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Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps ( German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). [1] Germany signed the Third Geneva Convention of 1929, which established norms relating to the treatment of prisoners of war. Article 10 required PoWs be lodged in adequately heated and lighted buildings where conditions ...
timeline_list_0_headline: World War I Ends; timeline_list_0_description: Britain, France, the US, and other allies defeat Germany, bringing an end to World War I, billed as “the war to end all ...
At the beginning of World War II, Iceland was a sovereign kingdom in personal union with Denmark, with King Christian X as head of state. Iceland officially remained neutral throughout World War II. However, the British invaded Iceland on 10 May 1940. [1] On 7 July 1941, the defence of Iceland was transferred from Britain to the United States ...
German cruiser. Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe was a light cruiser, the second member of the Königsberg class, and served from November 1929 to May 1938, and again from November 1939 to April 1940, seeing action in World War II. She was operated by two German navies, the Reichsmarine and the Kriegsmarine. She had two sister ships, Königsberg and Köln.
1934 - German pocket battleship "Admiral Scheer" completed. 1935 - Under the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, Germany was allowed to build a surface fleet up to 35% of British total tonnage. 1936 - German pocket battleship "Admiral Graf Spee" completed. 1938 - Germany draws up the major naval rearmament programme, the 'Z' plan, to bring the Navy ...
What major conferences were held during World War II?, website of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library; United States Army Center of Military History. Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941 -1942 [permanent dead link] Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943 -1944 Archived 2015-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
The remains of German town of Wesel after intensive Allied area bombing in 1945 near the end of World War II (a destruction percentage of 97% of all buildings). The aerial bombing of cities is an optional element of strategic bombing, which became widespread in warfare during World War I. The bombing of cities grew to a vast scale in World War ...
