German invasion
Panzer divisions advance
A German invasion refers to a military incursion by Germany into another country's territory.
The phrase most often evokes World War II, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, France, the Soviet Union, and other nations: The German invasion of Poland triggered the war.
It may also refer to World War I campaigns or, loosely, to perceived cultural or economic encroachment.
- appeasement policySatisfying aggressors through concessions
- refugee crisesMass forced migration situations
- World War IISecond global military conflict
- battle plansMilitary operation designs
- Maginot LineFrench interwar border fortifications
Operation Barbarossa · resistance movements · Luftwaffe · air raids · Holocaust · civilian casualties · Wehrmacht · wartime propaganda · Eastern Front · V-E Day · propaganda campaigns · scorched earth policy · paratroopers · forced labor camps · rationing systems · war reparations · iron cross · occupied territories
- ScandinaviaNorway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland
- Eastern FrontStalingrad, Kursk, Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev
- France 1940Dunkirk, Maginot Line, Ardennes, panzer, Luftwaffe
- Norway WWIINazi occupation, home front, resistance fighters, commando raids, collaborators
- Western Fronttrenches, battlefields, Ypres, Somme, Verdun
- Polish Historypartitions, Piast dynasty, Pulaski, September 1939, Warsaw Ghetto
German invasionGerman surrender
1945 unconditional military submission
diplomatic mission · peace treaty · armistice · peace negotiation · Marshall Plan
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