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Invasions by Germany

  • Battle of FranceOn the 10th of May 1940, the Wehrmacht armies invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and parts of France. This campaign marked the end of a period…
  • German invasion of Belgium (1940)A pacifist rally gathered in Heysel, near Brussels, in 1936. This scene captured the deep social fracture within Belgium regarding its defense policy.
  • Operation PanzerfaustAdolf Hitler received word in October 1944 that Hungary's Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, was secretly negotiating his country's surrender to the advancing…
  • German invasion of GreeceIn the early hours of the 28th of October 1940, Italian Ambassador Emanuele Grazzi presented Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas with a three-hour ultimatum.
  • German invasion of the NetherlandsOn the 10th of April 1940, Britain and France repeated their request that the Dutch enter the war on their side. The government of the Netherlands refused…
  • AnschlussOn the 12th of March 1938, the German Army crossed into Austria without firing a single shot. This event marked the end of Austrian independence and the…
  • German invasion of Denmark (1940)On the 4th of April, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr and a man involved in the German resistance to Nazism, warned the Danes of an imminent…
  • German invasion of LuxembourgOn the 1st of September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, initiating World War II. This put Luxembourg's Grand Ducal government in a delicate situation.
  • Invasion of YugoslaviaOn the morning of the 27th of March 1941, a group of Yugoslav military officers executed a coup d'état in Belgrade. They forced Regent Prince Paul to resign…
  • Operation WeserübungBy the spring of 1939, the British Admiralty began to view Scandinavia as a potential theatre of war in a future conflict with Nazi Germany.
  • Battle of CreteHitler signed Directive 28 on the 25th of April 1941, ordering an invasion of Crete. The German Army High Command remained preoccupied with finalizing…
  • Operation AchseOn the 9th of May 1943, two days after the fall of Tunis to Allied forces, the German High Command informed the Italian Supreme Command that three new units…
  • Operation Sea LionAdolf Hitler issued a directive on the 16th of July 1940 that set in motion preparations for a landing operation against Britain.