{"slug": "wehrmacht", "label": "Wehrmacht", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128781", "qid": "Q128781", "description": "unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945", "entries": 12, "years": 10, "span": [1885, 1945], "span_label": ["1885 CE", "1945 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Nazi army"], "related": [{"slug": "red-army", "label": "Red Army", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "adolf-hitler", "label": "Adolf Hitler", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "world-war-ii", "label": "World War II", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "nazi-germany", "label": "Nazi Germany", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "verona", "label": "Verona", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "the-holocaust", "label": "The Holocaust", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "May 20", "text": "20 May – Alexander Löhr, General Commander in the South East of the Wehrmacht in World War II (died 1947).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360620141#Births", "title": "1885 in Romania", "revid": 1360620141, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1934, "year_label": "1934 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 8", "text": "August 8 – The Wehrmacht swears a personal oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372993239#July–August", "title": "1934", "revid": 1372993239, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1935, "year_label": "1935 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 21", "text": "May 21 – In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler announces the reintroduction of conscription to the Wehrmacht, in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370722923#May", "title": "1935", "revid": 1370722923, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 7", "text": "March 7 – In violation of the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Treaties, Nazi Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. Hitler and other Nazis later admit that the French army alone could have destroyed the Wehrmacht.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373216494#March–April", "title": "1936", "revid": 1373216494, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1938, "year_label": "1938 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 24", "text": "24 April – Eberhardt Bohnstedt, a Wehrmacht general, was appointed as director of the Salvadoran military school.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1244612309#April", "title": "1938 in El Salvador", "revid": 1244612309, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – Opening shots of World War II and invasion of Poland: At 4:45 Central European Time, under cover of darkness, the German WWI-era battleship Schleswig-Holstein quietly slips her moorings at her wharf in Danzig Harbor, drifts into the center of the channel, and commences firing on a Polish military installation on Westerplatte at the northeastern mouth of the port of the internationalized Free City of Danzig, beginning the Battle of Westerplatte and Battle of Danzig Bay. Polish soldiers defend there for 7 days. Five minutes previously, the bombing of Wieluń in the western part of Poland had commenced, beginning the Battle of the Border. Shock-troops of the German Wehrmacht begin crossing the border into Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372426050#September", "title": "1939", "revid": 1372426050, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 – WWII: A joint victory parade is staged by the Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk, at the end of the Invasion of Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372426050#September", "title": "1939", "revid": 1372426050, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 16", "text": "August 16 – The Holocaust: Units of the Wehrmacht and the Einsatzgruppen (as part of Operation Barbarossa) start killing Jewish children, signalling the start of the Jewish Genocide.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372706275#August", "title": "1941", "revid": 1372706275, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 14", "text": "July 14 – Germany introduces the Ostvolk Medal for Soviet personnel in the Wehrmacht.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372873908#July", "title": "1942", "revid": 1372873908, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 18", "text": "January 18 – WWII: Soviet officials announce that the Red Army has broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad as part of Operation Iskra, opening a narrow land corridor to the city. Georgy Zhukov is promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#January", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 12", "text": "July 12 – WWII: Main engagement of the Battle of Prokhorovka – The Wehrmacht and the Red Army fight to a draw in one of the largest tank battles in military history.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#July", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – Retreating German troops destroy all the bridges over the Adige in Verona, including the historic Ponte di Castelvecchio and Ponte Pietra.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371513862#April", "title": "1945", "revid": 1371513862, "section": "Events › April"}}]}