the 4th century CE onwards, though for a period they were subdued by the Mongolian Avars. According to legend, Prague was founded by the Princess Libuše and her husband, Přemysl, founder of the dynasty with the same name. Whether this legend is true or not, Prague's first nucleum was founded in the latter p ...

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The Gestapo was established on April 26, 1933, in Prussia, from the existing organization of the Prussian Secret Police. The Gestapo was first simply a branch of the Prussian Police, known as "Department 1A of the Prussian State Police". Its first commander was Rudolf Diels who recruited members from professional police departments and ran the Gestapo as a federal police agency, comparable to several modern examples such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Gestapo's role as a political police force was only established after H ...

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Gestapo, Gestapo - History, Gestapo - Increasing power under the SS, Gestapo - Keeping Hitler in power, Gestapo - Opposition from within Germany, Gestapo - Nuremberg Trials, Gestapo - Today, Gestapo - Organization, Gestapo - Referat N: Central Intelligence Office, Gestapo - Department A Enemies, Gestapo - Department B Sects and Churches, Gestapo - Department C Administration and Party Affairs, Gestapo - Department D Occupied Territories, Gestapo - Department E Counter-Intelligence, Gestapo - Department F Frontier and Border Police, Gestapo - Local Offices, Gestapo - Auxiliary Duties, Gestapo - The Daily Operations of the Gestapo, Gestapo - Gestapo counterintelligence, Gestapo - Notable individuals, Gestapo - Agents and officers of the Gestapo, Gestapo - People executed by the Gestapo, Gestapo - Other

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Assassination - Assassination as a political tool. Some would argue that assassination is one of the oldest tools of power politics, dating back to the earliest governments of the world. Towards the end of the Warring States Period (3rd century BC) in China, the state Qin rose to hegemony over other states. The Prince of the state Yan felt the threat and sought to remove the Qin king (later Qin Shi Huang) and sent Jing Ke for the mission. The assassin ...

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Assassination, Assassination - Etymology, Assassination - Definition problems, Assassination - Reasons for assassinations, Assassination - Assassination as a political tool, Assassination - Assassination for money, Assassination - Assassination as military doctrine, Assassination - Moral issues, Assassination - Techniques, Assassination - Counter-measures, Assassination - Source for conspiracy theories, Assassination - Related lists

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After the occupation of Poland in 1939, the Einsatzgruppen killed Poles belonging to the intelligentsia, such as priests and teachers. The Nazis considered all Slavic people Untermenschen, or subhumans, and wanted to use the Polish lower classes as servants and slaves. The mission of the Einsatzgruppen was therefore the forceful depoliticisation of the Polish people and the elimination of the groups most clearly ...

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Einsatzgruppen, Einsatzgruppen - History, Einsatzgruppen - The Jager Report, Einsatzgruppen - After the war, Einsatzgruppen - Organization, Einsatzgruppen - Secondary sources

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Protector title - Heads of State. Wakil ar-Ra`aya (rendered as Protector of the People) was the (or a?) title of the Persian imperial Monarch under the Zand dynasty - those rulers refused (except the last as noted) the style Shahanshah. The founding ruler adopted the style; it appears that his successors used the same style, although documentation is obscure 1773 - 1 March 1779 Mohammad Karim Khan Zand (b. c.1707 - d. 1779) 6 March 1779 - 1779 Abu al-Fath Khan Zand (1st ...

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Protector title, Protector title - Political & Administrative, Protector title - Heads of State, Protector title - Foreign Hegemons, Protector title - British colonial administration, Protector title - Religious & faith-related, Protector title - Catholic, Protector title - Islamic, Protector title - Sources and References

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Main article: Moscow Trials. Between 1936 and 1938 three Moscow Trials of former senior Communist Party leaders were held. The defendants were accused of conspiring with the western powers to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders, dismember the Soviet Union and restore capitalism. The first trial was of 16 members of the so-called "Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre," held in August 1936, at which the chief defendants were Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, two of the most prominent former party leaders. ...

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Great Purge, Great Purge - Introduction,