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1 Grossdeutschland and Kleindeutschland

Grossdeutschland was firstly a 19th century political idea postulating the (never realized) idea of a unified Germany, led by Habsburg Austria and with Vienna as its capital, as opposed to the Prussian-led alternative, known as Kleindeutschland (Small Germany).

Following that idea the Deutsches Reich ( German Empire) was informally named to Grossdeutsches Reich when Austria became part of the Third Reich after the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938.

2 Grossdeutschland, the Wehrmacht division

Grossdeutschland was also the name of German Wehrmacht's élite armored division during World War II.

While Grossdeutschland was an élite Army unit, it is often incorrectly perceived as being a part of the Waffen-SSThe Waffen-SS was the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel. Its roots lay with various German right-wing paramilitary organizations that formed the Freikorps and those of the Nazi party such as the SA and that were later absorbed into the SS-Verfugungstruppe a, and its involvement in war crimes against the population of occupied countries has never been proven.

The division became also known post-War through the book The Forgotten Soldier, by the AlsatianRegion Alsace ( In Detail) ( In Detail) Information Capital: Strasbourg Population Total Density 1,734,145 1999 209/km² Area8,280 km² Arrondissements13 Cantons75 Communes903 President of the regional council Adrien Zeller ( UMP) Departements Bas-Rhin (67) veteran Guy Sajer (a pseudonymA pseudonym or allonym is a name (sometimes legally adopted, sometimes purely fictitious) used by an individual as an alternative to their birth name. Pseudonyms in print When used by authors, a pseudonym is also called a pen name or (in French) nom de pl), who served as a volunteer (first published 1967Events January January 4 British motorboat racer Donald Campbell dies while attempting a water speed record in Coniston Lake. January 4 Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid. January 6 Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch " Operatio in FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. as Le Soldat Oublié).

While the historical accuracy of Sajer's autobiographicalFor the album by Ashlee Simpson, see Autobiography (album In a sense, autobiography is a form of biography, the writing of a life story. The difference, of course, is point of view: an autobiography is from the viewpoint of its subject. Biographers genera work has been questioned, it offers nevertheless a compelling and moving account of the horrors of war on the Eastern FrontThe Eastern Front was the theater of combat between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. It was somewhat separate from the other theatres of the war, not only geographically, but also for its scale and ferocity. In Russia, the war is ref.