Word: wilhelm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...liquidation of the pocket, listed the German losses: 55,000 dead within the trap, 21,800 outside it; 18,000 taken prisoner; 430 planes wrecked; 625 tanks and 500 guns destroyed or taken. Some 3,000 officers managed to escape in transports. Left behind was the body of General Wilhelm Stemmermann, Commander in Chief...
...accounts at the time wrongly indicated-actually free the city. Until this month, German shells tore daily into Leningrad's brick-and-mortar flesh, and its defenders rode to the front in streetcars. More than a million had died of cold and hunger since Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's army first besieged the city in 1941. Last week, after their long torture, the survivors of Leningrad could hardly believe that the siege had ended. Already there was talk of making the city beautiful again. But on many a wall a sign still warned: "Citizens, this side...
...Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler and Chief Storm Trooper Wilhelm Schepmann, who ordered their men to attend church services on Christmas...
...straight-laced Manstein himself, such a betrayal may be acceptable. For like other Junkers he had been brought up on Junker Karl von Clausewitz's ageless lecture to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm...
...improvements on electrical devices made equipment obsolete so fast that the electrical companies sent him abroad for ten years, with a contract not to invent anything electrical during that time. Restless, he invented the machine gun (for which Queen Victoria knighted him). When he demonstrated it before the Kaiser, Wilhelm asked to try it out, swung it in a circle, almost killed the whole General Staff of the German Army...