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    Manstein Plan (redirect from Fall Gelb)
    The Manstein Plan or Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb; also known after the war as Unternehmen Sichelschnitt a transliteration of the English Operation...
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    invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France on 10 May 1940. In Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow"), German armoured units made a surprise push through the...
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    Fall Rot (Case Red) was the plan for a German military operation after the success of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the Battle of France, an invasion of the...
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    Slag om Nederland), was a military campaign part of Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb), the Nazi German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg,...
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    suffering heavy losses during the failed Battle for The Hague (operation “Fall Festung”), and afterward advanced into France operating as ordinary ground...
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    invaded Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Belgium under the operational plan Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). Allied armies responded with the Dyle Plan (Breda variant)...
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    invasion of Czechoslovakia. Fall Grün (Czechoslovakia) ("Case Green") (1938) – planned invasion of Czechoslovakia. Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow") (1940) – also...
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  • Fall Gelb: The Fall of France is a 1983 video game published by Simulations Canada. Fall Gelb is a game in which Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium...
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    between 10 May and 11 May 1940, and was part of the Battle of Belgium and Fall Gelb, the German invasion of the Low Countries and France. An assault force...
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    Schuster Line were closed. The German invasion of Luxembourg, part of Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow"), began at 04:35 on the same day as the attacks on Belgium...
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    The corps took part in Fall Weiss, the 1939 invasion of Poland as a part of Army Group North. It then took part in Fall Gelb as a part of Army Group...
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    Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein's plan Sichelschnitt (under the German strategy Fall Gelb), effectively flanking the Allied forces. A series of Allied counter-attacks...
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    the French could arrive before the Germans. German dissatisfaction with Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the campaign plan against France, Belgium and the Netherlands...
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    II. A German aircraft with an officer on board carrying the plans for Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the German attack on the Low Countries, crash-landed in...
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    1940. It was part of the German Wehrmacht's operational plan codenamed Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) for an offensive through the hilly and forested Ardennes...
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    establishment. The regiment was shifted to the Dutch border for the launch of Fall Gelb. It was to form the vanguard of the ground advance into the Netherlands...
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    Abwehr for infiltration and long distance reconnaissance in Fall Weiss of 1939 and the Fall Gelb and Barbarossa campaigns of 1940 and 1941.[citation needed]...
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    the Battle squadrons were stood down for maintenance and to "settle in"; Fall Rot (the German offensive) began the next day. The German offensive over...
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    Franco-British Union to shore up support for Paul Reynaud's government following the fall of Paris split support. With many pro-Armistice ministers in the cabinet...
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    The German invasion of Luxembourg was part of Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb), the German invasion of the Low Countries—Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands—and...
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    1940) digging field defences on the border. When the Battle of France (Fall Gelb) began on 10 May 1940, the BEF constituted 10 per cent of the Allied forces...
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    over, with the last Polish military units surrendering on 6 October. Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow"), the initial plan for the invasion of France, was prepared...
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    the Netherlands, consisted of two phases, Operation Yellow (Fall Gelb) and Operation Red (Fall Rot). Yellow opened with a feint conducted against the Netherlands...
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    French and British forces advanced into Belgium. The German campaign plan Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) had evolved into a decoy operation in the Netherlands and...
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  • Phony War (Oct 1939-April 1940) Battle of France (with Benelux countries/Fall Gelb) (May–June 1940) Battle of Britain ( + Operation Sea Lion Unternehmen...
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    neutrality, Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940 as part of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). On 15 May 1940, one day after the bombing of Rotterdam...
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  • Armeekorps, they took part in the Polish campaign, Fall Weiss, and the campaign in the West 1940 (Fall Gelb and Fall Rot), and performed occupation duties in France...
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    Peter Gelb (born 1953) is an American arts administrator. Since August 2006, he has been General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. While...
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    communication system, which played a vital role in the success of 1940's Fall Gelb. In the spring of 1940 the Luftwaffe assisted the Kriegsmarine and Heer...
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    of France, "Case Yellow" (Fall Gelb). • Invasion of Luxembourg Germany defeats Luxembourg during the continuation of Fall Gelb. • German invasion of Belgium...
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