| Name |
Description |
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| Aeronautical |
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| Dornier Flugzeugwerke |
A German aircraft manufacturer founded in Friedrichshafen in 1914. The company produced many designs for both the civil and military markets. | 6 |
| Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG |
A German manufacturer of Civil and military aircraft before and during World War II. Notable for the Fw 190. | 6 |
| German 84th Infantry Division |
An infantry division of the German Army during WW2 deployed to France in 1944 to serve initially under the 15th Army of Army Group D. It was destroyed in the Falaise Pocket as part of the German defense against Operation Overlord. A second iteration was again destroyed at the Wesel bridgehead during Operation Varsity. | 1 |
| Heinkel Flugzeugwerke |
A German aircraft company noted for producing bomber aircraft (He 111) for the Luftwaffe in WW2. It also produced pioneering examples of successful liquid-fueled rockets and a turbojet aircraft. | 5 |
| Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG |
A major German aircraft manufacturer. During WW2 the company produced some of the most successful Luftwaffe planes. | 5 |
| Messerschmitt AG |
A German aircraft manufacturing corporation known for its WW2 fighter aircraft including the Bf 109 and Me 262. | 11 |
| Governmental |
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| Gestapo |
An abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, "Secret State Policequot; was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. Hermann Göring formed the unit in 1933. | 4 |
| Hitler Youth |
A youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany originating in 1922. From 1936 until 1945, it was the sole official boys' youth organisation in Germany and partially a paramilitary organisation. It was composed of the Hitler Youth proper for male youths aged 14 to 18, and the German Youngsters in the Hitler Youth for younger boys aged 10 to 14. | 1 |
| Schutzstaffel (SS) |
A major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Under Heinrich Himmler’s direction (1929–45), it grew into one of the most powerful organisations in the Third Reich. It was the foremost agency of surveillance and terror within Germany itself and the occupied territories in Europe. | 3 |
| Industrial |
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| Franz Clouth Rubber Works |
A German manufacturer of rubber products in Cologne, products that we were vital to the war industries of all countries during WW2. | 1 |
| Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG (IG Farben) |
A German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Formed in 1925 from a merger of six chemical companies. IG Farben scientists made fundamental contributions to all areas of chemistry and the pharmaceutical industry. | 1 |
| Maschinen Fabrik Augsburg Nurnberg Gesellschaft (M.A.N.) |
A vehicle and mechanical engineering group based in Munich. During WW2 their plant in Augsburg was a production facility for submarine diesel engines and their Nuremberg plant built the Panther main battle tanks. | 1 |
| Mauser |
A German arms manufacturer. Their line of bolt-action rifles and semi-automatic pistols has been produced since the 1870s for the German armed forces. | 1 |
| Merck Group |
A German multinational pharmaceutical, chemical and life sciences company headquartered in Darmstadt and founded in 1668. During WW2, it was manufacturing war products such as narcotics, vitamins, biocides and other chemicals. | 1 |
| Marine |
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| Blohm and Voss |
A German shipbuilding and engineering works that until WW2 specialised in shipbuilding including the Bismarck. It began to design and build aircraft for Deutsche Luft Hansa and the Luftwaffe including some noteworthy designs for large flying boats. | 1 |
| Bremer Vulkan AG |
A prominent German shipbuilding company located at the Weser river in Bremen-Vegesack. | 1 |
| Media |
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| Frankfurter Zeitung |
A German language newspaper that appeared from 1856 to 1943. In Nazi Germany it was considered the only mass publication not completely controlled by the Propaganda ministerium under Joseph Goebbels. | 1 |
| Germany Calling |
An English language propaganda radio programme, broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in the British Isles and North America during WW2, best known for the radio presenters jointly known as Lord Haw-Haw. It ceased broadcasting 30 April 1945, when Hamburg was overrun by the British Army. | 1 |
| Kieler Neueste Nachrichten |
A German language newspaper of Kiel founded in 1894 under the name 'General-Anzeiger for Schleswig-Holstein'. It came under the control of the publisher Gottlieb Paul Leonhardt in 1897 and was published until 1945. | 1 |
| Military - Air Force |
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| Luftwaffe |
The aerial warfare branch of the German Wehrmacht during World War 2 and commanded by Hermann Göring from 1935 to 1945. | 19 |
| Pik As (Ace of Spades) Squadron |
A German Luftwaffe fighter unit of WW2 with its origins going back to 1937, flying various models of the Messerschmitt Bf 109. It made a reputation for itself during the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain. | 1 |
| Military - Army |
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| Siegfried line |
Originally a line of defensive forts and tank defenses built by Germany as a section of the Hindenburg Line 1916–1917 in northern France during World War I. It more commonly refers to the similar WW2 defensive line. | 0 |
| Military - Army Corps |
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| Afrika Korps |
The German expeditionary force in Africa during the North African Campaign of WW2. The formation fought in Africa from March 1941 until its surrender in May 1943. The unit’s best known commander was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. | 3 |
| German IV Army Corps |
A corps level command of the German Army formed on 1 October 1934 in Dresden by the expansion of the 4th Infantry Division. It was destroyed in the Battle of Stalingrad on 31 January 1943, reformed on 20 July 1943 and redesignated as IV Panzer Corps on 10 October 1944. | 1 |
| Military - Army Divisions |
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| German 15th Panzer Division |
An armoured formation of the German Army in WW2. It was transported to Libya in April 1941, joining General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrikakorps with the 21st Panzer Division and the 90th Light Infantry Division. | 1 |
| German 21st Panzer Division |
A German armoured division best known for its role in the battles of the North African Campaign from 1941–1943 during WW2 when it was one of the two armoured divisions making up the Deutsches Afrikakorps along with the 15th Panzer Division. | 1 |
| German 5th Panzer Division |
An armoured formation of the German Army from 1938 to 1945. It fought in Poland, France, the Balkans and in Russia; first as part of Army Group Centre (1941–44) and then Army Group North. The division surrendered to the Russians in Gdańsk on 16 April 1945. | 1 |
| German 7th Panzer Division |
An elite armoured formation of the German Army in the Second World War. It participated in the Battle of France, the invasion of the Soviet Union, the occupation of Vichy France, and the defensive battles on the Eastern Front till the end of the war. | 1 |
| German 7th Parachute Division |
A airborne division of the German military active during WW2 from 1944 to 1945. It fought at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden and contained the 19th, 20th and 21st Parachute Regiments, and the 7th Parachute Artillery Regiment and surrendered at Oldenburg with the end of hostilities. | 1 |
| Hitler S.S. Division |
Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard. Initially the size of a brigade, it eventually grew into an elite division-sized unit participating in many campaigns. | 1 |
| Military - Army's |
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| German 15th Army |
A field army of the German army in WW2 activated in France in 1941 and tasked with occupation and defensive duties in the Pas de Calais area. It was withdrawn to the Netherlands after Operation Overlord and fought the Allies during Operation Market Garden in 1944. It suffered defeat against the First Canadian Army in the Battle of the Scheldt and was eventually pushed back over the Rur and Wurm rivers surrendering along the Ruhr river in 1945. | 1 |
| German Army |
The land forces component of the German armed forces (the Wehrmacht) from 1935 to 1945. | 6 |
| Military - Navy |
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| German Navy. Kriegsmarine |
The navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war Reichsmarine (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. | 3 |
| Germany Naval High Command (Oberkommando der Marine) |
Nazi Germany’s Naval High Command and the administrative and command authority of the Kriegsmarine, the Navy of Nazi Germany. Key WW2 Commanders-in-Chief were Grossadmiral Erich Raeder (1 Jun 1935 – 30 Jan 1943) and Grossadmiral Karl Dönitz (30 Jan 1943 – 1 May 1945). | 1 |
| Political |
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| Nazi Party |
The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, abbreviated NSDAP, commonly known in English as the Nazi Party, was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945. | 18 |
| Sporting |
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| Berlin Sportpalast |
A multi-purpose winter sport venue and meeting hall in the Schöneberg section of Berlin. It is most known for speeches and rallies that took place during the Third Reich, particularly Joseph Goebbels’ 1943 "Total War" speech | 2 |
