Topic: German Federal Armed Forces

The Nazi Holocaust was a direct result of a conscious decision by the Nazi state to eliminate specific races and classes of people from German society. The Nazi government was attempting to build a healthy German people that would become nature's ...
Operation Barbarossa was the name applied to the German assault on the Soviet Union which began on the 22nd June 1941. A stark reminder that the German Army was expecting to complete the surrender of Russia within eight weeks was the fact ...

Great German Army

In the Great German Army of WW II, they used to categorise their officersinto 4 categories, based on two attributes - intelligence and hard work.Category I were intelligent and lazy officers. They were given Commands inthe field areas (hard areas like Kashmir ...
The Walther P-38 is a design classic and aesthetically pleasing, even to the untrained eye! Not unsurprisingly, the Walther P-38 was first produced as a service pistol for the German Army in 1938, as a cheaper replacement for the more expensive and ...

World War 1 1914-1918 WW1

78The Western Front during World War 1 stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss Frontier with France. Trench WarfareThe German Army (The Axis) In 1914 at the Outbreak of World War 1, the German Army was the strongest in Europe; Germany ...

Operation Barbarossa

The German Invasion of Russia achieved early operational successes because it employed the element of surprise. During the summer and autumn seasons, the German Army conquered most of the Russia and the Ukraine before their army advanced into the Crimean Peninsula in ...
When I was planning Road Trip 2010, which would be on the East Coast, I wanted to arrange a visit to the National Security Agency to talk about the latest technology (that it could talk about). Being about cryptology, there's no ...
The German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency (Das Abzeichen fuer Leistungen im Truppendienst) is one of the most prestigious foreign awards that can be worn on a U.S. Army uniform. It is an honor for foreign soldiers to receive the ...

Who Are The German Special Forces?

The German Special Forces are called the Kommando Spezialkrafte or the Special Forces Command KSK. The KSK is organized under the German Army Special Operations Division and is a special forces division that is modeled after the British SAS.Their HistoryThe KSK ...

Types of Military Airplanes

The identification of military airplanes is not limited to combat or non-combat types. There are various types of military aircraft, such as fighters, bombers and military transport aircraft. However, various types of military aircraft perform different functions. Categorizing them as simply combat ...