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The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, and was the premier weapons manufacturer for Germany in both world wars. During the time of the Third Reich , the Krupp company supported the Nazi regime and used slave labour , which was used by the Nazi Party to help carry ...
German rearmament. The Heinkel He 111, one of the technologically advanced aircraft that were designed and produced illegally in the 1930s as part of the clandestine German rearmament. German rearmament ( Aufrüstung, German pronunciation: [ˈaʊ̯fˌʀʏstʊŋ]) was a policy and practice of rearmament carried out by Germany from 1918 to 1939 ...
The Zündapp KS 750 is a World War II -era motorcycle and sidecar combination developed for the German Wehrmacht (armed forces) before and during the Second World War, by the German company Zündapp G.m.b.H. After entering service in 1941, over 18,000 were built through 1944, and deployed on all major German battlefronts, for use in a variety ...
Captured armoured cars and half-tracks. American M3 Scout Car. American M8 Greyhound - Panzerspähwagen M8 (a) British Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car. British Marmon-Herrington Humber. British Daimler Dingo Mk 1 - Le. Pz.Sp.Wg. Mk l 202 (e) British AEC Dorchester Armoured Bus.
West German rearmament. West Germany joins NATO: Walter Hallstein (left) and Konrad Adenauer (centre) at the NATO Conference in Paris in 1954. West German rearmament ( German: Wiederbewaffnung) began in the decades after World War II. Fears of another rise of German militarism caused the new military to operate within an alliance framework ...
The final battles of the European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel on 8 May 1945 ( VE Day) in Karlshorst, Berlin. After German leader Adolf Hitler 's suicide and handing over of power to grand admiral Karl Dönitz on the last day of April 1945 ...
Germany was given two months to surrender all prohibited war material. Disarmament began under the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission on 10 January 1920. The Allies created a list of war material that included flamethrowers, shells, rifles, grenades, armored cars, artillery, fuses and detonators. The list broadly included uniforms, field ...
The outlook for European automotive employment had been turning gloomy for several years prior to COVID-19, accelerated by a shift to EVs which has lessened the number of parts required to build a ...