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1 day ago · The ( First) Slovak Republic ( Slovak: (Prvá) Slovenská republika ), otherwise known as the Slovak State (Slovak: Slovenský štát ), was a partially-recognized clerical fascist client state of Nazi Germany which existed between 14 March 1939 and 4 April 1945 in Central Europe. The Slovak part of Czechoslovakia declared independence with ...
22 hours ago · Germany: Forward: 1990-1993 84 30 Maurizio Neri Italy: Forward: 1991-1993 18 0 Giovanni Stroppa Italy: Midfielder: 1991-1993 50 5 Thomas Doll Germany: Midfielder: 1991-1994 64 9 Rufo Emiliano Verga Italy: Midfielder: 1991-1992 6 0 Giuseppe Favalli Italy: Defender: 1992–2004: 401: 6 Diego Fuser Italy: Midfielder: 1992–1998: 242: 42 Giuseppe ...
1 day ago · 13,000 m 3 /s (460,000 cu ft/s) [2] The Rhine [note 2] ( / raɪn / RYNE) [3] is one of the major European rivers. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, and Swiss-German borders. After that the Rhine defines much of the Franco-German border ...
22 hours ago · Background German advances from June to August 1941. Nazi Germany and its allies Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Italy invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. The Nazi leadership believed that war with its ideological enemy was inevitable and one reason for the war was the desire to acquire territory, called living space (), which Nazis believed was necessary for Germany's long-term survival.
3 days ago · Antony Beevor describes the Soviet rape of German women during the occupation of Germany as the "greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history", and has estimated that at least 1.4 million women were raped in East Prussia, Pomerania, and Silesia alone. He asserts that Soviet women and girls liberated from slave labor in Germany were also violated.
1 day ago · SS Cristobal (a cargo and passenger ship built by Maryland Steel, and launched in 1902 as SS Tremont) on August 3, 1914, was the first ship to transit the canal from ocean to ocean. [59] The construction of the canal was completed in 1914, 401 years after Panama was first crossed overland by the Europeans in Vasco Núñez de Balboa 's party of ...
1 day ago · 3 heavy tank battalions. The Battle for Caen (June to August 1944) is the name given to fighting between the British Second Army and the German Panzergruppe West in the Second World War for control of the city of Caen and its vicinity during the larger Battle of Normandy. The battles followed Operation Neptune, the Allied landings on the French ...
