This article is about a German officer in the Balkans Campaign of World War II. Maximilian von Weichs (November 12, 1881 in Dessau, September 27, 1954 at Castle Rösberg in Bornheim – Rösberg) was a German army officer (since 1943, Field Marshal) and army and army group commander during the Second World War. Weichs occurred [...]
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Maximilian von Weichs
December 20th, 2011 
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December 20th, 2011 admin This article is about a German officer in the Balkans Campaign of World War II. Wilhelm List (May 14th, 1880 in Oberkirchberg at Ulm, August 16th, 1971) was a German army officer (since 1940, Field Marshal) and during the Second World War commander of various armies and army groups. He was in the process generals [...]
Posted in Axis Commanders, Commanders, Nazi German Commanders Tags: field marshal, german army officer, world war ii No Comments »Operation Punishment
December 19th, 2011 admin This article is about a battle in the Balkans Campaign during World War II. The Operation Punishment referred to the bombing of Belgradeby surprise and without a declaration of war by the bombers of the Luftflotte (fleet) No. 4 of General Alexander Lohr of the Luftwaffe on Sunday 6 April, 1941, during the Second World [...]
Posted in 1941, Balkans Campaign, Campaigns of World War II, Timeline Tags: prince paul, world war ii, yugoslav capital No Comments »Invasion of Yugoslavia
December 19th, 2011 admin This article is about a battle in the Balkans Campaign of World War II. The invasion of Yugoslavia, carried out on 6 April, 1941 by Directive No. 25, plan Nazi occupation of the Balkan state drawn from OKW during World War II, for the historiography Yugoslavia, also called the War of April. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, [...]
Posted in 1941, Balkans Campaign, Campaigns of World War II, Timeline Tags: italian attack, world war ii, yugoslav government No Comments »Balkans Campaign
December 19th, 2011 admin This article is about a Campaign in the World War II. In the Balkan campaign, German National Socialist Reich attacked the Yugoslavia and Greece on 6 April, 1941. The invasion of the German Wehrmacht was supported of Italian and Hungarian troops. Germany on 17 April, capitulated the Yugoslav armed forces, Greece on 23 April. The [...]
Posted in 1940, 1941, Balkans Campaign, Campaigns of World War II, Timeline Tags: german invasion, german wehrmacht, lightning war, world war ii No Comments »King’s African Rifles
December 18th, 2011 admin This article is about a British army in the East African Campaign during World War II. The King’s African Rifles were a military body of the British colonial in East Africa. Founded in 1902, its body was finally disbanded only in the 1960s, when the last British colonies became independent nations in the area. The [...]
Francesco De Martini
December 18th, 2011 admin This article is about an Italian commander in the East African Campaign of World War II. Francesco De Martini (?- 1980) was an Italian military . Francesco de Martini was an Italian soldier. It was part of the column in 1936 occupied the town of Sardis during the Abyssinian War of Ethiopia. It gave a [...]
Amedeo Guillet
December 18th, 2011 admin This article is about an Italian commander in the East African Campaign of World War II. Amedeo Guillet, said Commander Devil, (Piacenza, 7 February, 1909 – Rome, 16 June, 2010), was an officer, warrior and diplomat Italian. He was born in a noble family of Piedmont and capuana source Savoy attended the Military Academy, from [...]
Dubats
December 15th, 2011 admin This article is about an Italian Army in the East African Campaign of World War II. Dubat was the name used by illegal armed gangs of Italian Royal Colonial Corps troops in Somalia from 1924 to 1941. The name comes from a Somali term meaning “white turbans” and this, in fact, was their headgear. On [...]
German Motorized Company
December 15th, 2011 admin This article is about an Itlian army in the East African Campaign during World War II. The German Motorized Company Volunteers in Eritrea (the official name of the Italian unit was Compagnia Autocarrata Tedesca) was a German volunteer association in the Italian armed forces in East Africain in the Second World War. With Italy entry [...]
