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Operation Hannover or Operation Hanover (sources vary) was a German operation in April–June 1942 aimed at eliminating Soviet partisans, airborne troops and encircling Red Army soldiers near Vyazma (Smolensk Oblast). The operation was a complete success for the Germans.
The Deurag-Nerag refineries at the end of the war In 1952 Aegidien Church became a war memorial dedicated to victims of war and of violence.. Before the war Hanover was the thirteenth largest city in Germany and Austria, with 471,000 inhabitants – on average this fell to 287,000 during the war (mainly due to evacuations) and in May 1945 was down to 217,000.
WWII map of Hanover in 1943. ... heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1943, and reconstructed after World War II. ... Vietnam: 2,750
September: Bombing of Hanover in World War II by Allied forces begins. Population: 472,527. [4] 1942 - Ludwig Hoffmeister becomes Staatskommissare. 1944 24 June: Hanover-Limmer concentration camp begins operating. [24] 26 June: Hanover-Misburg subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp established.
The Vietnamese famine of 1944–45 (Vietnamese: Nạn đói Ất Dậu – famine of the Ất Dậu Year or Nạn đói năm 45 – the 1945 famine, due to most of the deaths occurring in 1945) was a famine that occurred in northern Vietnam in French Indochina during World War II from October 1944 to late 1945, which at the time was under Japanese occupation from 1940 with Vichy France as an ...
The Vietnam Military History Museum, set up on 17 July 1956, is one of seven national museums in Vietnam. It covers 12,800 m 2. It was situated in central Hanoi, opposite the Lenin Park and near the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. On 1 November 2024, the museum opened at its new location in Nam Tu Liem district, in western Hanoi. [2] [3]
The Việt Minh military force that had taken control of Hanoi consisted of about 200 men. The Việt Minh army numbered about 1,200 trained men and hundreds of thousands of militia, men and women, most of them without firearms. [39] 2 September. Japan signed the instrument of surrender in Tokyo Bay ending World War II.
The 1945–1946 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom [4] by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến) [5] [6] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely British-Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement ...