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“ Germans threw themselves into their clubs, voluntary associations, and professional organizations out of frustration with the failures of the national government and political parties, thereby helping to undermine the Weimar Republic and facilitate Hitler ’ s rise to power .” In this article about the fall of the Weimar Republic, the author makes the claim that Hitler rose to power so quickly because he was able to mobilize the groups towards one common goal.
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While Western Pomerania was being the Germanized, the Germans ( both colonizers and Germanized descendants of Slavic Pomeranians ) started using the words “ Pomeranian ” ( German: Pommersch ; Polish: pomorski ) and “ Pomeranians ” ( German: Pommern ; Polish: Pomorzacy ) referring to their own population.
When the Germans asked him to declare himself in favour of their desire for national unity, he replied that he would not as this would weaken the Habsburg state: “ Truly, if it were not that Austria had long existed, it would be necessary, in the interest of Europe, in the interest of humanity itself, to create it .”
US President Harry S. Truman alluded to this problem: “ though all Germans might not be guilty for the war, it would be too difficult to try to single out for better treatment those who had nothing to do with the Nazi regime and its crimes .” Denazification was from then on supervised by special German ministers, like the Social Democrat Gottlob Kamm in Baden-Württemberg, with the support of the US occupation forces.
Actually, “ Jewish problem ” was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews ; “ drug-abuse problem ” is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs. Szasz cites Rep. James M. Hanley referring to drug users as " vermin ," using " the same metaphor for condemning persons who use or sell illegal drugs that the Nazis used to justify murdering Jews by poison gas -- namely, that the persecuted persons are not human beings, but ' vermin.
The Rhine frontier having been depleted of forces in order to defend Italy, leaving it defended by “ only the faith of the Germans and the ancient terror of the Roman name ,” as Gibbon put it, a massive number of Vandals, Alans, and Suevi from central Europe crossed the frozen-over and poorly-defended Rhine on 31 December 406.
* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.
* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.
: May 14 – 15, San Antonio-The Texas State Convention of Germans adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.
The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.
The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.
“ At the time, the undisputed bosses over life and death in Jedwabne were the Germans.
Gross asserted emphatically that Polish perpetrators were not coerced by the Germans: “ the ‘’ Einsatzgruppen ,’’ German police detachments and various functionaries who implemented the ‘ final solution ’ did not compel the local population to participate directly in the murder of Jews ... the so-called local population involved in killings of Jews did so of their own free will .” ( p. 133 )
“ The presence of German military policemen ..... and other uniformed Germans ..... was tantamount to consent to, and tolerance of the crime .”
The land was sold and Leonard Smith platted it in 1787 with the name of “ Berlin ,” as many Germans settled in the area.
Some have said the name was given because of the large number of “ Dutch ” or German people in the area, but there were more New Englanders and New Yorkers in the early settlements than there were Germans.
“ While he tried honestly to show himself as a friend of Poland, Warsaw forced his departure, after his neutrality in Silesian voting was questioned ” by Germans and Poles.
“ While he tried honestly to show himself as a friend of Poland, Warsaw forced his departure, after his neutrality in Silesian voting was questioned ” by Germans and Poles.
In May 1942, the Jewish Police began to carry out the task of “ human-hunting ” for the Germans, mistreating Jews almost as viciously as their German employers.
Though the brat in bratwurst described the way the sausages are made, nowadays Germans associate it with the German verb “ braten ”, which means to pan fry or roast.
An intelligence report on 21 April warned of collaboration between the Irish and the Germans, causing French to mutter “ I don ’ t believe a word of it ”.
Indeed, the Germans began to consider missions where their losses were less than ninety percent “ satisfactory .” According to German sources, the Soviets rendered approximately 39, 500 German agents useless by the end of the war.
Informants reported those sympathetic to the Germans, desertion, unpatriotic attitudes, and low morale and were authorized to take “ immediate corrective action ” if the need arose.
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The book observed that Turner “ discovered his father had sheltered a substantial amount of taxable income over the years by personally lending it back to the company ” and “ discovered that the billboard business could be a gold mine, a tax-depreciable revenue stream that threw off enormous amounts of cash with almost no capital investment .” In the late 1960s, Turner used the profits to buy Southern radio stations.
As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.
The two engaged in combat whereupon, Marcellus, “ by a thrust of his spear which pierced his adversary's breastplate, and by the impact of his horse in full career, threw him, still living, upon the ground, where, with a second and third blow, he promptly killed him .” Marcellus extracted the armor from his fallen foe, upon which he pronounced it as the spolia opima.
Eventually he had himself named the organization's “ Man of the Year ", and threw a festive awards luncheon in his own honor.
On the other hand, Anna ’ s mother, Irene Doukaina, according to Choniates “ threw her full influence on the side of ” and “ continually attempted ” to persuade the emperor to designate Nikephoros Bryennios, Anna ’ s husband, as emperor.
During a heated discussion about Florida Republican Representative Katherine Harris ' just-announced 2006 bid for U. S. Senate, Novak uttered an expletive after Carville remarked that Novak had “ to show these right-wingers that he ’ s got a backbone .” As anchor Ed Henry was asking Carville a question, Novak threw off his microphone and stormed off the set.
For ten years the couple lived the idle life of upper-class Italians, which Sage described in China Eggs as “ a stagnant swamp .” She looked back on that time as years that she simply “ threw away to the crows.
Chakram Skills: In the episode “ Eve ”, she was able to stop the Chakram when Xena threw it on her and cut it into two pieces.
Twenty-five years later, Righetti reminisced about the game: “ My biggest worry, because I had a tendency to fall toward third base, was him tapping a ball between me and Mattingly and me trying to get to first base ... I threw a lot of fastballs during the at bat, but the last slider I ended up throwing, he happened to miss it.
“ There was no evidence produced by the State to show or even indicate that I had any knowledge of the man who threw the bomb, or that I myself had anything to do with the throwing of the missile, unless, of course, you weight the testimony of the accomplices of the State ’ s Attorney and ( Inspector John ) Bonfield, the testimony of Thompson and Gilmer, by the price they were paid for it .”
Black, sticky tar was put onto alley walls which damaged Salvation Army uniforms as they marched past and threw eggs filled with blue paint at the “ Sally Army ”.
“ Brussels holding company Bois Sauvage threw 3. 6 million Fortis shares onto the market on October 3, 2008, just before the bank's second bail-out.
Rubinstein threw lavish dinner parties and became known for apocryphal quips, such as when an intoxicated French ambassador expressed vitriol toward Edith Sitwell and her brother Sacheverell: “ Vos ancêtres ont brûlé Jeanne d ’ Arc !” Rubinstein, who knew little French, asked a guest what the ambassador had said.
When confronted, Sloane confirms he has been sleeping with Kath, but claims she “ threw herself ” at him.
After a judge threw out an obscenity charge against The Window Dresser ( according to legend remarking “ I ’ ll buy a copy for my son, case dismissed ”), Marks continued to make more 8mm glamour films throughout the 1960s.
Coinciding with earthquakes, rainbows and lunar eclipses in the capital ; uprisings in the north ; and pirate disturbances in the west ; it threw the court and the capital into a panic, and climaxed, according to most versions of the story, with the protagonist ’ s claiming for himself the title, “ New Emperor .” Many historians have perceived the incident as an early harbinger of the late twelfth -, thirteenth-and fourteenth-century events that, step by step, ushered in the medieval era of warrior rule.
However, “ Buchanan's campaign threw out Cotterill and other racist volunteers after their presence was exposed by the Center for New Community and other groups .”
“ We kept putting them away, and they kept coming back ,” said Palmer, who threw a career-high four touchdown passes.
In 1837, Abraham Malpan took the image and threw it into a well saying, “ Why consult the dead on behalf of the living ?” ( Isaiah 8: 19 ).
“ I threw away my career ," said Carbo.
When Graciela was 14, she was attracted to her mother ’ s current boyfriend, who was a “ Moor .” They were caught having sex by Graciela ’ s mother, who threw an iron ashtray at Graciela ’ s head, injuring her.
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