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Welsh soldier of fortune and military theorist. Osman Pazvantoğlu: 1758–1807 Ottoman soldier who led a mercenary army against Sultan Selim III. René Descartes: 1596–1650 Fought for both Protestant Maurice of Nassau and Catholic Maximilian I during the Thirty Years' War. Sebastian Peregrin Zwyer: 1597–1661 1612–1642 Milan Spain
German child soldiers in World War II (2 C, 8 P) E. Einsatzgruppen personnel (1 C, 78 P) G. ... German military leaders of World War II (12 C, 3 P)
German Army soldiers of World War II (134 P) Pages in category "German Army personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 290 total.
Josef Schulz was a German soldier. He was born in 1909 [citation needed] and lived in Barmen, [1] Wuppertal, [2] Germany. During World War II, he served as a corporal [1] [2] in the 714th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht. [3] He is officially recorded as having died during operations in Yugoslavia on 19 July 1941. [3]
The German Army (German: Heer, German: ⓘ; lit. ' army ') was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, [b] the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. [4]
Pages in category "German Army soldiers of World War II" The following 135 pages are in this category, out of 135 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The mercenary soldiers thus fell out of favour and was replaced by the professional soldier. To augment the army, major European powers like France, Britain, the Dutch Republic and Spain contracted regiments from Switzerland, the Southern Netherlands (modern day Belgium), and several smaller German states.
Public funding for a statue was rejected, however funds were raised to create a statue as a memorial. On November 4, 2008 a bronze statue was erected on a private property in Goirle in memory of Karl-Heinz Rosch. The statue is considered to be the only monument in the world to a German World War II soldier who was part of an occupying force. [3]