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- …1939German Reich (1935–1945)
- 1945-05-23No state flag (Allied occupation)
- simplified version (without arms)
Course of events
- 23 August 1939
Axis powers & allies
Nazi Germany (including annexed Austria and the Sudetenland).
- 8 May 1945
Under Allied occupation
Unconditional surrender; occupation by the four Allied powers.
Events involving this country
- 23 Aug 1939Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- 1 Sept 1939Invasion of Poland (September Campaign)
- 1 Sept 1939Battle of Westerplatte
- 3 Sept 1939Britain and France declare war on Germany
- 3 Sept 1939Battle of the Atlantic
- 7 Sept 1939Saar Offensive
- 9 Sept 1939Battle of the Bzura
- 9 Apr 1940German invasion of Denmark and Norway (Operation Weserübung)
- 9 Apr 1940Battles of Narvik
- 10 May 1940Battle of France
- 12 May 1940Battle of Sedan (1940)
- 14 May 1940Bombing of Rotterdam
- 26 May 1940Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo)
- 22 Jun 1940Armistice of 22 June 1940
- 10 Jul 1940Battle of Britain
- 30 Aug 1940Second Vienna Award
- 7 Sept 1940The Blitz
- 27 Sept 1940Tripartite Pact
- 14 Nov 1940Coventry Blitz
- 6 Apr 1941Invasion of Yugoslavia
- 6 Apr 1941German invasion of Greece
- 10 Apr 1941Siege of Tobruk
- 20 May 1941Battle of Crete
- 24 May 1941Last battle of the battleship Bismarck
- 22 Jun 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 25 Jun 1941Continuation War
- 10 Jul 1941Battle of Smolensk (1941)
- 23 Aug 1941Battle of Kiev (1941)
- 8 Sept 1941Siege of Leningrad
- 29 Sept 1941Babi Yar massacre
- 2 Oct 1941Battle of Moscow
- 30 Oct 1941Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)
- 18 Nov 1941Operation Crusader
- 11 Dec 1941Germany and Italy declare war on the United States
- 20 Jan 1942Wannsee Conference
- 17 Mar 1942Operation Reinhard — extermination camps begin operating
- 12 May 1942Second Battle of Kharkov
- 26 May 1942Battle of Gazala
- 27 May 1942Assassination of Heydrich and the reprisals (Lidice)
- 10 Jun 1942Lidice massacre
- 28 Jun 1942Case Blue — German summer offensive 1942
- 17 Jul 1942Battle of Stalingrad
- 19 Aug 1942Dieppe Raid (Operation Jubilee)
- 23 Oct 1942Second Battle of El Alamein
- 8 Nov 1942Operation Torch
- 17 Nov 1942Tunisian campaign
- 19 Apr 1943Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- 5 Jul 1943Battle of Kursk
- 10 Jul 1943Allied invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky)
- 24 Jul 1943Bombing of Hamburg (Operation Gomorrah)
- 2 Aug 1943Treblinka prisoner revolt
- 26 Aug 1943Battle of the Dnieper
- 3 Sept 1943Armistice of Cassibile — Italy leaves the Axis
- 9 Sept 1943Salerno landings (Operation Avalanche)
- 1 Oct 1943Rescue of the Danish Jews
- 13 Oct 1943Italy declares war on Germany
- 17 Jan 1944Battle of Monte Cassino
- 22 Jan 1944Battle of Anzio (Operation Shingle)
- 2 Feb 1944Battle of Narva (1944)
- 19 Mar 1944German occupation of Hungary (Operation Margarethe)
- 6 Jun 1944Normandy landings and Operation Overlord
- 10 Jun 1944Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
- 10 Jun 1944Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive
- 22 Jun 1944Operation Bagration
- 13 Jul 1944Lvov–Sandomierz offensive
- 1 Aug 1944Warsaw Uprising
- 12 Aug 1944Falaise pocket
- 15 Aug 1944Operation Dragoon — landings in southern France
- 19 Aug 1944Liberation of Paris
- 20 Aug 1944Jassy–Kishinev offensive
- 23 Aug 1944King Michael's coup — Romania changes sides
- 29 Aug 1944Slovak National Uprising
- 15 Sept 1944Belgrade offensive
- 17 Sept 1944Operation Market Garden
- 2 Oct 1944Battle of the Scheldt
- 16 Dec 1944Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes Offensive)
- 29 Dec 1944Siege of Budapest
- 12 Jan 1945Vistula–Oder offensive
- 13 Jan 1945East Prussian offensive
- 27 Jan 1945Liberation of Auschwitz
- 30 Jan 1945Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
- 4 Feb 1945Yalta Conference
- 13 Feb 1945Bombing of Dresden
- 7 Mar 1945Capture of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen
- 16 Mar 1945Vienna offensive
- 23 Mar 1945Operation Plunder — Rhine crossing at Wesel
- 1 Apr 1945Ruhr pocket
- 6 Apr 1945Battle of Königsberg
- 15 Apr 1945Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
- 16 Apr 1945Battle of Berlin
- 29 Apr 1945Liberation of Dachau
- 5 May 1945Prague uprising
- 7 May 1945German Instrument of Surrender — end of the war in Europe
- 17 Jul 1945Potsdam Conference
Data completeness: borders c. 1938, status at country level; occupation zones, annexations and front lines as approximate snapshots. Units and offensives: selected, incomplete sets; archive: only items with a confirmed licence, still being added.