But both were high-spirited and vivacious, both had tempers to control, both loved languages, especially English and German, both were good teachers and wrote for publication.

We lived for a while in a movie melodrama with a German cook and her son who turned out to be Nazis.

If the Communists are sincere in wanting a united, neutral and disarmed Germany, it might well be advantageous for the German people in this nuclear age.

They are leaving so fast that the president of the West German Employers' Federation issued an appeal this week to factory workers in the West to volunteer for six months' front-line work in factories in West Berlin.

Khrushchev, for all his bombastic prophecies about the inevitable decay of capitalism, is genuinely favorable to `` peaceful coexistence '' and would like, above all, the Berlin and German problems to be settled peacefully ; ;

The two older boys, Hans and Anders, his junior by a year, therefore went daily to the home of a warm and friendly wigmaker nearby for instruction in German ; ;

Other brothers later joined them for instruction with Oldenburg, the wigmaker, and also arithmetic was added to Bible reading, German, and Danish in the informal curriculum.

The moving of millions of the German master-race, from the very heart of Junkerdom, to make room for the Polish Slavs whom they had enslaved and openly planned to exterminate was a drastic operation, but there was little doubt that it was historically justified.

Heydrich, in opening the Conference, followed the reasoning and even the phraseology of the order issued earlier by Goering which authorized the Final Solution as `` a complement to '' previous `` solutions '' for eliminating the Jews from German living space through violence, economic strangulation, forced emigration, and evacuation.

In other words, the promulgators of the murder plan made clear that physically exterminating the Jews was but an extension of the anti-Semitic measures already operating in every phase of German life, and that the new conspiracy counted on the general anti-Semitism that had made those measures effective, as a readiness for murder.

German uses the tesseragraphs ( four letters ) " tsch " for the phoneme and " dsch " for, although the latter is rare.

There are talks with the German government to deliver some 12 navy fast speed vessels for sea border protection.

The standardized form of Austrian German for official texts and schools is defined by the Austrian Dictionary (), published under the authority of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

Distinctions in vocabulary persist, for example, in culinary terms, where communication with Germans is frequently difficult, and administrative and legal language, which is due to Austria's exclusion from the development of a German nation-state in the late 19th century and its manifold particular traditions.

Altenberg ( German for " old mountain ") may refer to:

* Altenberg, the German name for Moresnet and Neutral Moresnet

** Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (" old mountain " in French ), the former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

* Obituary for Alan Alexander Milne ( German )

The term for the mountain peaks varies by nation and language: words such as horn, kogel, gipfel, and berg are used in German speaking regions: mont and aguille in French speaking regions ; and monte or cima in Italian speaking regions.

* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

There was great demand for a German edition, but, instead of translating it, he decided to rewrite it.

Some of the ideas of the Italian Renaissance did spread to other parts of Europe, for example to the German artist Albrecht Dürer of the ' Northern Renaissance '.

They had been extinct in Britain for a long time because of land reclamation of their habitat and persecution by skin and egg collectors, but during or soon after World War II started breeding on reclaimed land near the Wash which was returned to salt marsh to make difficulties for any landing German invaders.

The scientific name, Colaptes auratus cafer, is the result of an error made in 1788 by the German systematist, Johann Gmelin, who believed that its original habitat was in South Africa among the Xhosa people, then known as the " Kaffir " people.

In its habitat region, the species is known as bouquetin ( French ), Steinbock ( German ), stambecco ( Italian ) and kozorog ( Slovenian ).

An 1804 map of German origin showed the southern coast of Iran as the habitat of the " Bani Hule " tribe and the islands, colored in the same orange, were designated as " Thunb unbenohul ".

Gel products such as Advion and max force are very effective against cockroaches The German cockroach, discounting the presence of pets, has few natural predators inside a human habitat.

The name translates literally from the German as " Alder King " rather than its common English translation, " Elf King " ( which would be rendered as Elfenkönig in German ).

The traditional usage is Tiu ĉi plaĉas al mi ( literally, " this one is pleasing to me "), which reflects the phrasing of most European languages ( French celui-ci me plaît, Spanish éste me gusta, Russian это мне нравится mnye nravitsya, German Das gefällt mir, Italian mi piace ).

Many of the German films of the immediate post-war period can be characterised as belonging to the genre of the Trümmerfilm ( literally " rubble film ").

The importance of bread in German cuisine is also illustrated by words such as Abendbrot ( meaning supper, literally evening bread ) and Brotzeit ( snack, literally bread time ).

The German Empire () is the common name given to the state officially named the ( literally: " German Realm "), designating Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.

On August 10, 1410, civil unrest forced a compromise ( German: Rezeß, literally meaning: withdrawal ).

Stirner's main work is The Ego and Its Own, also known as The Ego and His Own ( Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in German, which translates literally as The Only One and his Property ).

* Jew, derived from Hebrew " Yehudi " יהודי ( literally, " Judean "); the derivation is more clear in German " Jude " and in Slavic " Zhid "

Katzenjammer translates literally as the wailing of cats but is used to mean contrition after a failed endeavor or hangover in German ( and, in the latter sense, in English too ).

Midgard ( an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English, Old High German, Gothic Midjun-gards ; literally " middle enclosure ") is the name for the world ( in the sense of oikoumene ) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology, and specifically one of the Nine Worlds and in Norse mythology.

In early Germanic cosmology, the term stands alongside world ( Old English weorold, Old Saxon werold, Old High German weralt, Old Frisian warld and Old Norse verǫld ), from a Common Germanic compound * wira-alđiz literally the " age of men ".

In German folklore and old fairy tales, toads are often depicted sitting on toadstool mushrooms and catching, with their tongues, the flies that are said to be drawn to the Fliegenpilz, a German name for the toadstool, meaning " flies ' mushroom ") This is how the mushroom got another of its names, Krötenstuhl ( a less-used German name for the mushroom ), literally translating to " toad-stool ".

The concept of a " picture element " dates to the earliest days of television, for example as " Bildpunkt " ( the German word for pixel, literally ' picture point ') in the 1888 German patent of Paul Nipkow.

The word poltergeist comes from the German words poltern (" to make noise ") and Geist (" ghost "), and the term itself literally means " noisy ghost ".

The words for pencil in German ( Bleistift ), Irish ( Peann Luaidhe ), Arabic ( قلم رصاص qalam ruṣāṣ ), and other languages literally mean lead pen.

Potsdamer Platz (, literally Potsdam Square ) is an important public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about one kilometre south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag ( German Parliament Building ), and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park.

Other ideas are behind the German expressions formelles Recht ( or Prozeßrecht ) and materielles Recht as well as the French droit formel / droit matériel, the Italian diritto formale / diritto material and the Swedish formell rätt / materiell rätt ; all of which, taken literally, means " formal " and " material " law.

In the case of the German Empire ( 1871-1918 ), the official name was Deutsches Reich, is literally translated as " German Realm ", because formally the official position of its head of state, in the Constitution of the German Empire, was a " presidency " of a confederation of German states led by the King of Prussia.