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The following is the list of ambassadors and high commissioners of Malaysia. High commissioners represent member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and ambassadors represent other states. Note that some diplomats are accredited by, or to, more than one country.
Malaysia: December 4, 1977: killed in the deliberate crash of Malaysian Airline System Flight 653: Said Hammami: Palestinian Liberation Organization Representative to the United Kingdom: London United Kingdom: January 4, 1978: Abu Nidal Organization (alleged) Adolph Dubs: United States Ambassador to Afghanistan: Kabul Afghanistan: February 14, 1979
The German economist de:Bruno Gleitze from the German Institute for Economic Research estimated that included in the total of 7.1 million deaths by natural causes that there were 1,2 million excess deaths caused by an increase in mortality due to the harsh conditions in Germany during and after the war [151] In Allied occupied Germany the ...
The following is a list of ambassadors and high commissioners to Malaysia. High commissioners represent member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and ambassadors represent other states. Some diplomats are accredited by, or to, more than one country. They are styled "Tuan Yang Terutama", loosely translated as "His Excellency".
The Allies of World War II began to form in September 1939 when Poland was invaded and Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany.Except for Ireland, which remained neutral throughout the war, the Commonwealth Dominions (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa) all declared war alongside Great Britain but no other nations joined their cause.
During World War II, 14,059 American POWs died in enemy captivity throughout the war (12,935 held by Japan and 1,124 held by Germany). [341] During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in ...
Malaysia's foreign ministry started in 1956 - a year before the country's independence - when Malaysia's Father of Independence established its offices at the Sultan Abdul Samad Building in Kuala Lumpur. Then, it was one of only four ministries established by the late Tunku Abdul Rahman. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs started with a staff of ...
shot the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on 7 November 1938 in Paris Jewish: executed, location of death not known, possibly Gestapo-Prison Berlin-Moabit: Stefan Rowecki: 1895–1944: Polish: General, leader of the Armia Krajowa, journalist Polish resistance movement in World War II: executed, Warsaw: Stefan Starzyński: 1893–1943: Polish