He had been captured in the British zone of occupied Germany after the war but was allowed to go free.

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For example, upon learning that there was not a single complete edition of the Talmud in Germany, General Joseph McNarney, commander of the American zone of Occupied Germany, undertook an effort to print a Talmud for survivors.

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In response, in January 1923 French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr, Germany's industrial heartland.

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Nazi Germany, which occupied Greece from 1941-44, forced Athens to extend it loans and give up gold reserves.

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Japan, Germany and Austria found themselves occupied after declaring war on the United States.

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He also served at slave labour sites in Nazi-occupied France where prisoners built launching platforms for Germany's V-1 and V-2 rockets, the justice department said.

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Mr Kumf was found to have served as a guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany and Trawniki in Nazi-occupied Poland, where the mass shooting took place in 1943.

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Bulgaria was an ally of Nazi Germany during the war, when Jews were deported en masse from the Nazi-occupied Balkans to death camps such as Auschwitz.

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