List of Axis named operations in the European Theatre
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The list of Axis named operations in the European Theatre represents those military operations that received a codename, predominantly from the Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht – from , to defend and , the might/power) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe .-Origin and use of the term:...

 commands. It does not represent all operations that were carried out by the Axis powers, or their allies in the European Theatre during the Second World War
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. Although named operations, the entries represent activities that spanned the entire theatre or large parts of it, multi-year campaigns, battles, engagements and even combat that resulted in relatively small actions by armed forces.

Pre-war operations

  • Fall Blau 1935 - German defence planning on the eastern border, simultaneously with Fall Rot
  • Fall Rot 1935 - German defence planning on the western border, simultaneously with Fall Blau
  • Operation Feuerzauber 1936-1939 - German transfer of weapons and personnel to Francisco Franco
    Francisco Franco
    Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...

    's forces in the Spanish Civil War
    Spanish Civil War
    The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

  • Operation Ursula 1936-1939 - German submarine operation in support of Francisco Franco's naval forces during the Spanish Civil War
  • Operation Bodden 1937-1943 - German Abwehr
    Abwehr
    The Abwehr was a German military intelligence organisation from 1921 to 1944. The term Abwehr was used as a concession to Allied demands that Germany's post-World War I intelligence activities be for "defensive" purposes only...

     intelligence gathering system in Spain
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     and Morocco
    Morocco
    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

  • Fall Otto 1937 - German plan to occupy Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

  • Fall Richard 1937 - German contingency planning for Soviet takeover of Spain
  • Fall Rot 1937 - German planned invasion of Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

  • Operation Rügen 1937 - German bombing of Guernica
    Bombing of Guernica
    The bombing of Guernica was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica, Spain, causing widespread destruction and civilian deaths, during the Spanish Civil War...

    , Spain
  • Fall Blau 1938 - German air force
    Luftwaffe
    Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....

     research; later renamed Planstudie 39
  • Fall Grün
    Fall Grün
    Fall Grün was a pre-World War II German plan for an aggressive war against Czechoslovakia. The plan was first drafted late in 1937, then revised as the military situation and requirements changed...

     1938 - German plan for invasion of Czechoslovakia
  • Operation Otto 1938 - German plan for the annexation
    Anschluss
    The Anschluss , also known as the ', was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938....

     of Austria

1939

  • Operation A-Bewegung 1939 - German preparation for the invasion of Poland
    Invasion of Poland (1939)
    The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe...

    ; part of Fall Weiss
  • Operation Dirschau 1939 - German operation to safeguard the rail bridge at Tczew
    Tczew
    Tczew is a town on the Vistula River in Eastern Pomerania, Kociewie, northern Poland with 60,279 inhabitants . It is an important railway junction with a classification yard dating to the Prussian Eastern Railway...

    , Poland during the invasion
  • Operation Himmler
    Operation Himmler
    Operation Himmler was a Nazi Germany false flag project to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany, which was subsequently used by Nazi propaganda to justify the invasion of Poland...

     1939 - German staged attacks in Poland to justify invasion; part of Fall Weiss
  • Operation Nordwest 1939 - German study for a potential invasion of Britain; parts of Operation Nordwest were integrated into Operation Seelöwe
  • Operation Ost 1939 - German operation in Southern Poland near the border with Czechoslovakia
  • Plan Z
    Plan Z
    Plan Z was the name given to the planned re-equipment and expansion of the Nazi German Navy ordered by Adolf Hitler on January 27, 1939...

     1939 - German plan to expand the Kriegsmarine
    Kriegsmarine
    The Kriegsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Nazi regime . It superseded the Kaiserliche Marine of World War I and the post-war Reichsmarine. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches of the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany.The Kriegsmarine grew rapidly...

     to match the strength of the British Royal Navy
    Royal Navy
    The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

  • Planstudie 39 1939 - German air force research
  • Fall Weiss 1939 - German invasion of Poland
  • Fall Rot 1939 - German bombing of Wielun
    Bombing of Wielun
    The bombing of Wieluń refers to the bombing of the Polish town of Wieluń by the German Luftwaffe on 1 September 1939. The Luftwaffe started bombing Wielun at 4:40 am, five minutes before the shelling of Westerplatte, which has traditionally been considered the beginning of World War II. It is...

    , Poland; part of Fall Weiss
  • Operation Sonderaktion Krakau 1939 - German operation to murder members of the intelligentsia at universities in Kraków
    Kraków
    Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

    , Poland
  • Operation Tannenberg
    Operation Tannenberg
    Operation Tannenberg was the codename for one of the extermination actions directed at the Polish people during World War II, part of the Generalplan Ost...

     1939 - German plan to exterminate Polish intelligentsia
  • Operation Wasserkante 1939 - German aerial bombing of Warsaw, Poland
  • Operation Blitzableiter 1939-1945 - German bacteriological weapons research

1940

  • Operation Mittelmeer 1940-1941 - German reinforcement of the Italian Regia Aeronautica
    Regia Aeronautica
    The Italian Royal Air Force was the name of the air force of the Kingdom of Italy. It was established as a service independent of the Royal Italian Army from 1923 until 1946...

     in the Mediterranean Sea
    Mediterranean Sea
    The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

  • Operation Juno
    Operation Juno
    Operation Juno was a German naval offensive late in the Norwegian Campaign. The German ships involved were the battlecruisers and , the heavy cruiser and the destroyers Karl Galster, Hans Lody, Erich Steinbrinck and Hermann Schoemann....

     1940 - German naval operation against British warships off Narvik
    Narvik
    is the third largest city and municipality in Nordland county, Norway by population. Narvik is located on the shores of the Narvik Fjord . The municipality is part of the Ofoten traditional region of North Norway, inside the arctic circle...

    , Norway
  • Operation Weserübung
    Operation Weserübung
    Operation Weserübung was the code name for Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway during the Second World War and the opening operation of the Norwegian Campaign...

     1940 - German invasion of Denmark and Norway
  • Operation Weserübung Nord 1940 - German attack on Trondheim
    Trondheim
    Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

     and Narvik, Norway; part of Operation Weserübung
  • Operation Weserübung Sud 1940 - German attack on Bergen
    Bergen
    Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

    , Kristiansand
    Kristiansand
    -History:As indicated by archeological findings in the city, the Kristiansand area has been settled at least since 400 AD. A royal farm is known to have been situated on Oddernes as early as 800, and the first church was built around 1040...

    , and Oslo
    Oslo
    Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

    , Norway; part of Operation Weserübung
  • Operation Karlshafen 1940 - German attack against Kristiansand
    Kristiansand
    -History:As indicated by archeological findings in the city, the Kristiansand area has been settled at least since 400 AD. A royal farm is known to have been situated on Oddernes as early as 800, and the first church was built around 1040...

    , Norway; part of Operation Weserübung
  • Operation Naumburg 1940 - German landing at Narvik, Norway
  • Operation Nienburg 1940 - German action at Narvik, Norway; part of Operation Weserübung
  • Operation Nord 1940 - German planned invasion of Denmark and Norway; later renamed to Operation Weserübung
  • Operation Nordmark 1940 - German attacks on Allied North Sea convoys between Britain and Scandinavia
  • Operation Oldenburg 1940 - German attack on Oslo
    Oslo
    Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

    , Norway; part of Operation Weserübung
  • Operation Stadthagen 1940 - German attack on Stavanger
    Stavanger
    Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

    , Norway; part of Operation Weserübung
  • Operation Wildente 1940 - German naval and air operation in Trondheim, Norway
  • Operation Altenbeken 1940 - German attack on Adalsnes, Norway
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

    ; part of Operation Weserübung
  • Operation Altona 1940 - German attack on Arendal
    Arendal
    is a town and municipality in the county of Aust-Agder, Norway. Arendal belongs to the traditional region of Sørlandet.The town of Arendal is the administrative center the municipality and also of Aust-Agder county...

    , Norway; part of Operation Weserübung
  • Operation Biene 1940 - German attack on Alsten Island and Sandnessjøen
    Sandnessjøen
    Sandnessjøen is the centre of the municipality of Alstahaug in the county of Nordland, Norway, with a population of over 9,000. It was made a township in 1788....

    , Norway; part of Operation Weserübung
  • Operation Bremen 1940 - German attack in Norway; part of Operation Weserübung
  • Operation Büffel
    Operation Büffel
    During World War II the name Büffel Bewegung was given to a series of local retreats conducted by the German Army on the Russian Front during the period 1–22 March 1943. This movement eliminated the Rzhev Salient and shortened the front by 230 kilometers, releasing twenty-one divisions for use...

     1940 - German air operation to relieve troops in Narvik
    Narvik
    is the third largest city and municipality in Nordland county, Norway by population. Narvik is located on the shores of the Narvik Fjord . The municipality is part of the Ofoten traditional region of North Norway, inside the arctic circle...

    , Norway
  • Operation Hartmut 1940 - German submarine operations in Norwegian territorial waters
    Territorial waters
    Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most from the baseline of a coastal state...

  • Fall Rot 1940 - German invasion of France
  • Operation Gneisenau 1940 - German diversionary attack on two bridges on the French-German border; part of Fall Grün
  • Operation Granit 1940 - German airborne action on Belgian Fort Eben-Emael
    Fort Eben-Emael
    Fort Eben-Emael is an inactive Belgian fortress located between Liège and Maastricht, on the Belgian-Dutch border, near the Albert Canal, and designed to defend Belgium from a German attack across the narrow belt of Dutch territory in the region. Constructed in 1931–1935, it was reputed to be...

  • Operation Stahl 1940 - German commando operation to occupy a bridge near Veldwezelt, Belgium
  • Operation Tiger
    Operation Tiger
    Operation Tiger, a 1994 military operation in the War in Bosnia and HerzegovinaOperation Tiger may also refer to:* Operation Tiger , the successful German assault on the French Fortified Sector of the Sarre during the Battle of France in 1940...

     1940 - German offensive on the northern sector of the Maginot Line; part of Fall Rot
  • Operation Trojanisches Pferd 1940 - German operation to secure the bridge near Nijmegen in the Netherlands
  • Operation Trondheim 1940 - German movement across the Albert Canal
    Albert Canal
    The Albert Canal is a canal located in northeastern Belgium, named after King Albert I of Belgium. It connects the major cities Antwerp and Liège and the Meuse and Scheldt rivers. It has a depth of , a free height of and a total length of...

     against Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium
  • Operation Scharnhorst 1940 - German deceptive attack in the Saarbrücken region; part of Fall Grün
  • Fall Grün
    Fall Grün
    Fall Grün was a pre-World War II German plan for an aggressive war against Czechoslovakia. The plan was first drafted late in 1937, then revised as the military situation and requirements changed...

     1940 - German attacks against the Maginot Line on the French-German border in conjunction with Fall Braun
  • Fall Gelb 1940 - German invasion of the Low Countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
    Luxembourg
    Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

  • Operation N 1940 - German airborne operation at Namur
    Namur (city)
    Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, in southern Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia....

    , Belgium
  • Operation Nebelübung 1940 - German planned invasion of Liège
    Liège
    Liège is a major city and municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège, of which it is the economic capital, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium....

    , Belgium; part of Fall Gelb
  • Operation Niwi 1940 - German troop deployment in Belgium; part of Fall Gelb
  • Operation B 1940 - German attack on the Maginot Line
    Maginot Line
    The Maginot Line , named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defences, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in light of its experience in World War I,...

     on the German-French border; part of Fall Rot
  • Fall Braun 1940 - German attacks against the Maginot Line on the French-German border in conjunction with Fall Grün
  • Operation Eisen 1940 - German commando operation to occupy the bridge over the Albert Canal
    Albert Canal
    The Albert Canal is a canal located in northeastern Belgium, named after King Albert I of Belgium. It connects the major cities Antwerp and Liège and the Meuse and Scheldt rivers. It has a depth of , a free height of and a total length of...

     in Belgium
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

  • Fall Falke 1940 - German attacks against the Maginot Line on the French-German border; part of Fall Grün
  • Operation Festung 1940 - German airborne offensive on the Hague, Rotterdam
    Rotterdam
    Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

    , Dordrecht
    Dordrecht
    Dordrecht , colloquially Dordt, historically in English named Dort, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the fourth largest city of the province, having a population of 118,601 in 2009...

    , and Moerdijk
    Moerdijk
    Moerdijk is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant.- History :The municipality of Moerdijk was founded in 1997 following the merger of the municipalities of Fijnaart en Heijningen, Klundert, Standdaarbuiten, Willemstad and Zevenbergen. At that...

     in the Netherlands
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

    ; part of Fall Gelb
  • Operation G 1940 - German airborne offensive on Ghent
    Ghent
    Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...

     in the Netherlands; part of Fall Gelb
  • Operation Geier 1940 - German attack of the Maginot Line on the French-Germany border north of Kehl
    Kehl
    Kehl is a town in southwestern Germany in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the river Rhine, directly opposite the French city of Strasbourg.-History:...

    , Germany; part of Fall Grün
  • Operation Panther 1940 - German attacks on Strasbourg, France; part of Fall Braun
  • Operation Paula
    Operation Paula
    Unternehmen Paula is the German codename given for the Second World War Luftwaffe offensive operation to destroy the remaining units of the Armée de l'Air , or French Air Force during the Battle of France in 1940. On 10 May the German armed forces began its invasion of Western Europe...

     1940 - German aerial bombing of French countryside
  • Operation Planspiel III 1940 - German breakthrough of the Maginot Line between Teting and Wittring
    Wittring
    Wittring is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France....

    , France
  • Operation Raubvogelkäfig 1940 - German attack on the Maginot Line; part of Fall Grün
  • Operation Habicht 1940 - German diversionary attack on Mulhouse
    Mulhouse
    Mulhouse |mill]] hamlet) is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With a population of 110,514 and 278,206 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2006, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the second largest in the Alsace region after...

    , France; part of Fall Grün
  • Operation Morgenröte 1940 - German attack on Dutch bridges
  • Operation Luchs 1940 - German planned breakthrough
    Breakthrough (military)
    A breakthrough occurs when an offensive force has broken the enemy defensive line, and is rapidly exploiting the gap.Usually, large force is employed on a relatively small portion of the front to achieve this...

     between Breisach
    Breisach
    Breisach is a town with approximately 16,500 inhabitants, situated along the Rhine in the Rhine Valley, in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about halfway between Freiburg and Colmar — 20 kilometres away from each — and about 60 kilometres north of Basel near the...

     and Strasbourg
    Strasbourg
    Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

    , France; part of Fall Grün
  • Operation Attila
    Operation Attila (WW II)
    During World War II, Operation Attila was a plan for the Nazi occupation of Vichy France. This plan was drawn up in 1940 in case the French rejoined the Allies or in case of an Allied threat to the south of France....

     1940-1942 - German occupation of Vichy France
    Vichy France
    Vichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...

     prior to Italian support in 1942
  • Operation Hummer 1940-1945 - German infiltration of Britain
  • Operation Seemöwe 1940-1945 - German agent
    Espionage
    Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...

    s infiltration into Britain and Ireland
  • Operation Adler
    Operation Adler
    Military history records three events called Operation Adler, the name meaning Eagle in German:# A series of Luftwaffe attacks beginning on 13 August 1940 known as Operation Eagle Attack set to begin on Adlertag .# Anti-partisan operation centered on the Chechivichi region of Belarus begun on 20...

     1940 - German attacks
    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...

     on the British Royal Air Force
    Royal Air Force
    The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...

    , aimed to soften up the defences for a future amphibious invasion; also known as Operation Adlerangriff
  • Operation Alfred 1940 - German mining off Dover
    Dover
    Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings...

    , England using surface minelayers
  • Operation Ambassador
    Operation Ambassador
    Operation Ambassador was an operation carried out by British Commandos on 14–15 July 1940 within the context of the Second World War. It was the second raid by the newly formed British Commandos and was focused upon the German-occupied Channel island of Guernsey.The raiding party consisted of 40...

     1940 - German commando
    Commando
    In English, the term commando means a specific kind of individual soldier or military unit. In contemporary usage, commando usually means elite light infantry and/or special operations forces units, specializing in amphibious landings, parachuting, rappelling and similar techniques, to conduct and...

     raid
    Raid (military)
    Raid, also known as depredation, is a military tactic or operational warfare mission which has a specific purpose and is not normally intended to capture and hold terrain, but instead finish with the raiding force quickly retreating to a previous defended position prior to the enemy forces being...

     on British crown dependency
    Crown dependency
    The Crown Dependencies are British possessions of the Crown, as opposed to overseas territories of the United Kingdom. They comprise the Channel Island Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey in the English Channel, and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea....

     Bailiwick of Guernsey off the French coast
  • Operation Aufbau Ost 1940 - German strategic preparations for Operation Barbarossa
  • Operation Bernhard
    Operation Bernhard
    Operation Bernhard was the codename of a secret Nazi plan devised during the Second World War by the RSHA and the SS to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes...

     1940 - German mining off Dover, England
  • Operation Felix
    Operation Felix
    Operation Felix was the codename for a proposed German seizure of Gibraltar during World War II. It never got beyond the staff study stage, even though planning continued into 1944, primarily because of Francisco Franco's reluctance to commit Spain to enter the war on the Axis...

     1940 - German planned invasion of Gibraltar
    Gibraltar
    Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region...

     via the Iberian Peninsula
    Iberian Peninsula
    The Iberian Peninsula , sometimes called Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes the modern-day sovereign states of Spain, Portugal and Andorra, as well as the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar...

  • Fall Grün
    Fall Grün
    Fall Grün was a pre-World War II German plan for an aggressive war against Czechoslovakia. The plan was first drafted late in 1937, then revised as the military situation and requirements changed...

     1940 - German plan for a diversionary invasion of Ireland
    Ireland
    Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

     in support of Operation Seelöwe
  • Operation Grüne Bewegung 1940 - German planned landing at Brighton
    Brighton
    Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...

    , England; part of Operation Seelöwe
  • Operation Grünpfeil 1940 - German occupation of the Channel Islands
    Occupation of the Channel Islands
    The Channel Islands were occupied by Nazi Germany for much of World War II, from 30 June 1940 until the liberation on 9 May 1945. The Channel Islands are two British Crown dependencies and include the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey as well as the smaller islands of Alderney and Sark...

  • Operation Herbstreise
    Operation Herbstreise
    During World War II, Operation Herbstreise was a planned series of deception operations to support the German invasion of the United Kingdom...

     1940 - German planned diversionary invasion of Scotland
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

    , Britain; part of Operation Seelöwe
  • Operation Hummel 1940 - German intelligence gathering for operation Seelöwe
  • Operation Ikarus
    Operation Ikarus
    Operation Ikarus was a World War II German plan to invade Iceland, which had been occupied by British forces during Operation Fork in 1940. The German plan was never realized....

     1940 - German planned invasion of Iceland in response to British Operation Fork; originally planned to launch in conjunction with Operation Seelöwe
  • Operation Kathleen 1940 - German planned invasion of Ireland
  • Operation Lichtermeer 1940 - German airfield attacks| on British bomber
    Bomber
    A bomber is a military aircraft designed to attack ground and sea targets, by dropping bombs on them, or – in recent years – by launching cruise missiles at them.-Classifications of bombers:...

     airfields
  • Operation Loge 1940 - German 65-day air offensive
    Air offensive
    An air offensive is a type of military operation conducted using aircrew, airborne and strategic missile troops to allow securing of war, campaign or operational initiative, air-space superiority or ensure defeat of enemy forces through use of air-delivered ordnance, or destruction of enemy air,...

     against London, England
  • Operation Lucie 1940 - German planned invasion of the Dutch island of Texel in the North Sea
    North Sea
    In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...

  • Operation Luftparade 1940 - German night raid
    Night Raid
    Night Raid was a Leading sire in Australia of Thoroughbred racehorses. He sired two leading racehorses, namely Phar Lap and Nightmarch....

     on British air bases
  • Operation Löwe 1940 - German planned invasion of Britain; precursor of Operation Seelöwe
  • Operation Marianne 1940 - German motorboat
    Motorboat
    A motorboat is a boat which is powered by an engine. Some motorboats are fitted with inboard engines, others have an outboard motor installed on the rear, containing the internal combustion engine, the gearbox and the propeller in one portable unit.An inboard/outboard contains a hybrid of a...

     action off Dover
    Dover
    Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings...

    , England
  • Operation Mondscheinsonate 1940 - German night raid on Coventry
    Coventry
    Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...

    , England
  • Operation Nord 1940 - German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheers raid
    Raid (military)
    Raid, also known as depredation, is a military tactic or operational warfare mission which has a specific purpose and is not normally intended to capture and hold terrain, but instead finish with the raiding force quickly retreating to a previous defended position prior to the enemy forces being...

     in the North Atlantic Ocean
  • Operation Nordseetour
    Operation Nordseetour
    Operation Nordseetour was the first Atlantic sortie of the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper during December, 1940.The first attack, on troop convoy WS-5A, took place in December 1940. Although one of the escorting British cruisers, HMS Berwick, was heavily damaged, the impact on the convoy was...

     1940 - German first Atlantic operation of Admiral Hipper
    German cruiser Admiral Hipper
    Admiral Hipper, the first of five ships of her class, was the lead ship of the Admiral Hipper–class of heavy cruisers which served with the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1935 and launched February 1937; Admiral Hipper...

  • Operation Oldenburg 1940 - German aerial reconnaissance
    Aerial reconnaissance
    Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance that is conducted using unmanned aerial vehicles or reconnaissance aircraft. Their roles are to collect imagery intelligence, signals intelligence and measurement and signature intelligence...

     of Soviet Union's natural resources
  • Operation Oskar 1940 - German motorboat action off Dover, England, Britain
  • Operation Otto
    Operation Otto
    Operation Otto was an Axis powers anti-partisan operation in Croatia in 1943. The objective was to destroy the Partisans operating out of the Grmeč Mountains in the Una-Sana bend area in West Bosnia southwest of the line Bosanski Novi - Prijedor....

     1940 - German strategic preparations for Operation Barbarossa
  • Operation Regenschirm 1940 - German aerial bombing of Birmingham, England
  • Operation Seelöwe 1940 - German planned invasion of Britain; anglicised as 'Sealion'
  • Operation Sonnenblume
    Operation Sonnenblume
    Operation Sonnenblume was the deployment of German troops to North Africa in February 1941, during the Second World War...

     1940 - German response to British Operation Compass
    Operation Compass
    Operation Compass was the first major Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during World War II. British and Commonwealth forces attacked Italian forces in western Egypt and eastern Libya in December 1940 to February 1941. The attack was a complete success...

     offensive in North Africa; deployment of the German Afrika Korps
    Afrika Korps
    The German Africa Corps , or the Afrika Korps as it was popularly called, was the German expeditionary force in Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign of World War II...

     in North Africa
    North Africa
    North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, linked by the Sahara to Sub-Saharan Africa. Geopolitically, the United Nations definition of Northern Africa includes eight countries or territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia, and...

  • Operation Spark
    Operation Spark (1940)
    Operation Spark was a plan generated in the early 1940s by German anti-Nazis to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Another Operation Spark was conducted by the Red Army during the siege of Leningrad in 1943....

     1940 - German planned assassination of Adolf Hitler and coup d'état
    Coup d'état
    A coup d'état state, literally: strike/blow of state)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either...

     against the Nazi German government
  • Operation Tannenbaum
    Operation Tannenbaum
    Operation Tannenbaum , known earlier as Operation Green, was a planned but cancelled invasion of Switzerland by Nazi Germany during World War II.-Background:...

     1940 - German planned invasion of Switzerland
  • Operation Taube 1940 - German mission to transport Irish Republican Army
    Irish Republican Army
    The Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican revolutionary military organisation. It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916...

     Chief of Staff
    Chief of Staff
    The title, chief of staff, identifies the leader of a complex organization, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a Principal Staff Officer , who is the coordinator of the supporting staff or a primary aide to an important individual, such as a president.In general, a chief of...

     Seán Russell
    Seán Russell
    Seán Russell was an Irish republican who held senior positions in the IRA until the end of the Irish War of Independence...

     from Germany to Ireland
    Ireland
    Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

  • Operation Theodora 1940 - German intelligence gathering operation in North Africa
  • Operation Wespennest I 1940 - German destruction of rail links between Switzerland and France
  • Operation Wespennest II 1940 - German destruction of rail links between Switzerland and France
  • Operation Wikinger
    Operation Wikinger
    Operation Wikinger was a sortie into the North Sea by the 1st Destroyer Flotilla of the Kriegsmarine, in February 1940. During this operation, poor inter-service communication and cooperation between the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe and inexperience resulted in the loss of two German ships...

     1940 - German sortie
    Sortie
    Sortie is a term for deployment or dispatch of one military unit, be it an aircraft, ship, or troops from a strongpoint. The sortie, whether by one or more aircraft or vessels, usually has a specific mission....

     by German destroyer
    Destroyer
    In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

    s into the North Sea
  • Operation Wal 1940 - German aborted plan to coordinate actions with Scottish and Welsh nationalist groups
  • Operation Walfisch 1940 - German aborted plan to land an agent in Ireland

1941

  • Operation Brandung 1941 - Axis offensive toward El Alamein
    El Alamein
    El Alamein is a town in the northern Matrouh Governorate of Egypt. Located on the Mediterranean Sea, it lies west of Alexandria and northwest of Cairo. As of 2007, it has a local population of 7,397 inhabitants.- Climate :...

    , Egypt
  • Operation Skorpion
    Operation Skorpion
    After a small lull in the fighting following Operation Brevity, the Germans deployed three assault groups up in front of Halfaya Pass during the evening of 26 May and attacked the next morning. The Coldstream Guards and supporting units fought well but could not stop the Germans from securing a...

     1941 - Axis offensive at the Halfaya Pass
    Halfaya Pass
    Halfaya Pass is located in Egypt, near the border with Libya. A high escarpment extends south eastwards from the Egyptian-Libyan border at the coast at as-Salum , with the scarp slope facing into Egypt...

     on the border of Libya
    Libya
    Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

     and Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

  • Operation Sommernachtstraum 1941 - Axis attack on British supply depot
    Supply depot
    Supply depots are a type of military installation used by armies to store battlefield supplies temporarily on or near the front lines until they can be distributed to army units....

    s at Bir Khirreigat, Egypt
  • Operation Višegrad 1941 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
    Independent State of Croatia
    The Independent State of Croatia was a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany, established on a part of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. The NDH was founded on 10 April 1941, after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers. All of Bosnia and Herzegovina was annexed to NDH, together with some parts...

  • Operation 25 1941 - German invasion of Yugoslavia
    Invasion of Yugoslavia
    The Invasion of Yugoslavia , also known as the April War , was the Axis Powers' attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia which began on 6 April 1941 during World War II...

  • Operation Castigo 1941 - German aerial bombing of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Fritz 1941 - German planned invasion of the Soviet Union; later abandoned in favor of Operation Barbarossa
  • Operation Barbarossa
    Operation Barbarossa
    Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front., the largest invasion in the history of warfare...

     1941 - German invasion of the Soviet Union
  • Operation Beowulf I 1941 - German planned offensive of the Baltic States
  • Operation Beowulf II 1941 - German offensive in the Baltic States
  • Operation Berlin 1941 - German commerce raid in the Atlantic Ocean performed by Scharnhorst
    German battleship Scharnhorst
    Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship and battlecruiser, of the German Kriegsmarine. She was the lead ship of her class, which included one other ship, Gneisenau. The ship was built at the Kriegsmarinewerft dockyard in Wilhelmshaven; she was laid down on 15...

     and Gneisenau
    German battleship Gneisenau
    Gneisenau was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship and battlecruiser, of the German Kriegsmarine. She was the second vessel of her class, which included one other ship, Scharnhorst. The ship was built at the Deutsche Werke dockyard in Kiel; she was laid down on 6 May 1935...

  • Operation Bernhard
    Operation Bernhard
    Operation Bernhard was the codename of a secret Nazi plan devised during the Second World War by the RSHA and the SS to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes...

     1941 - German plan to destabilise British economy
    Economic warfare
    Economic warfare is the term for economic policies followed as a part of military operations during wartime.The purpose of economic warfare is to capture critical economic resources so that the military can operate at full efficiency and/or deprive the enemy forces of those resources so that they...

     with counterfeit
    Counterfeit
    To counterfeit means to illegally imitate something. Counterfeit products are often produced with the intent to take advantage of the superior value of the imitated product...

     British banknotes
  • Operation Blaufuchs 1 1941 - German deployment of forces from Germany to northern Finland, part of Operation Silberfuchs
  • Operation Blaufuchs 2 1941 - German deployment of German forces from Norway to northern Finland, part of Operation Silberfuchs
  • Operation Bogdanow 1941 - German construction operation to build rail bridges between Lida
    Lida
    Lida is a city in western Belarus in Hrodna Voblast, situated 160 km west of Minsk. It is the fourteenth largest city in Belarus.- Etymology :...

     and Molochtschno in Belorussia
  • Operation Eisstoss 1941 - German air raids
    Strategic bombing
    Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in a total war with the goal of defeating an enemy nation-state by destroying its economic ability and public will to wage war rather than destroying its land or naval forces...

     against Soviet Baltic Fleet
    Baltic Fleet
    The Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet - is the Russian Navy's presence in the Baltic Sea. In previous historical periods, it has been part of the navy of Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union. The Fleet gained the 'Twice Red Banner' appellation during the Soviet period, indicating two awards of...

     at Kronstadt
    Kronstadt
    Kronstadt , also spelled Kronshtadt, Cronstadt |crown]]" and Stadt for "city"); is a municipal town in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on Kotlin Island, west of Saint Petersburg proper near the head of the Gulf of Finland. Population: It is also...

     and Leningrad
    Leningrad
    Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...

    , USSR
  • Operation Fledermaus 1941 - German aerial bombing of British airfields
  • Operation Froschlaich 1941 - German air raids against Soviet Navy at Leningrad, USSR; part of Operation Eisstoss
  • Operation Götz v.Berlichingen 1941 - German air raids against Soviet Navy at Leningrad, USSR; part of Operation Eissto
  • Operation Haifisch I 1941 - German deceptive operation to hint a false invasion of Scotland and England, from Norway before the start of Operation Barbarossa
  • Operation Haifisch II 1941 - German deceptive operation to hint a false invasion of Scotland and England, from Norway before the start of Operation Barbarossa
  • Operation Hannibal
    Operation Hannibal
    Operation Hannibal was a German military operation involving the evacuation by sea of German troops and civilians from Courland, East Prussia, and the Polish Corridor from mid-January to May, 1945 as the Red Army advanced during the East Prussian and East Pomeranian Offensives and subsidiary...

     1941 - German invasion of the island of Lemnos, Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

  • Operation Hannibal
    Operation Hannibal
    Operation Hannibal was a German military operation involving the evacuation by sea of German troops and civilians from Courland, East Prussia, and the Polish Corridor from mid-January to May, 1945 as the Red Army advanced during the East Prussian and East Pomeranian Offensives and subsidiary...

     1941 - German operation to take the bridge over the Corinth Canal
    Corinth Canal
    The Corinth Canal is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, thus effectively making the former an island. The builders dug the canal through...

    , near Corinth, Greece
  • Operation Harpune
    Operation Harpune
    In World War II, Operation Harpune was the major German deception plan of 1941. This operation portrayed the so-called Operation Seelowe as inevitable, to conceal preparations for the invasion of the Soviet Union, called Operation Barbarossa...

     1941 - German deceptive operation to hint a false invasion of southern England
    Southern England
    Southern England, the South and the South of England are imprecise terms used to refer to the southern counties of England bordering the English Midlands. It has a number of different interpretations of its geographic extents. The South is considered by many to be a cultural region with a distinct...

    , from France before the start of Operation Barbarossa
  • Operation Irak 1941 - German deployment of aircraft to Iraq
    Iraq
    Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

  • Operation Isabella
    Operation Isabella
    During World War II, Operation Isabella was a Nazi German plan to be put into effect after the collapse of the Soviet Union to secure bases in Spain and Portugal for the continuation of the strangulation of Great Britain. This concept was laid out by Hitler in June 1941 but was never executed....

     1941 - German planned invasion of the Iberian Peninsula
    Iberian Peninsula
    The Iberian Peninsula , sometimes called Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes the modern-day sovereign states of Spain, Portugal and Andorra, as well as the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar...

  • Operation Karlsbad 1941 - German anti-partisan operation in the Berezina River region of Belorussia
  • Operation Lel 1941 - German diversionary plan in support of operation Beowulf II; part of Operation Nordwind
  • Operation Marita 1941 - German invasion of Greece
  • Operation Merkur 1941 - German invasion of Crete
    Crete
    Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

    , Greece
  • Operation Mitte 1941 - German attack on the island of Hiiumaa, off Estonian coast; part of Operation Siegfried
  • Operation Nau 1941 - German diversionary plan in support of Operation Beowulf II; part of Operation Nordwind
  • Operation Nordpol 1941 - German counter-intelligence operation in the Netherlands
  • Operation Nordwind
    Operation Nordwind
    Operation North Wind was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front. It began on 1 January 1945 in Alsace and Lorraine in northeastern France, and it ended on 25 January.-Objectives:...

     1941 - German diversionary invasion of the island of Saaremaa, Estonia in support of Operation Beowulf II
  • Operation Ost 1941 - German attack on Hiiumaa, an island off Estonian coast; part of Operation Siegfried
  • Operation Platinfuchs 1941 - German attack towards Murmansk
    Murmansk
    Murmansk is a city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It serves as a seaport and is located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland...

    , USSR from Finnish Petsamo, part of Operation Silberfuchs
  • Operation Polarfuchs 1941 - German attack towards Kandalaksha
    Kandalaksha
    Kandalaksha is a town in Kandalakshsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the head of Kandalaksha Gulf on the White Sea, beyond the Arctic Circle. Population: 40,564 ; -History:The settlement has existed since the 11th century...

    , USSR from Finnish Lapland, part of Operation Silberfuchs
  • Operation Renate 1941 - German motorboat action off Dover, England
  • Operation Renntier
    Operation Renntier
    Operation Renntier was a German operation during World War II intended to secure the nickel-mines around Petsamo, in Finland, against Soviet attack in the event of a renewed war between Finland and the Soviet Union....

     1941 - German occupation of Petsamo; part of Operation Silberfuchs
  • Operation Rheinübung
    Operation Rheinübung
    Operation Rheinübung was the sortie into the Atlantic by the new German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 18–27 May 1941, during World War II...

     1941 - German planned attacks on Allied shipping conducted by Bismarck
    German battleship Bismarck
    Bismarck was the first of two s built for the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the primary force behind the German unification in 1871, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched nearly three years later...

     and Prinz Eugen
    German cruiser Prinz Eugen
    Prinz Eugen was an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, the third member of the class of five vessels. She served with the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship was laid down in April 1936 and launched August 1938; Prinz Eugen entered service after the outbreak of war, in August 1940...

  • Operation Salaam
    Operation Salaam
    Operation Salaam was a 1942 World War II military operation under the command of the Hungarian aristocrat and desert explorer László Almásy...

     1941 - German plan to make contact with Egyptian nationalists
  • Operation Schlussjagd 1941 - [German offensive towards Tula
    Tula, Russia
    Tula is an industrial city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast, Russia. It is located south of Moscow, on the Upa River. Population: -History:...

    , USSR during the offensive toward Moscow
    Battle of Moscow
    The Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...

     by the 2nd Panzer
  • Operation Siegfried 1941 - German attack on Hiiumaa, an island off Estonia; part of Operation Beowulf II
  • Operation Silberfuchs 1941 - German attack on Murmansk, USSR; Anglicized as 'Silver Fox'
  • Operation Stimmung 1941 - German diversionary plan in support of Operation Beowulf II; part of Operation Nordwind
  • Operation Strafe 1941 - German bombing of Belgrade
    Belgrade
    Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

    , Yugoslavia; part of Operation 25
  • Operation Strafe 1941 - German planned invasion of Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

  • Operation Sturmflut 1941 - German offensive at the Kasserine Pass, Tunisia
    Tunisia
    Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

  • Operation Südwind 1941 - German defence plan against a general uprising
    Rebellion
    Rebellion, uprising or insurrection, is a refusal of obedience or order. It may, therefore, be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors aimed at destroying or replacing an established authority such as a government or a head of state...

     in occupied France
  • Operation Südwind 1941 - German diversionary attack on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia in support of Operation Beowulf II
  • Operation Taifun 1941 - German offensive toward Moscow, USSR; part of Operation Barbarossa
  • Operation Taube 1941 - German plan to support the Irish Republican Army in Ireland and Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

  • Operation Tichwin 1941 - German offensive on Leningrad
    Leningrad
    Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...

    , USSR
  • Operation Venezia
    Operation Venezia
    Operation Venezia was a Second World War operation in which Erwin Rommel moved a large portion of his forces around Bir Hakeim, the southern most part of the British Gazala Line, soon after the start of the Battle of Gazala....

     1941 - German advance toward the Gazala Line near Bir Hakeim, Libya
  • Operation Weber 1941 - German naval operation off the coast of Southern England
  • Operation West 1941 - German attack on Hiiumaa, an island off Estonia; part of Operation Siegfried
  • Operation Weststurm 1941 - German naval operation in support of Operation Beowulf II
  • Operation Westwind 1941 - German diversionary plan in support of Operation Beowulf II
  • Operation Alpenveilchen
    Operation Alpenveilchen
    During World War II, Operation Alpine Violet was a proposed German operation designed to help the Italians in 1941 break out of their Albanian colony and into Greece. This operation was never executed....

     1941 - German aborted planned intervention during the Italian invasion of Albania
    Italian invasion of Albania
    The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini...

  • Operation Amina 1941 - German failed operation to destroy oil refineries
    Oil refinery
    An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas...

     in Abadan, Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

  • Operation Ozren 1941-1942 - German anti-partisan operations near Ozren
    Ozren
    Ozren is a mountain in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies between cities of Doboj and Zavidovići, partly in the Republika Srpska and partly in the Federation entity....

    , Yugoslavia
  • Operation Beethoven 1941-1945 - German program to develop composite aircraft
    Composite aircraft
    A composite aircraft is made up of multiple component craft. It takes off and flies initially as a single aircraft, with the components able to separate in flight and continue as independent aircraft.-Design principles:...


1942

  • Operation Aida
    Operation Aida
    During World War II, Operation Aida was a ground attack launched by Erwin Rommel following his victory at the Battle of Gazala in the summer of 1942 which pushed British forces east as far as El Alamein, 60 miles west of Alexandria. The Germans captured over six thousand British prisoners...

     1942 - Axis offensive in Libya with Tobruk
    Tobruk
    Tobruk or Tubruq is a city, seaport, and peninsula on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital of the Butnan District and has a population of 120,000 ....

     as the initial objective in Libya, and advance into Egypt as a strategic goal
  • Operation Alba
    Operation Alba
    Operation Alba was a multinational peacekeeping force sent to Albania in 1997. Led by Italy, it was intended to help the Albanian government restore law and order in their troubled country after the 1997 rebellion in Albania....

     1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia; also known as Operation Albia and Operation Albija
  • Operation Albia 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia; also known as Operation Alba and Operation Albija
  • Operation Albija 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia; also known as Operation Alba and Operation Albia
  • Operation Alfa
    Operation Alfa
    Operation Alfa was an Italian-Chetnik military operation carried out in the Prozor region. Prozor was located within the Italian third occupation zone in the Independent State of Croatia....

     1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in Yugoslavia
  • Operation Beta 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in Yugoslavia
  • Operation Capri
    Operation Capri
    The Battle of Medenine, also known as Operation Capri, was a German counter-attack at Medenine, Tunisia, intended to disrupt and delay the 8th Army's attack on the Mareth Line. The German attack started on 6 March 1943, failed to make much impression and was abandoned at dusk on the same day...

     1942 - Axis counterattack at Medenine
    Medenine
    Medenine is the major town in southeastern Tunisia, south of the port of Gabès and the Island of Djerba, on the main route to Libya. It is the capital of Medenine Governorate.- Overview :...

    , Tunisia
  • Operation Edelweiss
    Operation Edelweiss
    Operation Edelweiss , named after the mountain flower, was a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus and capture the oil fields of Baku during the Soviet-German War. The operation was authorised by Hitler on 23 July 1942...

     1942 - Axis offensive on Caucasus region in southern USSR; part of Operation Braunschweig
  • Operation Foca 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Fruška gora 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Jajce 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Jajce II 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Jajce III 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation K
    Operation K
    was a Japanese naval operation in World War II, intended as a reconnaissance of Pearl Harbor and disruption of repair and salvage operations following the surprise attack on December 7, 1941. It culminated on March 4, 1942, with an unsuccessful attack carried out by two Kawanishi H8K "Emily" flying...

     1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Kasten 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Kozara 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Kreševo 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Lug 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Manjaca Mountains 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Maus 1942 - Axis offensive toward the Caucasus region in Southern USSR
  • Operation Petrova gora I 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Petrova gora II 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Prijedor 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Provincia di Lubiana 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation S 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Sandmann 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Süd-Kroatien I 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Süd-Kroatien II 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Theseus 1942 - Axis offensive in Cyrenaica
    Cyrenaica
    Cyrenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya.Also known as Pentapolis in antiquity, it was part of the Creta et Cyrenaica province during the Roman period, later divided in Libia Pentapolis and Libia Sicca...

    , Libya and Egypt
  • Operation Travnik 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Trio 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in Bosnia and Croatia
    Croatia
    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

    , Yugoslavia
  • Operation Tuzla II 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation West-Bosnien 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Zenica-Zavidovici 1942 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Moorbrand 1942 - Cancelled planned attack near Pogostje, USSR
  • Operation Sportpalast
    Operation Sportpalast
    Operation Sportpalast was the action by Tirpitz and its escorting destroyers against Arctic convoys PQ-12 and QP-8...

     1942 - Failed planned naval operation to attack Arctic convoys PQ-12 and QP-8
  • Operation Adler
    Operation Adler
    Military history records three events called Operation Adler, the name meaning Eagle in German:# A series of Luftwaffe attacks beginning on 13 August 1940 known as Operation Eagle Attack set to begin on Adlertag .# Anti-partisan operation centered on the Chechivichi region of Belarus begun on 20...

     1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Chechivichi region of Belorussia
  • Fall Anton 1942 - German occupation of Vichy France with Italian support in 1942
  • Operation Attika 1942 - German attack on Tuapse
    Tuapse
    Tuapse is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the northeast shore of the Black Sea, south of Gelendzhik and north of Sochi. It serves as the administrative center of Tuapsinsky District, although administratively it is separate from it...

    , in the Caucasus region
  • Operation Bamberg
    Operation Bamberg
    Operation Bamberg was an anti-partisan operation during the Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The pilot project for offensive anti-partisan fighting was the operation Bamberg in the area of Hłusk-Pariczi-Oktiabrskij to the south of Bobrujsk, in the eastern Polesie...

     1942 - German anti-partisan operation around Bobruisk, Belorussia in conjunction with Operation München I
  • Operation Bettelstab 1942 - German planned offensive at Leningrad, USSR
  • Fall Blau 1942 - German offensive against Voronezh
    Voronezh
    Voronezh is a city in southwestern Russia, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is located on both sides of the Voronezh River, away from where it flows into the Don. It is an operating center of the Southeastern Railway , as well as the center of the Don Highway...

    , USSR
  • Operation Blücher
    Operation Blücher
    Marshal Blücher was the Prussian commander at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. His name is commonly anglicized as "Bluecher". German military history notes two operations named Operation Blücher....

     1942 - German attack on the Strait of Kerch
    Strait of Kerch
    The Kerch Strait connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula in the west from the Taman Peninsula in the east. The strait is to wide and up to deep....

     in the Caucasus region, and Rzhev
    Rzhev
    Rzhev is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, southwest of Staritsa and from Tver, on the highway and railway connecting Moscow and Riga. It is the uppermost town situated on the Volga River. Population:...

    , USSR; part of Fall Blau
  • Operation Blücher II 1942 - German attack on the Strait of Kerch in the Caucasus region in Southern USSR; part of Fall Blau
  • Operation Braun 1942 - German defence of Tunis
    Tunis
    Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....

    , Tunisia in response to Allied operation Torch
    Operation Torch
    Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started on 8 November 1942....

  • Operation Braunschweig
    Operation Braunschweig
    Operation Braunschweig , named for the German city, was the German summer offensive that began on 28 June 1942. The operation was initially named Fall Blau , which is the common name used for the whole offensive. The name was changed from Blau to Braunschweig on 30 June...

     1942 - German offensive toward Stalingrad and the general Caucasus region in Southern USSR; part of Fall Blau
  • Operation Brückenschlag 1942 - German breakout
    Breakout (military)
    A breakout is a military operation to end a situation of encirclement or siege. It is used in contexts such as: "The British breakout attempt from Normandy"....

     attempt following the Soviet envelopment of German troops in Demyansk
    Demyansk
    Demyansk is an urban locality and the administrative center of Demyansky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located along the Yavon River. Population:...

    , south of Leningrad, USSR
  • Operation Bussard 1942 - German offensive in the Caucasus region of Southern USSR
  • Operation Cottbus
    Operation Cottbus
    Operation Cottbus was an anti-partisan operation during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The operation began on May 20, 1943 during the World War II occupation of northern Belarus in the areas of Begoml, Lepel and Ushachy...

     1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Polotsk, Lepel, and Borisov in Belorussia
  • Operation Dampfhamm 1942 - German planned third phase
    Phase (combat)
    A Phase in combat is usually a period within a military operation of a longer duration that is a part of a serial chain of logically connected activities planned to culminate in a defined objective or goal....

     of the German summer offensive in the Caucasus region of Southern USSR
  • Operation Derfflinger 1942 - German cancelled pincer operation
    Envelopment
    Envelopment is the military tactic of surrounding an enemy in the field so that they are isolated in a pocket. The friendly forces can choose to attack the pocket or invest it and wait for a beleaguered enemy to surrender.To achieve an envelopment several different tactics can be employed:* A...

     against Ostazchkov, USSR
  • Operation Donnerkeil
    Operation Donnerkeil
    Unternehmen Donnerkeil was the codename for a German military operation of the Second World War. Donnerkeil was designed as an air superiority operation to support the Kriegsmarine Operation Cerberus, also known as the "Channel Dash".In 1941 Kriegsmarine surface vessels had carried out commerce...

     1942 - German air superiority for Operation Cerberus
  • Operation Donnerschlag
    Operation Donnerschlag
    During World War II, the German military planned or undertook an operation named Donnerschlag .The December 1942 German Army plan called for a breakout from the besieged city of Stalingrad by the German Sixth Army and there meet up with the relief Operation Wintergewitter...

     1942 - German planned break-out movement from Stalingrad, USSR
  • Operation Doppelschlag
    Operation Doppelschlag
    Operation Doppelschlag was the planned sortie in 1942 into the Arctic Ocean by warships of the German Navy during World War II....

     1942 - German anti-shipping operation off Novaya Zemlya by Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper
  • Operation Dora 1942 - German operation to disrupt British supply lines in Southern Libya
  • Operation Dreiecke 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Bryansk
    Bryansk
    Bryansk is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Moscow. Population: -History:The first written mention of Bryansk was in 1146, in the Hypatian Codex, as Debryansk...

    , USSR
  • Operation Feuerzauber 1942 - German planned attack on Leningrad, USSR; renamed to Operation Nordlicht
  • Operation Fischreiher
    Operation Fischreiher
    Operation Fischreiher was an extension to Operation Blue II during the German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II...

     1942 - German attack on Stalingrad and Astrakhan
    Astrakhan
    Astrakhan is a major city in southern European Russia and the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. The city lies on the left bank of the Volga River, close to where it discharges into the Caspian Sea at an altitude of below the sea level. Population:...

    , USSR; part of Fall Blau
  • Operation Fredericus I 1942 - German attack on Kharkov, USSR
  • Operation Fredericus II 1942 - German attack on Odessa
    Odessa
    Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

    , Ukraine as a follow-up operation to Operation Fredericus I
  • Operation Frieda 1942 - German anti-partisan operation
  • Operation Georg 1942 - German planned attack on Leningrad, USSR; renamed to Operation Feuerzauber
  • Operation Gertrud 1942 - German planned response in case of Turkey joining the Allies
  • Operation Gisella 1942 - German planned invasion of the Iberian peninsula
    Iberian Peninsula
    The Iberian Peninsula , sometimes called Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes the modern-day sovereign states of Spain, Portugal and Andorra, as well as the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar...

    ; revised from Operation Isabella
  • Operation Greif
    Operation Greif
    Operation Greif was a special false flag operation commanded by Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny during the Battle of the Bulge. The operation was the brainchild of Adolf Hitler, and its purpose was to capture one or more of the bridges over the Meuse river before they could be destroyed...

     1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Orsha
    Orsha
    Orsha is a city in Belarus in Vitebsk voblast on the fork of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers.-Facts:*Location: *Population: 125,000 *Phone code: +375 216*Postal codes: 211030, 211381–211394, 211396–211398-History:...

     and Vitebsk
    Vitebsk
    Vitebsk, also known as Viciebsk or Vitsyebsk , is a city in Belarus, near the border with Russia. The capital of the Vitebsk Oblast, in 2004 it had 342,381 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth largest city...

    , Belorussia
  • Operation Grünspecht 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Bryansk, USSR
  • Operation Hannover I 1942 - German operation near Vyazma
    Vyazma
    Vyazma is a town and the administrative center of Vyazemsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyazma River, about halfway between Smolensk and Mozhaysk. Throughout its turbulent history, the city defended western approaches to the city of Moscow...

    , USSR
  • Operation Hannover II 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in the upper Dnieper River region (Byelorussia and Ukraine)
  • Operation Hecht 1942 - German first planned submarine wolfpack raid in the North Atlantic Ocean
  • Operation Herbstlaub 1942 - German cancelled planned operation in the Caucasus region of Southern USSR, near Krasnoarmeisk, Ukraine and Beketovka, USSR
  • Operation Herbstzeitlose 1942 - German cancelled planned plan to advance to the Don
    Don River (Russia)
    The Don River is one of the major rivers of Russia. It rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 kilometres southeast from Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for a distance of about 1,950 kilometres to the Sea of Azov....

     and Volga Rivers in the Caucasus region of Southern USSR
  • Operation Herkules
    Operation Herkules
    Operation Herkules was the German code-name given to a planned but never-executed Italo-German invasion of Malta during World War II...

     1942 - German planned airborne invasion of Malta
    Malta
    Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

  • Operation Holzauge 1942 - German activities in Greenland
  • Operation Hornbläser 1942 - German planned attack on Alexandria
    Alexandria
    Alexandria is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving...

     harbour, Egypt
  • Operation Ilona 1942 - German planned invasion of the Iberian peninsula; revised from Operation Isabella
  • Operation Jacob 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Uzda
    Uzda
    Uzda -History:The town was first mentioned in 1450. From 1938 it had the status of "urban-type settlement" and received its town status in 1999.-Geography:...

    , Belorussia
  • Operation Klabautermann 1942 - German operation against Soviet supply lines near Leningrad, USSR
  • Operation Klette I 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Bryansk, USSR
  • Operation Kreml 1942 - German deceptive operation in support of Operation Edelwei
  • Operation Lachsfang 1942 - German combined German and Finnish attack against Kandalaksha and Belomorsk
    Belomorsk
    Belomorsk is a town and the administrative center of Belomorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Onega Bay on the shore of the White Sea. Population:...

    , USSR
  • Operation Landbrücke 1942 - German attempt to hold a narrow connection near Demyansk, south of Leningrad, USSR to prevent envelopment
  • Operation Lichtschlag 1942 - German cancelled planned attack north of Cholm, USSR near the Lovat
    Lovat River
    The Lovat River is a river in Belarus and Russia. It flows out of Lovatets Lake in northwestern Belarus, and flows north through Pskov and Novgorod Oblasts of Russia into Lake Ilmen. Its main tributaries are the Kunya, Polist, Redya, and Robya Rivers....

     and Kunya River
    Kunya River
    The Kunya River is a river in Pskov Oblast, Tver Oblast and Novgorod Oblast of Russia, and a tributary of the Lovat River. It flows north out of Vsteselovo Lake in the southern portion of Pskov Oblast, near the town of Velikie Luki, and joins the Lovat in the town of Kholm....

    s
  • Operation Lila 1942 - German attempt to capture French fleet at Toulon, France
  • Operation Maikäfer 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Babruysk, Belorussia
  • Operation Malaria 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Osipovichi, Belorussia
  • Operation Mitte Juli 1942 - German anti-partisan operation
  • Operation München I 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Belorussia
  • Operation München I 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Radoshkovichi, Belorussia
  • Operation Märzfieber 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Belorussia
  • Operation Möwe I 1942 - German planned operation to sabotage
    Sabotage
    Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening another entity through subversion, obstruction, disruption, or destruction. In a workplace setting, sabotage is the conscious withdrawal of efficiency generally directed at causing some change in workplace conditions. One who engages in sabotage is...

     aluminum factories in southern Scotland, Britain
  • Operation Neuland 1942 - German submarine operation in the Caribbean Sea
    Caribbean Sea
    The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the Western hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and southwest, to the north by the Greater Antilles, and to the east by the Lesser Antilles....

  • Operation Nordlicht 1942 - German planned attack on Leningrad, USSR; formerly planned as Operation Feuerzauber
  • Operation Nordpol 1942 - German cancelled planned operation east of Moscow, USSR
  • Operation Nordsee 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Mogilev
    Mogilev
    Mogilev is a city in eastern Belarus, about 76 km from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and 105 km from the border with Russia's Bryansk Oblast. It has more than 367,788 inhabitants...

    , Belorussia
  • Operation Ochsenkopf 1942 - German counterattack
    Counterattack
    A counterattack is a tactic used in response against an attack. The term originates in military strategy. The general objective is to negate or thwart the advantage gained by the enemy in attack and the specific objectives are usually to regain lost ground or to destroy attacking enemy units.It is...

    s in attempt to expand the Tunis perimeter
  • Operation Olymp 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Greece
  • Operation Orkan 1942 - German cancelled planned attack in the Belov
    Belov
    Belov , or Belova , is a common Russian surname which may refer to:People*Aleksandar Belov , Macedonian singer*Alexander Belov , Russian basketball player...

    -Yukhnov
    Yukhnov
    Yukhnov is a town and the administrative center of Yukhnovsky District of Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Kunava River northwest of Kaluga. Population: It has been known since 1410. Town status was granted to it in 1777....

     area towards Kaluga
    Kaluga
    Kaluga is a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River southwest of Moscow. Population: It is served by Grabtsevo Airport.-History:...

     in USSR
  • Operation Orkan II 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Lublin
    Lublin
    Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

    , Poland
  • General Plan Ost 1942 - German plan for genocide
    Genocide
    Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group", though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars...

     throughout Europe
  • Operation Pastorious 1942 - German plan to sabotage industrial targets at Long Island
    Long Island
    Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...

    , New York, United States
  • Operation Paukenschlag 1942 - German submarine campaign against shipping off the east coast of the United States
    East Coast of the United States
    The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, refers to the easternmost coastal states in the United States, which touch the Atlantic Ocean and stretch up to Canada. The term includes the U.S...

    ; nicknamed 'Second Happy Time'
  • Operation Polarnacht 1942 - German deployment of battleship
    Battleship
    A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

     Tirpitz
    German battleship Tirpitz
    Tirpitz was the second of two s built for the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. Named after Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the Imperial Navy, the ship was laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft in Wilhelmshaven in November 1936 and launched two and a half years later in April...

     from Wilhelmshaven
    Wilhelmshaven
    Wilhelmshaven is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the western side of the Jade Bight, a bay of the North Sea.-History:...

    , Germany to Trondheim
    Trondheim
    Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

    , Norway
  • Operation Raubtier 1942 - German cancelled planned attack toward the Volkhov River
    Volkhov River
    Volkhov is a river in Novgorod Oblast and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia.-Geography:The Volkhov flows out of Lake Ilmen north into Lake Ladoga, the largest lake of Europe. It is the second largest tributary of Lake Ladoga. It is navigable over its whole length. Discharge is highly...

     near Leningrad, USSR
  • Operation Regatta 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in the Smolensk
    Smolensk
    Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River. Situated west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler. Today, Smolensk...

    -Gorky
    Nizhny Novgorod
    Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...

     area in USSR
  • Operation Rösselsprung
    Operation Rösselsprung (Naval)
    Rösselsprung was the largest operation of its type mounted by the Kriegsmarine during World War II, and arguably the most successful, resulting as it did in the near destruction of arctic convoy PQ-17...

     1942 - German naval operation to attack Arctic convoy PQ-17
  • Operation Schamil
    Operation Schamil
    Operation Schamil was a plan for a German army operation to drop special operations forces ahead of the main attacking force against the Soviet towns of Maykop and Grozny...

     1942 - German planned operation to secure Caucasus oil fields in Southern USSR using paratrooper
    Paratrooper
    Paratroopers are soldiers trained in parachuting and generally operate as part of an airborne force.Paratroopers are used for tactical advantage as they can be inserted into the battlefield from the air, thereby allowing them to be positioned in areas not accessible by land...

    s
  • Operation Schnee 1942 - German supply mission to Norway
  • Operation Siegfried 1942 - German attack toward Stalingrad and the general Caucasus region in Southern USSR; part of Fall Blau
  • Operation Silberstreife 1942 - German planned operations against Allied convoys to Murmansk, USSR
  • Operation Skorpion
    Operation Skorpion
    After a small lull in the fighting following Operation Brevity, the Germans deployed three assault groups up in front of Halfaya Pass during the evening of 26 May and attacked the next morning. The Coldstream Guards and supporting units fought well but could not stop the Germans from securing a...

     1942 - German attack on Halfaya Pass, on the border of Libya and Egypt
  • Operation Sportpalast
    Operation Sportpalast
    Operation Sportpalast was the action by Tirpitz and its escorting destroyers against Arctic convoys PQ-12 and QP-8...

     1942 - German deployment of cruisers Prinz Eugen
    German cruiser Prinz Eugen
    Prinz Eugen was an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, the third member of the class of five vessels. She served with the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship was laid down in April 1936 and launched August 1938; Prinz Eugen entered service after the outbreak of war, in August 1940...

     and Admiral Scheer to Norway
  • Operation Spätlese 1942 - German anti-partisan operation north of Smolensk
    Smolensk
    Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River. Situated west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler. Today, Smolensk...

    , USSR
  • Operation Storfang 1942 - German attack on Sevastopol
    Sevastopol
    Sevastopol is a city on rights of administrative division of Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 . Sevastopol is the second largest port in Ukraine, after the Port of Odessa....

    , Ukraine
  • Operation Sumpf 1942 - German operation near Demyansk
    Demyansk
    Demyansk is an urban locality and the administrative center of Demyansky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located along the Yavon River. Population:...

    , south of Leningrad, USSR
  • Operation Sumpffieber 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Loknja, Ukraine
  • Operation Taubenschlag 1942 - German cancelled planned attack on Toropets
    Toropets
    Toropets is a town and the administrative center of Toropetsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located where the Toropa River enters Lake Solomeno. Population: -History:...

    , USSR
  • Operation Tintenfisch 1942 - German seizure of Swiss exports
  • Operation Trappenjagd 1942 - German offensive on the Kerch Peninsula
    Kerch Peninsula
    The Kerch Peninsula is a major and prominent geographic feature located at the eastern portion of Crimea. Stretching towards the Taman peninsula, it is reminiscent of an isthmus between two neighboring seas: Azov Sea and Black Sea...

    , Ukraine
  • Operation Venezie 1942 - German advance against the British Gazala Line toward Tobruk, Libya
  • Operation Vierecke 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in Bryansk, USSR
  • Operation Vogelsang 1942 - German anti-partisan operation in the Roslavl
    Roslavl
    Roslavl is a town and the administrative center of Roslavlsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia. It is a road and rail junction and a market town. Population: It was founded in 1137 by the Smolensk prince Rostislav Mstislavitch, hence the name...

     and Bryansk region of USSR
  • Operation Wei 1942 - German anti-partisan operations in Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Wiesengrund 1942 - German occupation of the Fisherman's Peninsula in northern Scandinavia
  • Operation Wilhelm 1942 - German operation against Volchansk
    Volchansk
    Volchansk is a town under the administrative jurisdiction of the Town of Karpinsk in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volchanka River , north of Yekaterinburg...

    , USSR
  • Operation Winkelreid 1942 - German operation within the Demyansk Pocket
    Demyansk Pocket
    The Demyansk Pocket was the name given for the encirclement of German troops by the Red Army around Demyansk , south of Leningrad, during World War II on the Eastern Front. The pocket existed mainly from 8 February-21 April 1942. A much smaller pocket was simultaneously surrounded in Kholm, about ...

     near Leningrad, USSR
  • Operation Wintermärchen 1942 - German attack between the Volga and Don River
    Don River (Russia)
    The Don River is one of the major rivers of Russia. It rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 kilometres southeast from Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for a distance of about 1,950 kilometres to the Sea of Azov....

    s
  • Operation Wolke 1942 - German transfer to troops to Norway
  • Operation Wunderland
    Operation Wunderland
    Operation Wunderland was a large-scale operation undertaken in summer 1942 by the Kriegsmarine during World War II in the waters of the Northern Sea Route close to the Arctic Ocean...

     1942 - German anti-shipping operation in Kara Sea
    Kara Sea
    The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya....

     and Barents Sea
    Barents Sea
    The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of Norway and Russia. Known in the Middle Ages as the Murman Sea, the sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barents...

     by cruiser Admiral Scheer
  • Operation Zarin 1942 - German mining action off Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean
    Arctic Ocean
    The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions...

     by Admiral Hipper
    German cruiser Admiral Hipper
    Admiral Hipper, the first of five ships of her class, was the lead ship of the Admiral Hipper–class of heavy cruisers which served with the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1935 and launched February 1937; Admiral Hipper...

     and destroyers
  • Operation Zauberflöte 1942 - German operation to manoeuvre damaged Prinz Eugen
    German cruiser Prinz Eugen
    Prinz Eugen was an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, the third member of the class of five vessels. She served with the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship was laid down in April 1936 and launched August 1938; Prinz Eugen entered service after the outbreak of war, in August 1940...

     from Trondheim, Norway to Kiel
    Kiel
    Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...

    , Germany
  • Operation Zerberus 1942 - German break-out of German capital ship
    Capital ship
    The capital ships of a navy are its most important warships; they generally possess the heaviest firepower and armor and are traditionally much larger than other naval vessels...

    s from Brest
    Brest, France
    Brest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...

    , France to Norway; Anglicized as 'Cerberus' and nicknamed by the British as the 'Channel Dash'
  • Operation Clausewitz
    Operation Clausewitz
    Operation Clausewitz was part of the defence of Berlin by Nazi Germany during the final stage of the European conflict of World War II. It started on 20 April 1945 and called for a number of thus far unknown actions but which included the evacuation of all Wehrmacht and SS offices in Berlin and...

     1942 - German second phase of the German summer offensive in the Caucasus region of Southern USSR
  • Operation Regenbogen
    Operation Regenbogen (Arctic)
    Operation Regenbogen was the sortie in 1942 into the Arctic Ocean by warships of the German Navy during World War II...

     1942 - German failed attack on Arctic convoy JW-51B by Admiral Hipper
    German cruiser Admiral Hipper
    Admiral Hipper, the first of five ships of her class, was the lead ship of the Admiral Hipper–class of heavy cruisers which served with the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1935 and launched February 1937; Admiral Hipper...

     and Lützow

1943

  • Operation Adler
    Operation Adler
    Military history records three events called Operation Adler, the name meaning Eagle in German:# A series of Luftwaffe attacks beginning on 13 August 1940 known as Operation Eagle Attack set to begin on Adlertag .# Anti-partisan operation centered on the Chechivichi region of Belarus begun on 20...

     1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation on the north Dalmatian coast in Yugoslavia, with focus in the cities of Rijeka
    Rijeka
    Rijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...

    , Karlobag
    Karlobag
    Karlobag is a historic and picturesque seaside municipality on the Adriatic coast in Croatia, located underneath Velebit overlooking the island of Pag, west of Gospić and south of Senj. The Gacka river also runs through the area...

    , and Zadar
    Zadar
    Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens...

  • Operation Berta 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Bilo gora 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Bilo gora Ost 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Bilo gora Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Cardaci 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation near Cardaci
    Čardaci
    Čardaci is a village in the municipality of Bugojno, Bosnia and Herzegovina....

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Cyrill 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation at the Glogovnica Canal on the Casma River
    Casma River
    The Casma is a river that crosses northern Casma province in the Ancash Region of Peru. It originates in the Black Mountain Range and drains into the Pacific Ocean.Major tributaries include the Sechín River and the Grande River ....

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Ferkel 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Majevica mountains northeast of Tuzla in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Frühlungswind 1943 - Axis attack on Faid Pass near Sidi bou Zid
    Sidi Bou Zid
    Sidi Bouzid , sometimes called Sidi Bou Zid or Sīdī Bū Zayd, is a city in Tunisia and is the capital of Sidi Bouzid Governorate in the centre of the country...

    , Tunisia
  • Operation Geiserich 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in Split
    Split (city)
    Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...

     on the coast of the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Grün 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Grün II 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation at the Kupa River between the Sava and the Farkašic-Kravarsko line in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Gustav 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Ivan 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Moslavacka Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Klara 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Velika Kladuša
    Velika Kladuša
    Velika Kladuša is a city and municipality in the far northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located near the border with Croatia. The closest city is Cazin, and a bit farther, the cities of Bihać and Bosanski Novi. Across the border, it is not far from Cetingrad...

     area in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Klašnice 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Krause I 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Krause II 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Kugelblitz 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the area between Rogatica
    Rogatica
    Rogatica is a municipality and town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina located 60 kilometres northeast of Sarajevo; midway on the road from Goražde towards Sokolac...

     and Vlasenica
    Vlasenica
    Vlasenica is a municipality and town of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Administratively it is part of Vlasenica Region.-1912:...

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Merkur 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Krbavsko Polje plain in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Mirko 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Moslavacka gora 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Ostern 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Otto
    Operation Otto
    Operation Otto was an Axis powers anti-partisan operation in Croatia in 1943. The objective was to destroy the Partisans operating out of the Grmeč Mountains in the Una-Sana bend area in West Bosnia southwest of the line Bosanski Novi - Prijedor....

     1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Grmec Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Ozren 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Sunja area in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Petrinja 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation at the Okucani-Lipik-Banova Jaruga-Novska area in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Pfingsten 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Prnjavor-Kotor Varoš-Teslic area in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Raureif 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in Turbe in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Richard 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation near Razboj in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Ristow 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation between Bosanski Novi and Prijedor
    Prijedor
    Prijedor is a city and municipality in the north-western part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the Bosanska Krajina region....

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Schwarz 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in Montenegro
    Montenegro
    Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

     and Herzegovina
    Herzegovina
    Herzegovina is the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. While there is no official border distinguishing it from the Bosnian region, it is generally accepted that the borders of the region are Croatia to the west, Montenegro to the south, the canton boundaries of the Herzegovina-Neretva...

    , Yugoslavia
  • Operation Tannenbaum
    Operation Tannenbaum
    Operation Tannenbaum , known earlier as Operation Green, was a planned but cancelled invasion of Switzerland by Nazi Germany during World War II.-Background:...

     1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the area between Bosanski Novi and Buzim
    Bužim
    Bužim is a village and municipality situated in the most northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Administratively, it is part of the Una-Sana Canton.-Geography:...

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Teslic I 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Ulrich 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Kozara Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Una-Sava Bend 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Varazdin 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Kalnik Mountains between Varazdin
    Varaždin
    Varaždin is a city in north Croatia, north of Zagreb on the highway A4. The total population is 47,055, with 38,746 on of the city settlement itself . The centre of Varaždin county is located near the Drava river, at...

     and Križevci in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Virovitica 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Windstoss 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Zagorje 1943 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Kalnik Mountains in the Novi Marof area in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation 505 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Tuzla, Bosnia, Yugoslavia
  • Fall Achse 1943 - German response to Italian surrender to the Allies
  • Operation Arnim 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in the Fruška gora Mountains in Syrmia
    Syrmia
    Syrmia is a fertile region of the Pannonian Plain in Europe, between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is divided between Serbia in the east and Croatia in the west....

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Attacke 1943 - German mine laying operation north of Corsica
    Corsica
    Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

    , France
  • Operation Ausladung 1943 - German offensive near Tunis, Tunisia in conjunction with Operation Ochsenkopf
  • Operation Braun 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Yugoslavia
  • Operation Brunhild 1943 - German planned evacuation from the Caucasus region in Southern USSR
  • Operation Burdock 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in USSR
  • Operation Büffel-Bewegung 1943 - German evacuation of Rzhev
    Rzhev
    Rzhev is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, southwest of Staritsa and from Tver, on the highway and railway connecting Moscow and Riga. It is the uppermost town situated on the Volga River. Population:...

    , USSR
  • Operation Cannae 1943 - German occupation of Zagreb
    Zagreb
    Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

    , Sisak
    Sisak
    Sisak is a city in central Croatia. The city's population in 2011 was 33,049, with a total of 49,699 in the administrative region and it is also the administrative centre of the Sisak-Moslavina county...

    , and Bjelovar
    Bjelovar
    Bjelovar is a city in central Croatia. It is the administrative centre of Bjelovar-Bilogora County. During the 2001 census, there were 41,869 inhabitants, 90.51% which are Croats....

     in Yugoslavia
  • Operation Delphin
    Operation Delphin
    Operation Delphin was an anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia that took place in World War II, from 15 November to 1 December 1943...

     1943 - German anti-partisan operation in the Dalmatian islands in Adriatic Sea
    Adriatic Sea
    The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges...

  • Operation Delphin
    Operation Delphin
    Operation Delphin was an anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia that took place in World War II, from 15 November to 1 December 1943...

     1943 - German withdrawal from Saaremaa
    Saaremaa
    Saaremaa is the largest island in Estonia, measuring 2,673 km². The main island of Saare County, it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hiiumaa island, and belongs to the West Estonian Archipelago...

    , Estonia
  • Operation Delta 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Western Greece
  • Operation Domino 1943 - German second aborted German Arctic sortie by Scharnhorst
    German battleship Scharnhorst
    Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship and battlecruiser, of the German Kriegsmarine. She was the lead ship of her class, which included one other ship, Gneisenau. The ship was built at the Kriegsmarinewerft dockyard in Wilhelmshaven; she was laid down on 15...

    , Prinz Eugen
    German cruiser Prinz Eugen
    Prinz Eugen was an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, the third member of the class of five vessels. She served with the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship was laid down in April 1936 and launched August 1938; Prinz Eugen entered service after the outbreak of war, in August 1940...

    , and supporting destroyers
  • Operation Donnerkeil
    Operation Donnerkeil
    Unternehmen Donnerkeil was the codename for a German military operation of the Second World War. Donnerkeil was designed as an air superiority operation to support the Kriegsmarine Operation Cerberus, also known as the "Channel Dash".In 1941 Kriegsmarine surface vessels had carried out commerce...

     1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Yugoslavia
  • Operation Donnerschlag
    Operation Donnerschlag
    During World War II, the German military planned or undertook an operation named Donnerschlag .The December 1942 German Army plan called for a breakout from the besieged city of Stalingrad by the German Sixth Army and there meet up with the relief Operation Wintergewitter...

     1943 - German anti-partisan operation along the Obdol River in USSR
  • Operation Draufgänger 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in USSR
  • Operation Eiche 1943 - German operation to rescue Benito Mussolini
    Benito Mussolini
    Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

     from Allied imprisonment
  • Operation Eilbote I 1943 - German attacks on Allied positions at the Dorsal Mountains in Tunisia
  • Operation Eilbote II 1943 - German cancelled planned attacks on Allied positions at the Dorsal Mountains in Tunisia following Operation Eilbote I
  • Operation Eisb 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Bryansk, USSR
  • Operation Eisbär
    Battle of Kos
    The Battle of Kos was a brief battle between British, Italian and German forces for the control of the Greek island of Kos, in the then Italian-held Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea.-Background:...

     1943 - German invasion of Kos
    Kos
    Kos or Cos is a Greek island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos. It measures by , and is from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Kos peripheral unit, which is...

    , Greece
  • Operation Eisenhammer
    Operation Eisenhammer
    Operation Eisenhammer was a planned strategic bombing operation against power generators near Moscow and Gorky in the Soviet Union which was planned by Nazi Germany during World War II but eventually abandoned....

     1943 - German planned aerial bombing operation against power generators in Moscow and Gorky
    Nizhny Novgorod
    Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...

    , USSR
  • Operation Eisfjord 1943 - German naval bombardment
    Naval gunfire support
    Naval gunfire support is the use of naval artillery to provide fire support for amphibious assault and other troops operating within their range. NGFS is one of a number of disciplines encompassed by the term Naval Fires...

     of Spitsbergen
    Spitsbergen
    Spitsbergen is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Constituting the western-most bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea...

    , Svalbard
    Svalbard
    Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic, constituting the northernmost part of Norway. It is located north of mainland Europe, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The group of islands range from 74° to 81° north latitude , and from 10° to 35° east longitude. Spitsbergen is the...

    , Norway
  • Operation Erntefest I 1943 - German anti-partisan operation west of Ossipovichi, USSR
  • Operation Erntefest II 1943 - German anti-partisan operation near Minsk
    Minsk
    - Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

     and Slutsk
    Slutsk
    Slutsk is a town in Belarus, located on the Sluch River south of Minsk. As of 2010 its population is of 61,400).-Geography:The town is situated in the south-west of its Voblast, not too far from from the city of Soligorsk.-History:...

    , Belorussia
  • Operation Ferdinand
    Operation Ferdinand
    Operation Ferdinand can refer to 2 operations in World War 2:* In 1944, Operation Ferdinand was an Allied deception plan, which supported the invasion of southern France in August 1944 by leading the Germans to believe that the objective of the invasion was the Genoa region of Italy.* In 1942,...

     1943 - German anti-partisan operation in the Fruška gora Mountains in Syrmia in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Ferkel 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Bryansk, USSR
  • Operation Feuerstein 1943 - German defensive build-up
    Mountain warfare
    Mountain warfare refers to warfare in the mountains or similarly rough terrain. This type of warfare is also called Alpine warfare, named after the Alps mountains...

     of the Italian Alpine passes
  • Operation Fliederblüte 1943 - German attack of British units at the “Banana Ridge” in Tunisia
  • Operation Franz 1943 - German commando operation against British supply lines in Iran
  • Operation Freischütz 1943 - German anti-partisan operation
  • Operation Fronttheater 1943 - German first aborted German Arctic sortie by Scharnhorst, Prinz Eugen, and destroyers
  • Operation Gamma 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Yugoslavia
  • Operation Gesellenprüfung 1943 - German mine laying operation via S-Boat
    S-boat
    S-boat may refer to:*Schnellboot, German torpedo boat*United States S class submarine*British World War One S-class submarine*British World War Two S-class submarine...

    s
  • Operation Günther 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Smolensk
    Smolensk
    Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River. Situated west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler. Today, Smolensk...

    , USSR prior to Operation Zitadelle
  • Operation Habicht 1943 - German anti-partisan operation
  • Operation Hagen 1943 - German operation in the Caucasus region of Southern USSR
  • Operation Hagen Bewegung 1943 - German evacuation operation near Oryol
    Oryol
    Oryol or Orel is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River, approximately south-southwest of Moscow...

    , USSR
  • Operation Haifisch
    Operation Haifisch
    Operation Haifisch was a German codename for the cover operation against Great Britain in World War II, intended to conceal preparations for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union....

     1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Trogir
    Trogir
    Trogir is a historic town and harbour on the Adriatic coast in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia, with a population of 12,995 and a total municipality population of 13,322 . The historic city of Trogir is situated on a small island between the Croatian mainland and the island of Čiovo...

     in Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Hamburg 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Bryansk, USSR
  • Operation Hasenjagd 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Gomel, Belorussia
  • Operation Herbstgewitter I 1943 - German anti-partisan operation at Peljesac peninsula in the Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Herbstgewitter II 1943 - German anti-partisan operation at Peljesac peninsula in the Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Herbstgewitter III 1943 - German anti-partisan operations at the islands of Mljet, Hvar, Brac, and Solta off the coast of Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Herbstgewitter IV 1943 - German anti-partisan operations at the islands of Mljet, Hvar, Brac, and Solta off the coast of Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Hermann 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Vilnius
    Vilnius
    Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...

     and Polotsk, Belorussia
  • Operation Hermelin 1943 - German cruiser Lützow operation in the Baltic Sea
    Baltic Sea
    The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...

  • Operation Hornung
    Operation Hornung
    Operation Hornung was an anti-partisan operation during the Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany, carried out in February 1943. It was directed against the area Hancewicze-Morocz-Lenin-Łuniniec, a thinly populated area of about 4,000 square kilometers southwest of Słuck on the southern border of...

     1943 - German anti-partisan operation
  • Operation Hubertus 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Pindus Mountains region of Greece
  • Operation Husar 1943 - German cancelled planned anti-shipping operation in Kara Sea by Lützow
  • Operation Insel 1943 - German action at Hydra Island, Greece
  • Operation Istrien 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Northern Italy
    Northern Italy
    Northern Italy is a wide cultural, historical and geographical definition, without any administrative usage, used to indicate the northern part of the Italian state, also referred as Settentrione or Alta Italia...

  • Operation Karin 1943 - German deployment of naval vessels in the English Channel
    English Channel
    The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...

  • Operation Kiebitz
    Operation Kiebitz
    Operation Kiebitz was a failed Kriegsmarine operation during World War II in 1943 to organize an escape of four skilled German U-boat commanders from a Canadian POW camp . Its counterattack by the Royal Canadian Navy, Operation Pointe Maisonnette in Chaleur Bay became a key operation in the Battle...

     1943 - German POW rescue operation via submarine navigation of the St. Lawrence River in Canada
  • Operation Konstantin 1943 - German seizure of Italian equipment and territory upon the Italian surrender
  • Operation Kopenhagen 1943 - German defensive build-up of the French and Italian Alpine passes
  • Operation Kormoran 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Minsk and Borisov, Belorussia
  • Operation Krimhilde Bewegung 1943 - German evacuation of the Caucasus region in Southern USSR
  • Operation Kuckucksei 1943 - German cancelled planned attack on British units at the Fondouk Pass, Tunisia
  • Operation Kugelblitz 1943 - German anti-partisan operation near Vitebsk
    Vitebsk
    Vitebsk, also known as Viciebsk or Vitsyebsk , is a city in Belarus, near the border with Russia. The capital of the Vitebsk Oblast, in 2004 it had 342,381 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth largest city...

    , Belarus
  • Operation Landsturm 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Makarska
    Makarska
    Makarska is a small town on the Adriatic coastline of Croatia, about southeast of Split and northwest of Dubrovnik. It has a population of 13,716 residents. Administratively Makarska has the status of a town and it is part of the Split-Dalmatia County....

     in Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Leander 1943 - German anti-partisan operation across the Lika Mountains to Zadar
    Zadar
    Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens...

     on the coast of the Independent State of Croatia after
  • Operation Lehrgang 1943 - German evacuation of Sicily
    Sicily
    Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

    , Italy over the Strait of Messina
    Strait of Messina
    The Strait of Messina is the narrow passage between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the south of Italy. It connects the Tyrrhenian Sea with the Ionian Sea, within the central Mediterranean...

  • Operation Leopard
    Battle of Leros
    The Battle of Leros was the central event of the Dodecanese Campaign of the Second World War, and is widely used as an alternate name for the whole campaign. Leros was occupied by British forces on 15 September 1943...

     1943 - German landings on Leros
    Leros
    Leros is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies 317 km from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by an 11-hour ferry ride . Leros is part of the Kalymnos peripheral unit...

     of the Dodecanese Islands, Greece
  • Operation Lika 1943 - German planned anti-partisan operation against Josip Broz Tito
    Josip Broz Tito
    Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...

     in Yugoslavia
  • Operation Maigewitter 1943 - German anti-partisan operation
  • Operation Michael
    Operation Michael
    Operation Michael was a First World War German military operation that began the Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918. It was launched from the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, France...

     1943 - German cancelled planned evacuation of Crimea
    Crimea
    Crimea , or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , is a sub-national unit, an autonomous republic, of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name...

  • Operation Morgenluft 1943 - German attack on Gafsa
    Gafsa
    Gafsa is the capital of Gafsa Governorate of Tunisia. Its name was appropriated by archaeologists for the Mesolithic Capsian culture. With a population of 84,676, it is the 9th Tunisian city.-Overview:...

    , Tunisia
  • Operation Nachbarhilfe I 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Bryansk, USSR
  • Operation Nachbarhilfe I 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Mglin
    Mglin
    Mglin is a town in Mglinsky District of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Sudynka River west of Bryansk. Population: Mglin was first mentioned in 1389, though the settlement it was built on had existed since the 12th century. Its main landmark is the Assumption Cathedral .Ethnically, it is...

    , USSR
  • Operation Nelly U 1943 - German towing of a 3,000-ton drydock from Mariupol
    Mariupol
    Mariupol , formerly known as Zhdanov , is a port city in southeastern Ukraine. It is located on the coast of the Azov Sea, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Mariupol is the largest city in Priazovye - a geographical region around Azov Sea, divided by Russia and Ukraine - and is also a popular sea...

     to Odessa
    Odessa
    Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

    , Ukraine
  • Operation Neptun 1943 - German counter-offensive
    Counter-offensive
    A counter-offensive is the term used by the military to describe large-scale, usually strategic offensive operations by forces that had successfully halted an enemy's offensive, while occupying defensive positions....

     at Myschanko-Berg
    Berg
    Berg is the word for mountain in various Germanic languages, and may also refer to:-People:* Alban Berg , Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.* Paul Berg Berg is the word for mountain in various Germanic languages, and may also refer to:-People:* Alban Berg (1885-1935), Austrian...

     during the Battle of Stalingrad
  • Operation Nürnberg 1943 - German planned response in case of an Allied invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, focusing largely around the defence of the Pyrenees passes
  • Operation Olivenernte 1943 - German cancelled planned attack on Majaz al Bab
    Majaz al Bab
    Majaz al Bab is a town in northern Tunisia. It is located at approximately , at the intersection of roads GP5 and GP6, in the Plaine de la Mejerda.-Commonwealth war grave site:...

    , Tunisia
  • Operation Orange 1943 - German convoy off Temryuk
    Temryuk
    Temryuk is the largest town and the administrative center of Temryuksky District of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Taman peninsula on the right bank of the Kuban River not far from its entry into the Temryuk Bay, amid a field of mud volcanoes. The seaport of Temryuk is situated from the...

    , Southern USSR in the Sea of Azov
    Sea of Azov
    The Sea of Azov , known in Classical Antiquity as Lake Maeotis, is a sea on the south of Eastern Europe. It is linked by the narrow Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea to the south and is bounded on the north by Ukraine mainland, on the east by Russia, and on the west by the Ukraine's Crimean...

  • Operation Panther 1943 - German anti-partisan operation at Mesovan Pass in Southeastern Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Panther 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Greece
  • Operation Panther 1943 - German anti-partisan operation near Kursk
    Kursk
    Kursk is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym Rivers. The area around Kursk was site of a turning point in the Russian-German struggle during World War II and the site of the largest tank battle in history...

    , USSR after Operation Zitadelle
  • Operation Panzerfaust
    Operation Panzerfaust
    Operation Panzerfaust, known as Unternehmen Eisenfaust in Germany, was a military operation to keep the Kingdom of Hungary at Germany's side in the war, conducted in October 1944 by the German military...

     1943 - German operation to kidnap Miklós Horthy
    Miklós Horthy
    Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944. Horthy was styled "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary" .Admiral Horthy was an officer of the...

    's son to prevent Horthy from siding with the Allies; codename later changed to Maus
  • Operation Parnass 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Lamia
    Lamia (city)
    Lamia is a city in central Greece. The city has a continuous history since antiquity, and is today the capital of the regional unit of Phthiotis and of the Central Greece region .-Name:...

    , Greece
  • Operation Paula
    Operation Paula
    Unternehmen Paula is the German codename given for the Second World War Luftwaffe offensive operation to destroy the remaining units of the Armée de l'Air , or French Air Force during the Battle of France in 1940. On 10 May the German armed forces began its invasion of Western Europe...

     1943 - German anti-partisan operation north of the Sava River
    Sava River
    The Sava is a river in Southeast Europe, a right side tributary of the Danube river at Belgrade. Counting from Zelenci, the source of Sava Dolinka, it is long and drains of surface area. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia, along the northern border of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and through Serbia....

     in Serbia
    Serbia
    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

    , Yugoslavia
  • Operation Poseidon 1943 - German operation against British troops on the Greek island of Samos; part of Operation Zwischenspiel
  • Operation Puma 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Greece
  • Operation Rabat 1943 - German plan to kidnap
    Kidnapping
    In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority...

     the Pope
    Pope
    The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, a position that makes him the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle...

     from the Vatican City
    Vatican City
    Vatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...

  • Operation Regatta I 1943 - German artillery bombardment of the Strait of Kerch between the Black Sea
    Black Sea
    The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...

     and the Sea of Azov
  • Operation Reinhard
    Operation Reinhard
    Operation Reinhard was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, and marked the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps...

     1943 - German systematic murder of Polish intelligentia; phase I of the German 'Final Solution'
  • Operation Safari 1943 - German SS operation to disband the Danish military
  • Operation Schneesturm 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Bosnia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Schnepfe 1943 - German anti-partisan operation north of Vitebsk, Belorussia in conjunction with Operation Wildente
  • Operation Schwarz 1943 - German plan in the event of an Italian surrender
  • Operation Seehund 1943 - German submarine mining operation
  • Operation Seeräuber 1943 - German failed landing on the island of Brac off the coast of Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Siegfried 1943 - German plan to deploy Italian units to Southern France
    Southern France
    Southern France , colloquially known as le Midi is defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Gironde, Spain, the Mediterranean, and Italy...

     after Italian surrender
  • Operation Sizilien 1943 - German raid on Allied occupied Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway
  • Operation Theodor 1943 - German convoy off Temryuk, Southern USSR in the Sea of Azov
  • Operation Tiger
    Operation Tiger
    Operation Tiger, a 1994 military operation in the War in Bosnia and HerzegovinaOperation Tiger may also refer to:* Operation Tiger , the successful German assault on the French Fortified Sector of the Sarre during the Battle of France in 1940...

     1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Greece
  • Operation Toni 1943 - German convoy off Temryuk, Southern USSR in the Sea of Azov
  • Operation Trave 1943 - German escort operations for blockade runner
    Blockade runner
    A blockade runner is usually a lighter weight ship used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait, as opposed to confronting the blockaders to break the blockade. Very often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo, for example to bring food or arms to a blockaded city...

    s
  • Operation Ulm 1943 - German planned aerial bombing operation against Soviet industries in the Ural Mountains
  • Operation Ursula 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Rogachev, Belorussia
  • Operation Waldwinter 1943 - German anti-partisan operation north of Vitebsk, Belorussia
  • Operation Weihnachtsmann 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in the Balkans
  • Operation Weiß I 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Sarajevo
    Sarajevo
    Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....

    , Bosnia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Weiß II 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia; continuation of Operation Weiß I
  • Operation Wiking 1943 - German operations in the Caucasus region of Southern USSR
  • Operation Wildente 1943 - German anti-partisan operation north of Vitebsk, Belorussia in conjunction with Operation Schnepfe
  • Operation Wildsau 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in USSR
  • Operation Wildsau 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Tuzla
    Tuzla
    Tuzla is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the time of the 1991 census, it had 83,770 inhabitants, while the municipality 131,318. Taking the influx of refugees into account, the city is currently estimated to have 174,558 inhabitants...

    , Bosnia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Winterzauber 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Lithuania
    Lithuania
    Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

  • Operation Wolkenbruch 1943 - German failed anti-partisan operation in Northern Yugoslavia
  • Operation Wulf 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Kordun
    Kordun
    The Kordun region is a part of central Croatia from the bottom of the Petrova Gora mountain range, which extends along the rivers Korana and Slunjčica, and forms part of the border region to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The southern border of Kordun touches the Lika region...

    , Bosnia, Banovina and Turopolje
    Turopolje
    Turopolje is a region in Croatia situated between the capital city Zagreb and Sisak. The administrative center of the region Turopolje is the town of Velika Gorica.-Overview:...

     in Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Wunderland II 1943 - German planned naval operation involving cruiser Admiral Scheer in the East Siberian Sea
    East Siberian Sea
    The East Siberian Sea is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape to the north, the coast of Siberia to the south, the New Siberian Islands to the west and Cape Billings, close to Chukotka, and Wrangel Island to the east...

  • Operation Yarmouth 1943 - German artillery bombardment of Yeysk
    Yeysk
    -External links:* *...

    , USSR
  • Operation Ziethen 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Livno
    Livno
    Livno is a town in western Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located between Tomislavgrad, Glamoč, Bosansko Grahovo, Kupres and the Croatian border.- Position :...

    , Bosnia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Ziethen 1943 - German planned evacuation from the Demyansk Pocket near Leningrad, USSR
  • Operation Zigeunerbaron 1943 - German anti-partisan operation in Bryansk, USSR
  • Operation Zitadelle 1943 - German offensive at Kursk, USSR
  • Operation Zitronella
    Operation Zitronella
    Operation Zitronella, also known as Operation Sizilien was an eight-hour German raid on Spitzbergen on 8 September 1943.-Background:...

     1943 - German raid against a Norwegian/British station at the Svalbard Islands
  • Operation Zwischenspiel 1943 - German attack on the Greek island of Samos; part of Operation Leopard
  • Operation Ostfront
    Operation Ostfront
    Operation Ostfront was the sortie into the Arctic Ocean by the German warship Scharnhorst during World War II. This operation culminated in the sinking of Scharnhorst.-Background:...

     1943 - German final German operation of Scharnhorst to intercept convoy JW-55B
  • Operation Paderborn 1943 - German third and successful German transfer of Scharnhorst and destroyers from the Baltic Sea to Narvik, Norway

1944

  • Operation Arras 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Lipik
    Lipik
    -Settlements:The settlements included in the administrative area of Lipik include:* Antunovac, population 365* Bjelanovac, population 10* Brekinska, population 126* Brezine, population 223* Bujavica, population 33* Bukovčani, population 16...

    -Novska
    Novska
    Novska is a town in Croatian Slavonia, located between Kutina and Nova Gradiška, southeast of the capital, Zagreb. It has a total population of 13,573 in the following settlements:* Bair, population 6* Borovac, population 276* Brestača, population 911...

    -Okučani
    Okucani
    Okučani is a village in western Slavonia, Croatia. It is located at the contact point between the Posavina plain and the southern slopes of Psunj; 19 km southeast of Novska and 17 km west of Nova Gradiška; elevation 119 m. Chief occupations are farming, livestock breeding, fishing and...

     region in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Bergwiese 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation on the Primošten
    Primošten
    Primošten is a town in Croatia, and a part of the Šibenik-Knin County. It is situated in the south, between the cities of Šibenik and Trogir, on the Adriatic coast. 97.03% of the citizens are Croats.-History:...

     Peninsula in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Bienenhaus 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Moslavina
    Moslavina
    Moslavina is a microregion in Croatia, administratively divided into the counties of Zagreb, Sisak-Moslavina and Bjelovar-Bilogora. The main city in the region in terms of traffic, commerce and business is the city of Kutina , with 24,000 citizens. Other important centres are Ivanić grad , Čazma,...

     Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Blitz 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Našice
    Našice
    Našice is a town in the Osijek-Baranja county of Croatia, population 7,894 , total municipality population 16,228 . It is located on the northern slopes of Krndija Mountain in eastern Slavonia, 51 km southwest of Osijek; elevation 157 m....

    -Đakovo region of Slavonia
    Slavonia
    Slavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia...

    , Yugoslavia
  • Operation Brandfackel 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Kozara
    Kozara
    Kozara is a mountain in western Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Bosanska Krajina region. It is bounded by the rivers Sava - north, Vrbas - east, Sana - south and Una - west...

     Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Cannae 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the area between the Sava and Drava Rivers in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Casanova 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Independent State of Croatia utilizing German aircraft to deceive partisan fighters
  • Operation Dreznica 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Velika Kapela
    Velika Kapela
    The Velika Kapela is a large mountain range in the east of Gorski Kotar, Croatia.The highest peak is Bjelolasica-Kula at 1533 m.a.s.l.. It overlooks Velebit, Plješivica, islands Krk, Cres, Lošinj, and the Kvarner Gulf....

     Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia to secure a supply route
  • Operation Dubrovnik 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation along the road between Zagreb
    Zagreb
    Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

     and Varazdin
    Varaždin
    Varaždin is a city in north Croatia, north of Zagreb on the highway A4. The total population is 47,055, with 38,746 on of the city settlement itself . The centre of Varaždin county is located near the Drava river, at...

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Dubrovnik II 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation along the road between Zagreb and Varazdin in the Independent State of Croatia; continuation of Operation Dubrovnik
  • Operation Dünkirchen I 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Krašić
    Krašic
    Krašić is a village in central Croatia, located near Jastrebarsko and Ozalj, south of Žumberak and north of Kupa, about 50 km southwest of Zagreb. Krašić comprises an area of about 3.63 km²...

     region in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Dünkirchen II 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Krašić region in the Independent State of Croatia; continuation of Operation Dünkirchen I
  • Operation Emil 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation west of Knin
    Knin
    Knin is a historical town in the Šibenik-Knin county of Croatia, located near the source of the river Krka at , in the Dalmatian hinterland, on the railroad Zagreb–Split. Knin rose to prominence twice in history, as a one-time capital of both the Kingdom of Croatia and briefly of the...

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Falke 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Papuk
    Papuk
    Papuk is the largest mountain in the Slavonia region in eastern Croatia, near the city of Požega. It extends between Bilogora to the northwest, Krndija to the east, and Ravna gora and Psunj to the southwest....

     Mountain and Bilogora
    Bilogora
    Bilogora is a low mountainous range in central Croatia. It consists of a series of hills and small plains some 80 kilometres in length stretching in the direction northwest-southeast, along the southwest part of the Podravina region...

     Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Frühlingswetter 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the area between Knin and Kistanje
    Kistanje
    Kistanje is a village and municipality in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. According to the 2001 census, Kistanje municipality has 3,038 inhabitants of which 57.14% are Serbs and 41.31% are Croats.-History:...

     in the Independent State of Croatia to secure a supply route
  • Operation Fuchsjagd 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Ivanščica
    Ivanšćica
    Ivanšćica, also sometimes spelled Ivanščica and Ivančica, is a mountain in northern Croatia. The highest peak is the eponymous Ivanšćica at .The rivers of Bednja, Lonja, Krapina and Veliki potok rise and flow in the area....

     Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Fuchsjagd III 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Kalnik
    Kalnik
    Kalnik is a municipality in the Koprivnica-Križevci County in Croatia. According to the 2011 census, there are 1,361 inhabitants in the area.-References:...

     Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Föhn 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation west of Banja Luka
    Banja Luka
    -History:The name "Banja Luka" was first mentioned in a document dated February 6, 1494, but Banja Luka's history dates back to ancient times. There is a substantial evidence of the Roman presence in the region during the first few centuries A.D., including an old fort "Kastel" in the centre of...

     to open the road between Bosanski Novi and Prijedor
    Prijedor
    Prijedor is a city and municipality in the north-western part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the Bosanska Krajina region....

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Ingeborg 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation east of Karlovac
    Karlovac
    Karlovac is a city and municipality in central Croatia. The city proper has a population of 49,082, while the municipality has a population of 59,395 inhabitants .Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County...

     and north of the Kupa River in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Jajce 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Vrbas Valley in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Kastanie 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Prijedor
    Prijedor
    Prijedor is a city and municipality in the north-western part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the Bosanska Krajina region....

    -Sanski Most
    Sanski Most
    Sanski Most is a town and municipality in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located on the Sana River in Bosanska Krajina, between Prijedor and Ključ. Administratively it is part of the Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina....

    -Omarska
    Omarska
    Omarska is a small town near Prijedor in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It includes an old iron mine and ore processing plant...

     area in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Kaub 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation at the Sava River in the Independent State of Croatia, destroying all boat
    Boat
    A boat is a watercraft of any size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water. Usually this water will be inland or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In naval terms, a boat is a...

    s and ferries
    Ferry
    A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...

  • Operation Kornblume 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Fruška gora
    Fruška Gora
    Fruška Gora is a mountain in north Syrmia. Most part of the territory is located within Vojvodina, Serbia, but a smaller part on its western side overlaps the territory of Croatia...

     Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Lauffeuer 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the area south of Šid
    Šid
    Šid is a town and municipality in the Srem District of Vojvodina, Serbia. Šid town has a population of 16,301, and Šid municipality 38,921.-Name:...

     and near Ilok
    Ilok
    Ilok is the easternmost town and municipality in Croatia. Located in the Syrmia region, it lies on a hill overlooking the Danube river, which forms the border with the Vojvodina region of Serbia. The population of the town of Ilok is 5,036, while the total municipality population is 6,750...

     in Syrmia in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Morgenstern 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Krbavsko Polje plain in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Nibelungenfahrt 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Krbavsko Polje plain in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Reinhard
    Operation Reinhard
    Operation Reinhard was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, and marked the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps...

     1944 - Axis occupation of ore mines in and around Ljubija
    Ljubija
    Ljubija may refer to:*Ljubija , a small town in the municipality of Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina.*Ljubija river, a river in Slovenia.Ljubija, a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina is situated in North-West part of Bosnia, in the Bosanska Krajina region...

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Renate 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation on the Murter
    Murter
    Murter is name of the island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic sea, located in central Dalmatia at , as well as that of a small village on the north-western part of the island....

     Peninsula in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Rouen 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation at the Kalnik
    Kalnik
    Kalnik is a municipality in the Koprivnica-Križevci County in Croatia. According to the 2011 census, there are 1,361 inhabitants in the area.-References:...

     Mountains south of the Ludbreg
    Ludbreg
    Ludbreg is a town in Croatia, located halfway between Varaždin and Koprivnica near the river Drava. It has 3,594 inhabitants, and a total of 8,458 in the entire municipality .-History:...

    -Koprivnica
    Koprivnica
    Koprivnica is a city in northern Croatia. It is the capital of the Koprivnica-Križevci county. In 2011 the city administrative area had a total population of 30,872, with 23,896 in the city itself.-Population:...

     Line in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Sarajevo 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation west of the Sesvete
    Sesvete
    Sesvete is one of the districts of Zagreb, Croatia. It is located in the eastern part of the city and has 59,212 inhabitants .-Administrative division:...

    -Varaždin
    Varaždin
    Varaždin is a city in north Croatia, north of Zagreb on the highway A4. The total population is 47,055, with 38,746 on of the city settlement itself . The centre of Varaždin county is located near the Drava river, at...

     road in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Schach 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Kordun
    Kordun
    The Kordun region is a part of central Croatia from the bottom of the Petrova Gora mountain range, which extends along the rivers Korana and Slunjčica, and forms part of the border region to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The southern border of Kordun touches the Lika region...

     and Banija
    Banija
    Banovina is a geographical region in central Croatia, between the rivers Sava, Una, and Kupa. Main towns in the region include Petrinja, Glina, Kostajnica, and Dvor. The area is almost entirely located in the Sisak-Moslavina county...

     regions in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Schlüsselblume 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in western Slavonia
    Slavonia
    Slavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia...

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Schneeschmelze 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Zaprešić
    Zaprešic
    Zaprešić is a city in Zagreb County in Croatia. Its population is 25.875 inhabitants for the city proper, and over 51,000 for its seven-municipality metropolitan area. Zaprešić is the third-largest, and most densely populated division of the county. It is located northwest of the Croatian capital...

    -Krapinske Toplice
    Krapinske Toplice
    Krapinske Toplice is a village and municipality in Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia. According to the 2001 census, there are 5,744 inhabitants in the area, absolute majority of which are Croats.The settlements in the municipality are:* Čret, population 664...

    -Klanjec
    Klanjec
    Klanjec is a small town in northwestern Croatia, in the region of Hrvatsko Zagorje on the border with Slovenia. The population of Klanjec is 565, but there are 2,915 people in the municipality...

     area in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Steinschlag 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation near Otočac
    Otocac
    Otočac is a town in Lika, Croatia. It lies in the northwestern part of Lika, in the Gacka river valley. The population of the town is 4,354 as of 2001, with a total of 10,411 people within the municipality at large, the majority of whom are Croats ....

     and Vrhovine
    Vrhovine
    Vrhovine is a town and a municipality in Lika-Senj County, Croatia. The municipality is part of Lika.-Population/Demographics:According to 2001 census, Vrhovine had 905 inhabitants of which 55.03% were Serbs and 38.45% were Croats. The majority of the population of the municipality is elderly...

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Trolist 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Zaistovec
    Zaistovec
    Zaistovec is a village in Croatia....

    -Preseka
    Preseka
    Preseka is a municipality in Croatia in the Zagreb County. According to the 2001, there are 1,670 inhabitants, absolute majority which are Croats....

     region in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Ungewitter 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Papuk Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Wildsau 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation west of the railroad connecting Đurmanec and Krapinske Toplice
    Krapinske Toplice
    Krapinske Toplice is a village and municipality in Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia. According to the 2001 census, there are 5,744 inhabitants in the area, absolute majority of which are Croats.The settlements in the municipality are:* Čret, population 664...

     in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Wintergewitter
    Operation Wintergewitter
    Operation Winter Storm was a German offensive in World War II, undertaken between 12–23 December 1942, in which the German 4th Panzer-Armee failed to break the encirclement of Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad....

     1944 - Axis attack on the US Army in the Appennine mountains, Italy
  • Operation Zumberak IV 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Plesivica Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Antimon 1944 - German operations in Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

  • Operation Aster 1944 - German evacuation of Estonia
    Estonia
    Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

  • Operation Birke
    Operation Birke
    Operation Birke refers to German operation late in the World War II in Finnish Lapland.-Background:Finnish attempts to find and acceptable exit from the war in spring 1944 alarmed Germans who had sizable stores in Northern Finland...

     1944 - German plan to withdraw
    Withdrawal
    Withdrawal can refer to any sort of separation, but is most commonly used to describe the group of symptoms that occurs upon the abrupt discontinuation/separation or a decrease in dosage of the intake of medications, recreational drugs, and alcohol...

     from northern Finland prior to the Lapland War
    Lapland War
    The Lapland War were the hostilities between Finland and Nazi Germany between September 1944 and April 1945, fought in Finland's northernmost Lapland Province. While the Finns saw this as a separate conflict much like the Continuation War, German forces considered their actions to be part of the...

  • Operation Blei 1944 - German operations in Romania
  • Fall Blume I 1944 - German defence plan in case of an Allied invasion of Northern France
  • Fall Blume II 1944 - German defence plan in case of an Allied invasion of Southern France
    Southern France
    Southern France , colloquially known as le Midi is defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Gironde, Spain, the Mediterranean, and Italy...

  • Operation Braunschweig
    Operation Braunschweig
    Operation Braunschweig , named for the German city, was the German summer offensive that began on 28 June 1942. The operation was initially named Fall Blau , which is the common name used for the whole offensive. The name was changed from Blau to Braunschweig on 30 June...

     1944 - German anti-partisan operation in the Istria
    Istria
    Istria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner...

     Peninsula, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Christrose 1944 - German early name for Wacht am Rhein
    Battle of the Bulge
    The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive , launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name , and France and...

  • Operation Doppelkopf
    Operation Doppelkopf
    Operation Doppelkopf and the following Operation Cäsar were German counter-offensives on the Eastern Front late in 1944 in the aftermath of the major Soviet advance in Operation Bagration....

     1944 - German offensive to relieve troops fighting in Latvia
    Latvia
    Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

  • Operation Doppelsprung 1944 - German planned evacuation of bridgehead
    Bridgehead
    A bridgehead is a High Middle Ages military term, which antedating the invention of cannons was in the original meaning expressly a referent term to the military fortification that protects the end of a bridge...

    s at the river Maas (Meuse) west of Arnhem
    Arnhem
    Arnhem is a city and municipality, situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland and located near the river Nederrijn as well as near the St. Jansbeek, which was the source of the city's development. Arnhem has 146,095 residents as one of the...

    , the Netherlands
  • Operation Draufgänger 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Montenegro, Yugoslavia and in Northern Albania
  • Operation Einhorn 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Greece
  • Operation Elster
    Operation Elster
    Operation Elster was a Nazi German mission to gather intelligence on and sabotage the Manhattan Project during World War II. The mission was commenced in 1944 with Nazi agents sailing from Kiel, Germany on the U-1230, coming ashore in Maine on November 30, 1944...

     1944 - German infiltration of agents into the US to gather intelligence on Manhattan Project
    Manhattan Project
    The Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...

  • Operation Ernteeinbringung 1944 - German anti-partisan operation east of Zagreb
    Zagreb
    Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

    , Yugoslavia
  • Fall Falke 1944 - German defence plan in case of an Allied invasion of Norway
  • Operation Feuerwehr 1944 - German failed planned anti-partisan operation in Macedonia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Feuerzange 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in the Dalmatian islands in Adriatic Sea
  • Operation Feuerzauber 1944 - German destruction of bridges near Florence
    Florence
    Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

    , Italy
  • Operation Fischfang 1944 - German counterattack to the Allied invasion at Anzio
    Anzio
    Anzio is a city and comune on the coast of the Lazio region of Italy, about south of Rome.Well known for its seaside harbour setting, it is a fishing port and a departure point for ferries and hydroplanes to the Pontine Islands of Ponza, Palmarola and Ventotene...

    , Italy
  • Operation Fliegenfänger 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Memici and Osmaci
    Osmaci
    Osmaci is a village and a municipality located in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Republika Srpska entity of BiH.-History:...

     in Bosnia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Forelle 1944 - German operation to disrupt Soviet supply lines on the Danube River near Budapest
    Budapest
    Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

    , Hungary
  • Fall Forelle I 1944 - German defence plan in case of an Allied invasion of the Balkans via the Adriatic Sea
  • Fall Forelle II 1944 - German defence plan in case of an Allied invasion of the Balkans via the Aegean Sea
  • Operation Freischütz 1944 - German cancelled planned operation to occupy the island of Vis off Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Freischütz 1944 - German relief operation for troops trapped near Minsk
    Minsk
    - Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

    , Belorussia
  • Operation Frühling 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in the Jura Mountains
    Jura mountains
    The Jura Mountains are a small mountain range located north of the Alps, separating the Rhine and Rhone rivers and forming part of the watershed of each...

     in Southern France
    Southern France
    Southern France , colloquially known as le Midi is defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Gironde, Spain, the Mediterranean, and Italy...

  • Operation Frühlingsanfang 1944 - German anti-partisan operation at Primorska and Gorenjska in Slovenia
    Slovenia
    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

    , Yugoslavia
  • Operation Frühlingsfest 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Lepel, Belorussia as a follow-up operation of Operation Regenschauer
  • Operation Gemsbock 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in the region near the Greek-Albanian border before Operation Einhorn
  • Operation Greif
    Operation Greif
    Operation Greif was a special false flag operation commanded by Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny during the Battle of the Bulge. The operation was the brainchild of Adolf Hitler, and its purpose was to capture one or more of the bridges over the Meuse river before they could be destroyed...

     1944 - German infiltration of Allied rear areas using Allied uniforms; part of Wacht am Rhein
  • Operation Großer Schlag 1944 - German planned mass-deployment of fighter
    Fighter aircraft
    A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets...

    s against Allied bombers
  • Fall Hanna 1944 - German defence plan in case of an Allied invasion of Denmark
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

  • Operation Haudegen
    Operation Haudegen
    Operation Haudegen was the name of a German operation during the Second World War to establish meteorological stations on Svalbard....

     1944 - German intelligence gathering on Spitsbergen, Norway
  • Operation Heide 1944 - German flooding of parts of the Netherlands
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     to hinder Allied advance; later renamed to Operation Storch
  • Operation Heinrich 1944 - German deceptive operation in support of Wacht am Rhein
  • Operation Herbstnebel 1944 - German rejected plan to withdraw German troops in Italy behind the Po River
    Po River
    The Po |Ligurian]]: Bodincus or Bodencus) is a river that flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary – eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face...

  • Operation Heu-Aktion 1944 - German enslavement of Eastern Europe
    Eastern Europe
    Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...

    an children between the age of 10 and 15 to work in the German armament industry
  • Operation Hinein 1944 - German submarine operation against an Allied convoy in the North Atlantic Ocean
  • Operation Hohes Venn 1944 - German paratrooper operation as a part of Operation Greif of Wacht am Rhein
  • Operation Horrido 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

    , Greece
  • Operation Hundesohn 1944 - German occupation of Sofia
    Sofia
    Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

    , Bulgaria
  • Operation Ibex 1944 - German air raids on London and other nearby British cities
  • Operation Iltis 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Operation Judas 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Bulgaria
  • Kampf um Rom 1944 - German defence plan for the Nettuno area in Italy
  • Operation Koralle 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in the Sporades Islands, Greece; previously named Operation Neptun
  • Operation Kreuzotter 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Greece
  • Operation Landwirt 1944 - German submarine operation against the Allied fleet off France during the Normandy invasion
  • Operation Laura 1944 - German proposed planned evacuation of Courland
    Courland
    Courland is one of the historical and cultural regions of Latvia. The regions of Semigallia and Selonia are sometimes considered as part of Courland.- Geography and climate :...

    , Latvia
  • Operation Ludwig 1944 - German plan against an Allied landing at Livorno
    Livorno
    Livorno , traditionally Leghorn , is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of approximately 160,000 residents in 2009.- History :...

    , Italy
  • Operation Lüttich
    Operation Lüttich
    Operation Lüttich was a codename given to a German counterattack during the Battle of Normandy, which took place around the American positions near Mortain from 7 August to 13 August 1944...

     1944 - German counter-offensive at Mortain
    Mortain
    Mortain is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.-Geography:Mortain is situated on a rocky hill rising above the gorge of the Cance, a tributary of the Sélune.-Administration:Mortain is the seat of a canton...

    , France in response to Operation Cobra
    Operation Cobra
    Operation Cobra was the codename for an offensive launched by the First United States Army seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy Campaign of World War II...

  • Operation Maibaum 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Vlasenica
    Vlasenica
    Vlasenica is a municipality and town of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Administratively it is part of Vlasenica Region.-1912:...

     in Bosnia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Maigewitter 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Northern Greece
  • Fall Marder 1944 - German defence plan in case of an Allied invasion of Italy; activated after Allies launched Operation Shingle
    Operation Shingle
    Operation Shingle , during the Italian Campaign of World War II, was an Allied amphibious landing against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy. The operation was commanded by Major General John P. Lucas and was intended to outflank German forces of the Winter Line and enable an...

  • Fall Marder I 1944 - German defence plan in case of an Allied invasion of Italy via the Ligurian Sea
    Ligurian Sea
    The Ligurian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, between the Italian Riviera and the island of Corsica. The sea is probably named after the ancient Ligures people.-Geography:...

    ; part of Fall Marder
  • Fall Marder II 1944 - German defence plan in case of an Allied invasion of Italy via the Adriatic Sea; part of Fall Marder
  • Operation Margarethe I 1944 - German occupation of Hungary
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

  • Operation Margarethe II 1944 - German occupation of Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

  • Operation Martin 1944 - German planned attack of the Ardennes region as proposed by Gerd von Rundstet; rejected by Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

     for being too conservative
  • Operation Messer 1944 - German mining of the Ligurian Sea off Northern Italy
  • Operation Morgenröte 1944 - German counterattack to the Allied invasion at Anzio and Nettuno, Italy
  • Operation Morgenwind I 1944 - German landing on the island of Brač off the coast of Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Morgenwind II 1944 - German landing on the island of Šolta
    Šolta
    Šolta is an island in Croatia. It is situated in the Adriatic Sea in the central Dalmatian archipelago, west of the island of Brač, south of Split and east of the Drvenik islands . Its area is 58.98 km2 and it has a population of 1,675 .The highest peak of Šolta is the summit Vela Straža...

     off the coast of Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation München
    Operation München
    Operation München was the codename of a joint German-Romanian offensive in World War II, with the primary objective of re-capturing Bessarabia, ceded by Romania to the Soviet Union a year before. The operation concluded successfully after 24 days of fighting.Axis formations involved included the...

     1944 - German fallback to the Arno River in the Tuscany region of Italy
  • Operation Möwe V 1944 - German cancelled plan to land agents in Scotland, Britain
  • Operation Napfkuchen 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Yugoslavia
  • Operation Neptun 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in the Sporades Islands, Greece; later renamed to Operation Koralle
  • Operation Nordlicht 1944 - German withdrawal from the Kola Peninsula
    Kola Peninsula
    The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely to the north of the Arctic Circle and is washed by the Barents Sea in the north and the White Sea in the east and southeast...

     into Norway after Finland changed sides in the war
  • Operation Nordlicht-Bewegung 1944 - German troop deployment in Finland
  • Operation Nussknacker 1944 - German torpedo boat
    Torpedo boat
    A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval vessel designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs rammed enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes, and later designs launched self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. They were created to counter battleships and other large, slow and...

     operation off Corsica
    Corsica
    Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

    , France
  • Operation Odysseus 1944 - German naval deployment in the Adriatic Sea and Aegean Sea
  • Operation Panzerfaust
    Operation Panzerfaust
    Operation Panzerfaust, known as Unternehmen Eisenfaust in Germany, was a military operation to keep the Kingdom of Hungary at Germany's side in the war, conducted in October 1944 by the German military...

     1944 - German occupation of Hungary
  • Operation Pfingstausflug 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Polotsk and Lepel, Belorussia
  • Operation Prüfstand XII 1944 - German program to develop submarine launched V-2 rockets
  • Operation Regenschauer 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Lepel and Polotsk in Belorussia
  • Operation Rentier 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Greece
  • Operation Richard 1944 - German defence plan in case of an Allied invasion of Italy; activated after Allies launched Operation Shingle
  • Operation Rumpelkammer 1944 - German start of the V-1 rocket attacks against London
  • Operation Rübezahl 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Montenegro, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Röslein 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Macedonia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Rösselsprung
    Operation Rösselsprung
    The Raid on Drvar , codenamed Operation Rösselsprung , was an attack by the Waffen-SS and the Luftwaffe that aimed to disrupt the command structure of the Yugoslav Partisans by eliminating their Supreme Headquarters, and capturing their commander, Marshal Josip Broz Tito...

     1944 - German attempt to capture Josip Broz Tito
  • Operation Schneegestöber 1944 - German operation to find and capture Josip Broz Tito's headquarters in Yugoslavia
  • Operation Sonnenaufgang 1944 - German attack on Allied units at Anzio, Italy
  • Operation Steinadler 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Eastern Greece
  • Operation Steinbock
    Operation Steinbock
    Operation Steinbock was the nocturnal Second World War Luftwaffe offensive operation to destroy British military and civilian targets in southern England, between January and May 1944. The attacks were mainly in and around the Greater London area...

     1944 - German bombing of London and Southern England, Britain
  • Operation Storch 1944 - German flooding of parts of the Netherlands to hinder Allied advance; previously named Operation Heide
  • Operation Student 1944 - German plan to restore Benito Mussolini's power
    Political power
    Political power is a type of power held by a group in a society which allows administration of some or all of public resources, including labour, and wealth. There are many ways to obtain possession of such power. At the nation-state level political legitimacy for political power is held by the...

     in Italy
  • Operation Stösser
    Operation Stösser
    Operation Stösser was a paratroop drop into the American rear in the Hohes Veen area during the Battle of the Bulge. Their objective was to take and hold the "Baraque Michel" crossroads until the arrival of the 12th SS Panzer Division. The operation was led by Oberst Friedrich August Freiherr von...

     1944 - German airborne drop behind Allied lines; part of Wacht am Rhein
  • Operation Süd 1944 - German deceptive operation at Nettuno, Italy
  • Operation Tanne West 1944 - German planned invasion of the Åland Islands
    Åland Islands
    The Åland Islands form an archipelago in the Baltic Sea. They are situated at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia and form an autonomous, demilitarised, monolingually Swedish-speaking region of Finland...

     in the Baltic Sea from Finland
  • Operation Treibjagd 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Yugoslavia
  • Operation Treuebruch 1944 - German occupation of the Bulgarian-held Skopje region of Macedonia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Trojanisches Pferd 1944 - German occupation of Budapest, Hungary; part of Operation Margarethe I
  • Operation Uljan 1944 - German anti-partisan operation on the island of Ugljan
    Ugljan
    Ugljan is a Croatian island and the first in the Zadar Archipelago. It is located northwest of the island of Pašman and southeast of the islands of Rivanj and Sestrunj. Separated from the mainland by the Zadar Channel, it is connected with the island of Pašman by a bridge spanning over the Ždrelac...

     off the coast of the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Verrat 1944 - German attack on forces of Dragoljub Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
  • Operation Verrat 1944 - German attack on forces of Napoleon Zervas
    Napoleon Zervas
    Napoleon Zervas was a Greek general and resistance leader during World War II. He organized and led the National Republican Greek League , the second most significant , in terms of size and activity, resistance organization against the Axis Occupation of Greece.-Early life and army career:Zervas...

     in Greece
  • Wacht am Rhein
    Battle of the Bulge
    The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive , launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name , and France and...

     1944 - German offensive in the Ardennes
    Ardennes
    The Ardennes is a region of extensive forests, rolling hills and ridges formed within the Givetian Ardennes mountain range, primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France , and geologically into the Eifel...

    ; Anglicized as 'Watch on the Rhine'
  • Operation Waldrausch 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in the Balkans
  • Operation Walküre 1944 - German attempt to overthrow Adolf Hitler, written under the cover of a plan to foil potential worker rebellions; Anglicized as 'Valkyre'
  • Operation Walzertraum 1944 - German landing on the island of Hvar
    Hvar
    - Climate :The climate of Hvar is characterized by mild winters and warm summers. The yearly average air temperature is , 686 mm of precipitation fall on the town of Hvar on average every year and the town has a total of 2800 sunshine hours per year. For comparison Hvar has an average of 7.7...

     off the coast of Croatia, Yugoslavia; part of Operation Herbstgewitter III and Operation Herbstgewitter IV
  • Operation Weststurm 1944 - German naval bombardment
    Naval gunfire support
    Naval gunfire support is the use of naval artillery to provide fire support for amphibious assault and other troops operating within their range. NGFS is one of a number of disciplines encompassed by the term Naval Fires...

     of Sworbe, Estonia
  • Operation Wikinger
    Operation Wikinger
    Operation Wikinger was a sortie into the North Sea by the 1st Destroyer Flotilla of the Kriegsmarine, in February 1940. During this operation, poor inter-service communication and cooperation between the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe and inexperience resulted in the loss of two German ships...

     1944 - German offensive on the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia
  • Operation Winterende 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Slovenia
    Slovenia
    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

    , Yugoslavia; part of Operation Frühlingsanfang
  • Operation Wintermärchen 1944 - German offensive on American troops in Italy
  • Operation Wulf 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Operation Zeppelin
    Operation Zeppelin
    Operation Zeppelin may refer to:* Operation Zeppelin , part of Operation Bodyguard, a deception plan with the object to keep the Germans occupied in the Balkans due to perceived Allied offensive, thereby reducing the number of German troops which would be otherwise engaged by the Allies in France...

     1944 - German failed operation to destroy power plants in Moscow, USSR

1945

  • Operation Bergwind 1945 - Axis anti-partisan operation at the Moslavacka Mountains southeast of Zagreb in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Frühlingssturm 1945 - Axis anti-partisan operation along the Danube River in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Konrad
    Operation Konrad
    Operation Konrad was the German-Hungarian effort to relieve the encircled garrison of Budapest during the Battle of Budapest in January 1945. The operation was divided into three parts:...

     1945 - Axis attack near Budapest, Hungary to relieve the surrounded city
  • Operation Lawine 1945 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Lašva Valley
    Lašva Valley
    A region used to characterize some parts of Central Bosnia, the Lašva Valley is understood to be defined geographical by the Lašva River's route. It is a tributary of the Bosna River which travels from Travnik through Vitez but also touches Busovača, Kiseljak, Novi Travnik and Travnik.-Ancient...

     and Travnik
    Travnik
    Travnik is a city and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, 90 km west of Sarajevo. It is the capital of the Central Bosnia Canton, and is located in the Travnik Municipality. Travnik today has some 27,000 residents, with a metro population that is probably close to 70,000 people...

     the Independent State of Croatia
  • Operation Caesar
    Operation Caesar
    Operation Caesar was a secret mission carried out by Germany in World War II to supply Germany's faltering ally, Japan, with advanced technology to fuel their war machine...

     1945 - Failed transfer of technical design plans and strategic materials from Germany to Japan, using submarine U-864
  • Operation Aktion 24 1945 - German aborted planned suicide aerial attack on bridges over river Weichsel in attempt to disrupt Soviet supply lines
  • Operation Alpenfestung 1945 - German plan for a redoubt
    Redoubt
    A redoubt is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks, though others are constructed of stone or brick. It is meant to protect soldiers outside the main defensive line and can be a permanent structure or a...

     in the German Alps
  • Operation Birkhahn 1945 - German evacuation of Norway
  • Operation Bodenplatte
    Operation Bodenplatte
    Operation Bodenplatte launched on 1 January 1945, was an attempt by the Luftwaffe to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries during the Second World War. The goal of Bodenplatte was to gain air superiority during the stagnant stage of the Battle of the Bulge, to allow the German Army and...

     1945 - German air raid against Allied airbases in the Netherlands and Belgium in support of Wacht am Rhein
  • Operation Clausewitz
    Operation Clausewitz
    Operation Clausewitz was part of the defence of Berlin by Nazi Germany during the final stage of the European conflict of World War II. It started on 20 April 1945 and called for a number of thus far unknown actions but which included the evacuation of all Wehrmacht and SS offices in Berlin and...

     1945 - German defense plan for the city of Berlin.
  • Operation Freiheit 1945 - German destruction of a bridge on the Oder River
  • Operation Frühlingserwachen
    Operation Frühlingserwachen
    Operation Frühlingserwachen was the last major German offensive launched during World War II. The offensive was launched in Hungary on the Eastern Front...

     1945 - German counter-offensive against Soviet troops near Budapest, Hungary
  • Operation Gertraud 1945 - German planned aerial bombing of hydropower plants east of Moscow, USSR
  • Operation Hannibal
    Operation Hannibal
    Operation Hannibal was a German military operation involving the evacuation by sea of German troops and civilians from Courland, East Prussia, and the Polish Corridor from mid-January to May, 1945 as the Red Army advanced during the East Prussian and East Pomeranian Offensives and subsidiary...

     1945 - German evacuation of East Prussia
    East Prussia
    East Prussia is the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast from the 13th century to the end of World War II in May 1945. From 1772–1829 and 1878–1945, the Province of East Prussia was part of the German state of Prussia. The capital city was Königsberg.East Prussia...

    , Germany
  • Operation Hermann 1945 - German attack on British air units in Belgium and the Netherlands
  • Operation Maigewitter 1945 - German anti-partisan operation in Tuzla in Bosnia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Nordwind
    Operation Nordwind
    Operation North Wind was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front. It began on 1 January 1945 in Alsace and Lorraine in northeastern France, and it ended on 25 January.-Objectives:...

     1945 - German offensive in Alsace and Lorraine in north-eastern France in conjunction with Wacht am Rhein
  • Operation Regenbogen
    Operation Regenbogen (U-boat)
    Regenbogen was the code name for the planned mass scuttling of the German U-boat fleet, to avoid surrender, at the end of World War II.-Background:At the beginning of May 1945 Nazi Germany was collapsing under the Allied onslaught....

     1945 - German rescinded planned order to scuttle
    Scuttling
    Scuttling is the act of deliberately sinking a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull.This can be achieved in several ways—valves or hatches can be opened to the sea, or holes may be ripped into the hull with brute force or with explosives...

     German ships at the end of the war
  • Operation Regenwurm 1945 - German plan to move V-2 rockets to avoid Allied air strikes
  • Operation Schneeman 1945 - German offensive in the Netherlands in conjunction with Wacht am Rhein
  • Operation Sonnenwende 1945 - German attack of Soviet troops in Choszczno
    Choszczno
    Choszczno is a town in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The town is located in a marshy district between the river Stobnica and Klukom lake , southwest of Stargard Szczeciński and on the main railway line between Szczecin and Poznań...

    , Pomerania
    Pomerania
    Pomerania is a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea. Divided between Germany and Poland, it stretches roughly from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the West, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdańsk in the East...

    , Germany
  • Operation Südwind 1945 - German counter-offensive from Esztergom
    Esztergom
    Esztergom , is a city in northern Hungary, 46 km north-west of the capital Budapest. It lies in Komárom-Esztergom county, on the right bank of the river Danube, which forms the border with Slovakia there....

    , Hungary
  • Operation Waldteufel 1945 - German anti-partisan operation in Budapest, Hungary
  • Operation Werewolf 1945 - German anti-partisan operation in Croatia, Yugoslavia
  • Operation Werewolf 1945 - German fighter deployment against Allied bombing
  • Operation Zahnarzt
    Operation Zahnarzt
    Operation Zahnarzt was a plan by the Germans to eliminate the Third Army. The plan of Operation Zahnarzt was to immediately come after Operation Nordwind...

     1945 - German operation in the area of Molsheim
    Molsheim
    Molsheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. The total population in 2006 was 9,382. Molsheim had been a very fast growing city between the French censuses of 1968 and 1999, passing from 5,739 to 9,331 inhabitants, but this increase came to a noticeable halt...

    , France and Zabern, Germany
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