{"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": 9, "years": 8, "span": [1934, 1945], "span_label": ["1934 CE", "1945 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "red-army", "label": "Red Army", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "adolf-hitler", "label": "Adolf Hitler", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "nazi-germany", "label": "Nazi Germany", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "verona", "label": "Verona", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"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": 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", "text": "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", "text": "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"}}]}