1989 Event Germans begins demolishing Berlin Wall 1989 Event Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany 1989 Event East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czechoslovakia) 1988 Event 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel 1975 Event Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans 1949 Event East Germans constitution approved 1945 Event Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam 1944 Event Battle of Bastogne - U.S. General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans 1944 Event Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium 1944 Event Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded 1944 Event Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands 1944 Event Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy 1944 Event Germans raid Achterhuis, home of Anne Frank and family 1944 Event Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia 1944 Event Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans 1944 Event Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy 1943 Event Germans attack Jews in Denmark 1943 Event USAF bombs Germans in Troina 1943 Event 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje 1943 Event 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova 1942 Event Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front 1942 Event British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die 1941 Event USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war 1941 Event Germans launch attack on Moscow 1941 Event Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there 1941 Event Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas 1941 Event Germans made their last major air attack on Britain 1940 Event London's Waterloo Station bombed by Germans 1940 Event In WW II, Germans capture Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France 1939 Event Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance 1939 Event Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw 1938 Event Crystal Night - Germans break windows owned by Jews 1938 Event Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia 1938 Event Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government 1936 Event Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates 1931 Event 100,000 extreme-right Germans form "Harzburger Front" 1920 Death Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies 1918 Event Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions 1918 Event 7 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more 1918 Event Sergeant Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans 1918 Event Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line 1918 Event Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans 1916 Event French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun 1916 Event Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun 1916 Death Charles Fryatt, British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies 1916 Event Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 1915 Death Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II) 1915 Event Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed 1915 Event Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans 1914 Event Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits and Germans) 1914 Event Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels 1914 Event Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I 1914 Event Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I 1914 Event Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris 1914 Event Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians 1914 Event Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops 1914 Event Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans 1914 Event Lithuiana surrenders to Germans 1881 Event 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany 1851 Birthday Gerard Leman, born in Liege, Belgium, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War 1814 Event Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russians out of E Prussia 1592 Birthday John Eliot, St. Germans Cornwall, English MP/author 1241 Event Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans 451 Event Germans and Romans beat Atiila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields
