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Operation Green

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ7097092 ↗
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Operation Green (German: Unternehmen Grün) or Case Green (German: Fall Grün) was the name of three separate cancelled German military operations immediately before and during the Second World War.

Fall Grün (Czechoslovakia), the planned invasion of Czechoslovakia, to be carried out in September 1938

Operation Green (Ireland), the planned invasion of Ireland in support of the invasion of Britain

Operation Tannenbaum, the planned invasion of Switzerland, known earlier as Operation Green

Operation Green may also refer to:

Operation Green (police investigation), a 2000 murder inquiry in the United Kingdom

Operation Greens, an Indian Government scheme to stabilize the supply of Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) crops.

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This entry incorporates text from “Operation Green” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.