The Battle of Ferbelin is not particularly well known. It was a small-scale conflict between the armies of a superpower of the time, Sweden, and a superpower-to-be, the Duchy of Brandenburg, the future Prussia. However, the battle had enormous political significance and not without reason June 18, 1
Helmuth Johann Ludwig, Count von Moltke, born May 25, 1848 in Gersdorf (Mecklenburg), died June 18, 1916 in Berlin, was a German soldier. He was the nephew of Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800-1891), a great Prussian military leader. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he served with the
The Requetes, also known as Navarreans, came from the homonymous Spanish province of Navarre, having behind them a heavy tradition of centuries as warriors. The word requet is of French origin and translates as hunting call . The hunters, by extension Reketes, had to present excellent combat act
In all the conquered areas, the Germans formed armed divisions and units mainly to fight the partisans. One of the worst was the 1st Albanian Division. Albania was occupied by the Italians in April 1939. After the occupation of Greece and Yugoslavia, Italian Albania expanded territorially to include