Formed on October 15, 1935, the 1st Panzer Division initially included the 1st Schuetzen (Rifle) Brigade (1st Rifle Regiment and 1st Motorcycle Battalion) and the 1st Panzer Brigade (1st and 22n Panzer Regiments), as well as the 73rd Artillery (later Panzer Artillery) Regiment.and assorted divisional troops. The division consisted mainly of Thuringians, with significant numbers of Saxons and Prussians, and (later) with draftees from other parts of Germany. The bulk of its troops came from the 3rd (Motorized) Cavalry Division at Weimar and the II Motor Transport Demonstration Command...

Speech by Herr Hitler to the Reichstag on September 1, 1939 FOR months we have been suffering under the torture of a problem which the Versailles Diktat created-a problem which has deteriorated until it becomes intolerable for us. Danzig was and is a German city. The Corridor was and is German. Both these territories owe their cultural development exclusively to the German people. Danzig was separated from us, the Corridor was annexed by Poland. As in other German territories of the East, all German minorities living there have been ill-treated in the most distressing manner. More than...

IN World War II sea power reached the culmination of its influence on history. The greatest of air wars and the one which saw the most titanic battles of all time on land was also the greatest of naval wars -- not alone in the magnitude of naval operations but also in the degree to which those operations contributed to final victory. It could hardly have been otherwise in a war which was truly global, in which the pooling of resources of the great Allies depended upon their ability to traverse the sea, and in which American men and materials, including aircraft, hammered and defeated the...

Ofensiva italiana en Africa En 1935 el Ejercito Italiano contaba solamente con una fuerza de 20.000 hombres destacada en Libia, considerada para esa epoca adecuada a las necesidades de seguridad interna. Con ocasion de la guerra contra Etiopia, se trasladaron algunos contingentes mas, pero realmente no se hizo nada en labores de proveer dispositivos defensivos, no mejorar el apoyo logistico. En Enero de 1937 se decidio la creacion de un Mando Superior para Africa Septentrional, disponiendo de dos Cuerpos de Ejercito y cuatro divisiones. En 1938 se destaco un Cuerpo Expedicionario constituido...

Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class heavy cruiser (originally termed Panzerschiff or armoured ship, sometimes referred to as "pocket battleship") which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. The vessel was named after Admiral Maximilian von Spee, commander of the East Asia Squadron that fought the battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands in World War I. She was laid down at the Reichsmarinewerft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven in October 1932 and completed by January 1936. The ship was nominally under the 10,000 long tons (10,000 t) limitation on warship size imposed...

Berchtesgaden and the Anglo-French Plan With Nuremberg the crisis proper begins, though with lines tending to form differently from what might have been the case if the balance in London had not tipped in the afternoon of September 11 onto the side of caution and retreat. Poland still was on the fence; but Colonel Beck felt himself strengthened as against his pro-French and pro-British colleagues. Insistent demands began appearing in the Polish press that the final settlement in Czechoslovakia must not subject the Polish minority there to "discrimination" in comparison with the German...

Arado Ar 234 Blitz Desarrollo En 1940 los Ing Walter Blume y Hans Rebeski iniciaron el diseno de un avion destinado al reconocimiento que no estaria armado ya que volaria tan alto y tan rapido que en la practica ningun caza de su epoca podia alcanzarlo. Esto seria posible debido a que se utilizarian motores turbojet, que estaban en las etapas iniciales de desarrollo por parte de la BMW y la Junkers. En 1941 sometieron el diseno al Ministerio del Aire como Ar -234. El diseno consistia en un aeroplano de diseno extremadamente limpio, totalmente metalico, de cuerpo muy angosto, alas en posicion...

In a speech delivered on May 5, Beck rejected Hitler's proposals of April 28. At about the same time anti-German demonstrations took place in Thorn, Katowitz, Lodz and Posen (G 349-417). On May 12 the German community in Poland presented a respectful petition to President Moscicki reviewing the old complaints concerning church and school questions as well as the dismissal of German factory workers -- again with no result. A few days later the German Consul in Lodz reported that German workers had been driven out of certain factories by a Polish mob, that all German places of business and...