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  The World at War - German Codenames
In 1935 the Fall Rot was a study to defend against a surprise attack by France while defending the borders against Czechoslovakia and Poland.
In 1940 it was the second part of the western campaign - after the destruction of the BEF and the northern army of France it was, together with Fall Braun, the attack on the rest of the French army which was still entrenched in the Maginot line.
In 1942 "Fall Blau" was the codename for the operations of Army Group South with the operational targets: Woronesh, Stalingrad, and Baku.
worldatwar.net /article/germancode/index.html   (1071 words)

  
 Marinestoßkompanie
On the 25.August 1939 the "Schleswig Holstein" ("SX") takes position at Neufahrwasser with the MSK hidden under deck.
The MSK should be in position for the attack about 1 1/2 hours before "Fall Weiß" north of the fortress Weichselmünde, about the height of the Möwenschanze.
At 18:35 the order for "Fall Weiß" arrives at "SX" All commanders are informed and get their orders for the attack.
chrito.users1.50megs.com /1939/sep/marinestosskompanie.htm   (1235 words)

  
 Briefe - Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss first met Robert Jungk in Prague, in 1937, and then Jungk's close friend (and former classmate), Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, in Zurich, in the fall of 1938.
Weiss' focus is more on his very personal concerns, on his life, and his struggle to establish himself as an artist.
Weiss is forthright, emotional, half cocky and half unsure in these letters.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/weissp/briefe.htm   (989 words)

  
 Achtung Panzer ! - Invasion of Poland (Fall Weiss)
Originally, Germany was to invade Poland in early hours of August 26th of 1939, but at 8:00pm on August 25th, Hitler postponed it.
Soviet invasion was part of Ribbentrop-Molotov pact signed on August 23rd of 1939, which included a non-aggression and trade agreement, and a secret protocol that provided for a German-Soviet partition of Poland and cleared the way for the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states.
German Panzer force as of September 1st of 1939 had 1445 PzKpfw I, 1223 PzKpfw II light tanks and 98 PzKpfw III, 211 PzKpfw IV medium tanks.
www.achtungpanzer.com /articles/polcamp.htm   (2527 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Polish September Campaign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Polish September Campaign (alternatively refered to as the German plan Fall Weiss) refers to the conquest of Poland by the armies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and a small contingent of Slovak forces.
In the meantime Poland fulfilling her alliance obligations did not surrender in 1939, but rather set up a government-in-exile (Polish Government in Exile) in France (later in United Kingdom) connected to the extensive underground civil and military organisation (Polish Secret State) as legal successors to their pre-1939 government.
In 1939, Polish main fighter, the PZL P.11, designed in early-1930s, was becoming obsolete, the slightly better PZL P.24 were used solely for export and PZL P.50s, which were supposed to have better parameters then German modern fighters, were still on the drawing board.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Polish_September_Campaign   (3365 words)

  
 THE HOLOCAUST PROJECT - Timebase 1939
1939 January-February For the tenth anniversary of the Lateran Treaty, Pope Pius XI drafts a discourse that is said to have condemned totalitarianism in the strongest terms.
1939 February For the tenth anniversary of the Lateran Treaty, Pope Pius XI drafts a discourse that is said to have condemned totalitarianism in the strongest terms.
1939 September 12 Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr, protests to General Keitel that extensive shootings are planned in Poland, and that the nobility and intelligentsia are to be exterminated.
www.humanitas-international.org /holocaust/1939tbse.htm   (12237 words)

  
 The Campaign in Poland September 1 - October 1, 1939
The world in August 1939 was a world that held its breath.
Actually, in a carefully planned and highly mobile attack codenamed Fall Weiss (Case White) planned by Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch, German land, sea, and air forces were moving rapidly into Poland.
Poland’s army in 1939 was totally unprepared for the new warfare it found itself in.
www.worldwar2database.com /html/poland.htm   (681 words)

  
 Fall Weiß - The Fall of Poland
In September 1939 Germany shocked the world with its lightning invasion and rapid destruction of Poland.
In March of 1939 immediately after the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, Hitler told Colonel General Keitel, chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces and Colonel General von Brauchitsch, commander in chief of the Army, that the time had come to settle the Polish problem by military means.
In July 1939 under the fiction of conducting summer maneuvers, strong German forces moved into assembly areas near the Polish Frontier.
worldatwar.net /wars/ww2/poland39   (1984 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: imt/nca/nca-02/nca-02-16-responsibility-14-03
This document was a directive for the invasion of Poland (Fall Weiss) (C- 126).
This was merely a covering letter on operational directions for the precautionary employment of U-boats in the Atlantic in the event that the intention to [Page 819] carry out Fall Weiss remained unchanged.
The chart shows the approximate disposition of submarines ordered for 3 September 1939, and cannot be guaranteed accurate in every detail, as the file of captured orders are clearly not complete and some of the submarines shown apparently had received orders at sea on or about September 3 to move to new operational areas.
www.nizkor.org /ftp.py?imt/nca/nca-02/nca-02-16-responsibility-14-03   (668 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : Judgment : Raeder
Raeder received directives on " Fall Gruen " and the directives on " Fall Weiss " beginning with that of 3rd April, 1939, the latter directed the Navy to support the Army by intervention from the sea.
Despite Hitler's desire, as shown by his directive of October, 1939, to keep Scandinavia neutral, the Navy examined the advantages of naval bases there as early as October.
A questionnaire, dated 3rd October, 1939, which sought comments on the desirability of such bases, was circulated within SKL.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/judraede.htm   (982 words)

  
 #764 - Open Source of Freedom - The Imperialist Gesticulations before 1939
1939 August 10 Alfred Naujocks, a young SS secret-service veteran and member of the SD since its founding in 1934, is personally ordered by Reinhard Heydrich to fake a Polish attack on the radio station at Gleiwitz near the Polish border.
1939 August 31 At half past noon, Hitler issues Directive # 1 for the conduct of the war: (1) Now that all the political possibilities of disposing by peaceful means of a situation which is intolerable for Germany are exhausted, I have determined on a solution by force.
1939 August 31 SS Sturmbannfuehrer Alfred Helmut Naujocks is said to have received the code words "Grandmama dead," thus ending a 14 day wait at the German radio station at Gleiwitz, where he and Gestapo head Heinrich Mueller are to carry out a mock attack.
members.tripod.com /ksf8/imperialism_before_1939.htm   (5060 words)

  
 Polish Campaign 1939 - Fall Weiss
The "Polish Campaign 1939" is the biggest WWW site devoted to the defensive war among Poland and a united power of nazi Germany and communist Soviet Union in 1939.
The biggest part of the "Polish Campaign 1939" are descriptions of the most important battles and interesting episodes.
Kampania Wrześniowa 1939 Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Mapa serwisu
www.1939.pl /english.htm   (122 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
January 2 - End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California.
November 4 - World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/1939.html   (1688 words)

  
 The Rise and Fall of American Psychosomatic Medicine
It is about the dynamics of the rise and fall of psychosomatic medicine as both a part of and a reaction to the frequently changing shape of twentieth century American medicine.
And there were related publications by leading, biomedically-oriented clinical investigators — Harvard’s brilliant Soma Weiss is a good example — that explored such topics as “The Interaction Between Emotional States and the Cardiovascular System in Health and Disease,” the title of one of Weiss’ papers in the thirties.
So, in 1939, an exciting new medical field had come into being in America, and everything seemed to be working to guarantee it a limitless future.
human-nature.com /free-associations/riseandfall.html   (6888 words)

  
 Wound Badge 1939
These are referred to as “Spanish Type” or 1939 1st Type, but they are not to be confused with the Condor Legion Wound Badge.
A few months after Operation Fall Weiss began the 1939 Wound Badge 2nd type was available and started to be presented.
This version, very similar to its predecessors, was oval with pebbling on the background plate and featured an M35 helmet with a mobile swastika on it.
www.wehrmacht-awards.com /wound_badges/1939.htm   (686 words)

  
 Blitzkrieg in Poland
In March, 1939, he declared that the non aggression pact signed in 1934 was void and that the issue of ownership of Danzig had to be dealt with.
On 23rd August 1939 the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was agreed.
Unknown to the bemused outside world, this agreement contained a clause that agreed to the partitioning of Poland between the two powers in the event of a war in Poland.
www.schoolshistory.org.uk /EuropeatWar/blitzkrieg_poland.htm   (366 words)

  
 German Invasion of Poland - September 1939
An article about the various international dyplomatic and militrary moves and developments that took place in the Fall of 1939 and were occasioned by the German and then Soviet invasions of Poland.
An personal account of the was and other events of the Fall of 1939 as experienced by a youngster living in the far southeastern region of Poland; the first chapter of Topolski's 2001 book Withoutvodka
The first half is devoted to the events of 1939 in Poland, the rest to the contributions of the Polish Armed forces to the Allied war effort in the period 1940-45
info-poland.buffalo.edu /web/history/WWII/1939/link.shtml   (333 words)

  
 Fall Weiß, 1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The total force involved in the attack was 40 infantry divisions (of which 5 were motorized), 11 Panzer divisions (of which 5 were light divisions), 6 mountain divisions and 3 independant brigades.
If a single image dominates the popular perception of the Polish campaign of 1939, it is the scene of Polish cavalry bravely charging the Panzers with their lances.
Yet such myths have also been embraced by the Poles themselves as symbols of their wartime gallantry, achieving a cultural reconance in spite of their variance with the historical record.
www.panzerworld.net /fallweiss.html   (882 words)

  
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After rolling the die, the combat result is read in the column number X of the section marked with the ratio 3:1.
In accordance with [9.47] the amount of losses is found on the Losses Table.
Scenario 3 — Northern Mazovia 1.IX —13.IX 1939 Initial placement of units: Poles: In this scenario Polish units are placed according to initial placement of units in scenario 1.
grognard.com /info1/mlawa1939.doc   (8543 words)

  
 International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 1, p. 315   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Raeder received directives on "Fall Grün" and the directives on "Fall Weiss" beginning with that of 3 April 1939; the latter directed the Navy to support the Army by intervention from the sea.
He was also one of the few chief leaders present at the meeting of 23 May 1939.
The conception of the invasion of Norway first arose in the mind of Raeder and not that of Hitler.
www.holocaust-history.org /works/imt/01/htm/t315.htm   (402 words)

  
 Netwings File Library > CFS2 Missions > CFS2 Campaigns
September War 1939 is a group effort featuring the work of Robin, Eric of AOL, Steve Seybolt, and Kevin Bacon.
Fall Weiss, The enhancement pack for "September War 1939" campaign for CFS2 by Robin (robin100@poczta.fm).Original campaign made by Kevin Bacon, Eric, Steve Seybolt and Robin.
This enhancement pack for "September War 1939" is made up of 20 missions taking place in September 1939 and flown from the German side.
www.netwings.org /library/CFS2_Missions/CFS2_Campaigns   (850 words)

  
 Fall Wiess
Hitler’s bloodless conquests came to an end on September 1, 1939 when Poland refused his demands and became the FIRST TO FIGHT.
Fall Weiss is a re-creation of the German blitzkrieg invasion of Poland in September 1939.
• The soviets did not intervene until after the fall of Warsaw –; I have made this the trigger for their release.
www.ssg.com.au /Run5/scenarios/FallWeiss.htm   (275 words)

  
 Hearts of Iron 2 Doomsday [DOOMSDAY MAC] - £19.95 : Deliver2Mac
In addition to the four grand campaigns (1936, 1939, 1941 and 1944) of the original game, one extra scenario (1945) has been added.
Fall Weiss — Germany invades Poland, marking the beginning of World War II.
Fall Gelb — The German invasion of France.
www.deliver2mac.com /index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=234   (499 words)

  
 Judgment at Nuremberg: Erich Raeder
In 1928, he became Chief of Naval Command and in 1935 Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine (OKM); in 1939 Hitler made him Gross-Admiral.
Raeder received directives on "Fall Gruen" and the directives on "Fall Weiss" beginning with that of 3rd April, 1939, the latter directed the Navy to support the Army by intervention from the sea.
The "Athenia," an unarmed British passenger liner, was sunk on 3rd September, 1939, while outward bound to America.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/JudgeRaeder.html   (983 words)

  
 Warfare HQ Downloads - Fall Weiss 1939
After staging a number of false provocations (Operation Himmler), on 1 September 1939, 4:45, the german battleship Schleswig-Holstein began taking the Polish enclave Westerplatte in Gdansk (Danzig) under fire.
United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany on 3 Sept., but were unable to offer any real aid to their ally.
Poland, fulfiling her alliance with them, had not surrendered in 1939 - there was Polish Government-in-Exile and underground civil authorities, legal successors to pre-1939 government and the Poles continued to be an extremely restive population under Nazi rule.
www.warfarehq.com /archives/showthread.php?t=411&highlight=poland   (803 words)

  
 Dan Halutz: Target Civilians in Retribution
Not unlike the Ordungspolizei and Wehrmacht in Eastern Europe, the Israeli military has signaled its desire to take collective punishment to a new and horrific level, but then, since few complain and the corporate media cheers them on, this should be expected.
Dan Halutz appears to be a modern Erich von dem Bach, SS-Obergruppenführer, responsible for reprisal actions against partisans (terrorists, of course) and the shooting of POWs during the September Campaign (Fall Weiß), or invasion of Poland and Eastern Europe in 1939.
In addition to slaughtering the resistance, von dem Bach was tasked with “mass resettlements and the confiscation of private property.
www.prisonplanet.com /articles/july2006/250706Retribution.htm   (252 words)

  
 Black Wound Badge 1939
The topic of Imperial Wound Badges is a subject to be studied in itself, and what follows is obviously a brief summary as it relates to the 1939 issue.
Still on April 20, 1939, after the annexation of Austria, the Sudetenland, and Memel, the Ministry of interior issued a declaration stating that all those who served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and were wounded in action during World War I would also be able to receive the award.
Upon their return to Germany after the victory of the forces guided by Gen. Franco, however, Condor Legion, or Spanish Wound Badge, was established on May 22, 1939.
www.angelfire.com /nj/ww2/woundbadge.html   (1418 words)

  
 Pogonowski on Jedwabne
In 1939 Poland again decisively shaped world's history, as Germany and Japan had signed the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1936 and Japan attacked the USSR in 1938.
The Polish refusal in January 1939 to join the Anti-Comintern Pact derailed Hitler's plans and caused him to lose his chance to join Japan in the attack on the USSR.
Hitler signed Fall Weiss plan on April 11 and ordered the attack on Poland on September 1, 1939.
www.pacwashmetrodiv.org /events/jedwabne/pogonowski.text.htm   (2941 words)

  
 Keitel Nuremberg Tribunal Judgment, 1946
Keitel was present on 23rd May, 1939, when Hitler announced his decision " to attack Poland at the first suitable opportunity." Already he had signed the directive requiring the Wehrmacht to submit its " Fall Weiss " timetable to OKW by 1st May.
Lahousen testified that Keitel told him on 12th September, 1939, while aboard Hitler's headquarters train, that the Polish intelligentsia, nobility and Jews were to be liquidated.
On 20th October, Hitler told Keitel the intelligentsia would be prevented from forming a ruling class, the standard of living would remain low, and Poland would be used only for labour forces.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/keitel2.htm   (1016 words)

  
 The Roaring Twenties (1939)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
At the start newsreel footage takes the audience back to the end of World War I, showing Presidents and events up to Wilson (who, curiously enough, is shown by an actor playing the President, not as part of an old film).
The death of Cagney on the steps of a church is based on the death of Hymie Weiss, a Chicago gangster rival of Capone who was killed that way in 1927.
It was too good a death to not use in a gangster film, as it seems more symbolic than it was in real life (it does remind us of how Cagney, for all his good intentions, came up short due to his profession in violence).
us.imdb.com /Title?0031867   (931 words)

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