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Glossary of German military terms. This is a list of words, terms, concepts, and slogans that have been or are used by the German military. Ranks and translations of nicknames for vehicles are included. Also included are some general terms from the German language found frequently in military jargon. Some terms are from the general German ...
3,363 aircrew. 2,265 aircraft (summer 1940 – May 1941) [ 3] The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and originated from the term Blitzkrieg, the German word meaning 'lightning war'. [ 4]
Süffig —a beverage that is especially light and sweet or palatable; only the latter meaning is connoted with German süffig. Tafelspitz —boiled veal or beef in broth, served with a mix of minced apples and horseradish. Weisslacker (also Bierkäse)—a type of cow's milk cheese. Wiener —a hot dog.
Tanks and mechanised infantry of the 24th Panzer Division advancing through Ukraine, June 1942, typifying fast-moving combined arms forces of classic blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg [a] is a word used to describe a combined arms surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations; together with artillery, air ...
Glossary of Nazi Germany. This is a list of words, terms, concepts and slogans of Nazi Germany used in the historiography covering the Nazi regime. Some words were coined by Adolf Hitler and other Nazi Party members. Other words and concepts were borrowed and appropriated, and other terms were already in use during the Weimar Republic.
Between 1933 and 1945, the organization of the Luftwaffe underwent several changes. Originally, the German military high command, for their air warfare forces, decided to use an organizational structure similar to the army and navy, treating the aviation branch as a strategic weapon of war. Later on, during the period of rapid rearmament, the ...
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary lists the German word verboten, defined as "forbidden by an authority". Other well known examples include words such as weltschmerz, mensch, rucksack, schadenfreude, kaput (t) and weltanschauung. Another important psychological concept is "Angst".
A telegraph code is one of the character encodings used to transmit information by telegraphy. Morse code is the best-known such code. Telegraphy usually refers to the electrical telegraph, but telegraph systems using the optical telegraph were in use before that. A code consists of a number of code points, each corresponding to a letter of the ...