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At the Moscow Victory Parade of 24 June 1945, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, there were a total of 200 captured German military standards and flags, majority being from the Wehrmacht. The standards (German: Standarten) were rectangular and swallowtailed, while flags (German: Fahnen) were larger and square.
The Honour Roll of the German Army (German: Ehrenblatt des Deutschen Heeres) was first issued in July 1941 after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.The roll recorded the names of soldiers who had distinguished themselves in combat in an exceptional way, [1] and was published in the Army Ordinance Gazette (Heeres-Verordnungsblatt). [2]
On 17 July, he was paraded through the streets of Moscow with 50,000 other captured German soldiers, in the aftermath of Bagration. [4] On 30 December 1945, a Soviet military tribunal convicted him of war crimes against the civilian populations of Bryansk [5] [6] and Bobruisk. [7] Hamann was sentenced to death and hanged on the same day. [3]
[2] The symbol became so ubiquitous that it was frequently typeset using runes rather than letters; during the Nazi period, an extra key was added to German typewriters to enable them to type the double-sig logo with a single keystroke [4] Eif: Zeal/enthusiasm The Eif rune is a rotated and reflected version of the ᛇ or Eihwaz rune.
The Waffen-SS (German: [ˈvafn̩ʔɛsˌʔɛs]; lit. ' Armed SS ') was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both German-occupied Europe and unoccupied lands. [3]
The Allies commenced legal proceedings against captured Nazis, establishing the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945. [393] The first war crimes trial of 24 prominent figures such as Göring, Albert Speer , Joachim von Ribbentrop , Alfred Rosenberg , Hans Frank, and Kaltenbrunner took place beginning in November 1945.
German, Prussian, and Austrian war ensigns, including those called "Reichskriegsflagge " The term Reichskriegsflagge (German: [ˈʁaɪçsˌkʁiːksflaɡə], lit. ' Imperial War Flag ') refers to several war flags and war ensigns used by the German armed forces in history. A total of eight different designs were used in 1848–1849 and between ...
Heinz Linge (23 March 1913 – 9 March 1980) was a German SS officer who served as a valet for the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, and became known for his close personal proximity to historical events.