* German Maschinengewehr 34 or MG 34: air-cooled, belt-fed and had the ability to be mounted on a variety of fixtures and employed in several different roles.

Notably, the MG 34 remained the standard co-axial weapon for Nazi German vehicles through the Second World War.

* German MG3, a direct descendant of the MG 42, is still in service with the German Army and others.

Instead the 7. 62mm caliber MG74, a derivative of WW2-era German MG 42, is issued.

However German armored reconnaissance vehicles appeared from the forest road, probably part of Aufklärungs-Abteilung 20, and soon the Polish units came under heavy machine gun fire, probably from Leichter Panzerspähwagen equipped with MG 34, or Schwerer Panzerspähwagen equipped also with a 20 mm gun.

Moreover, almost every German squad was equipped with an MG 34 machine gun.

The first victory using a synchronized gun-equipped fighter, based on late 20th century research of surviving German and French early World War I aviation records, is strongly believed to have occurred on 1 July 1915 when Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of Feldflieger Abteilung 6b, flying the Fokker M. 5K / MG aircraft that bore IdFlieg's serial number ' E. 5 / 15 ', forced down a French Morane-Saulnier Type L east of Lunéville.

The Maschinengewehr 34, or MG 34, is a German recoil-operated air-cooled machine gun that was first produced and accepted into service in 1934, and first issued to units in 1935.

The versatile MG 34 was arguably the finest machine gun in the world at the time of its adoption and deployment with the German Army.

The MG 34 was the mainstay of German Army support weapons from the time of its first issue in 1935 until 1942, when it was supplanted by the next generation Maschinengewehr 42 or MG 42.

Germany | German soldiers with an MG 34 in France, 1944.

However, the MG 34 was also expensive, both in terms of construction and the raw materials needed ( of steel ), and its manufacture was too time-consuming to be built in the numbers required for the ever-expanding German armed forces.

Soldiers of the Germany | German Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland | Großdeutschland regiment man a heavy MG 34 on a stationary tripod mount.

Most German tanks used during World War II used the MG 34 Panzerlauf for secondary armament.

For this role, the breech was slightly modified to allow feeds from either side, and in one version, two guns were bolted together on a single trigger to form a weapon known as the MG 81Z ( for zwilling, German for " twin " as in twin-mounted ).

As the Luftwaffe lost the battle for air superiority and declined in priority in the German war effort, MG 15s and MG 81s, which were designed as flexibly mounted aircraft machine guns, were modified and adapted for ground use by infantry, with varying degrees of success.

The MG 42 ( shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 42, or " machine gun 42 ") is a 7. 9mm general purpose machine gun that was developed in Nazi Germany and entered service with the Wehrmacht in 1942.

It supplemented, and, in some instances, replaced the MG 34 general-purpose machine gun in all branches of the German Armed Forces, though both weapons were manufactured and used until the end of the war.

During the 1930s the German Army introduced the MG 34, considered to be the first modern general-purpose machine gun.

Notwithstanding the MG 42's high rate of fire, the Handbook of the German Army ( 1940 ) forbade the firing of more than 250 rounds in a single burst and indicated a sustained rate of no more than 300 – 350 rounds per minute to minimize barrel wear and overheating.

American films took up around 30 percent of the market despite having around twice as many films in distribution as the German industry in the same time frame ( Schneider 1990: 35, 42 & 44 ).

The new standard edition of Fichte's works in German, which supersedes all previous editions, is the Gesamtausgabe ( Collected Works or Complete Edition, commonly abbreviated as ' GA '), prepared by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Gesamtausgabe der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 42 volumes.

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42, 000 German civilians.

The German StuH 42 and the Soviet ISU-152 are good examples of this type of self-propelled artillery.

However, Ultra also encompassed decrypts of the German Lorenz SZ 40 / 42 machines that were used by the German High Command, and the Hagelin machine and other Italian and Japanese ciphers and codes such as PURPLE and JN-25.

* July 28 – WWII: Operation Gomorrha – The British bomb Hamburg, causing a firestorm that kills 42, 000 German civilians.

* December 15 – December 22 – The Brussels Conference establishes a timetable for German war reparations intended to extend for over 42 years.

In 1930, about 42, 000 inhabitants of Prague spoke German as their native language, while millions lived in northern Bohemia near the border to Germany.

The German firm Krupp had a pavilion of artillery, which apparently had cost one million dollars to stage, including a coastal gun of 42 cm in bore ( 16. 54 inches ) and a length of 33 calibres ( 45. 93 feet, 14 meters ).

By 1867 Riga's population was 42. 9 % German.

42. 8 % were of German, 17. 4 % American, 8. 1 % English and 8. 1 % Irish ancestry according to Census 2000.

The following discussion has been reported in the German media: 42 spectators left the audience without a word and later distributed leaflets to the audience.

42. 9 % were of American, 11. 6 % German, 11. 0 % English and 9. 8 % Irish ancestry according to Census 2000.

42. 0 % were of German, 12. 6 % American, 7. 7 % Irish, 6. 4 % English and 5. 1 % Italian ancestry according to Census 2000.

42. 8 % were of German, 17. 8 % Italian, 7. 4 % Irish and 5. 1 % Swedish ancestry according to Census 2000.

The population distribution by township is as follows according to the 2000 census: Banner 54 ; Beaver 60 ; Blaine 60 ; Cedar 619 ; Center 2, 094 ; Cora 38 ; Crystal Plains 40 ; Dor 46 ; Garfield 33 ; German 34 ; Harlan 100 ; Harvey 130 ; Houston 206 ; Lane 134 ; Lincoln 73 ; Logan 47 ; Martin 24 ; Oak 399 ; Pawnee 35 ; Pleasant 34 ; Swan 42 ; Valley 75 ; Washington 63 ; Webster 47 ; White Rock 49.

Terra Mar, now part of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, accounted for speakers of English as a first language at 80. 88 %, while both French and Spanish were tied at 5. 83 %, Italian consisted of 3. 42 %, German made up 3. 21 %, and Arabic comprised 0. 80 % of residents.

As of 2000, English as a first language accounted for 80. 88 % of all residents, while both French and Spanish made up 5. 83 %, Italian 3. 42 %, German was at 3. 21 %, and Arabic was the mother tongue of 0. 80 % of the population.

Other languages included French ( 4. 08 %), Yiddish ( 2. 62 %), Hebrew ( 2. 42 %), Portuguese ( 2. 00 %), Polish ( 1. 37 %), Hungarian ( 0. 93 %), Italian ( 0. 69 %), Arabic ( 0. 65 %), German ( 0. 55 %), and French Creole ( 0. 34 %).

As of 2000, English was the first language for 84. 48 % of all residents, while Yiddish comprised 6. 04 %, Spanish made up 5. 25 %, Polish accounted for 1. 31 %, German was totaled at 0. 98 %, French totaled 0. 65 %, Hebrew was at 0. 51 %, Arabic at 0. 42 %, and Portuguese was the mother tongue for 0. 32 % of the population.

He ordered immediate reinforcement of the vital heights of Alam Halfa, just behind his own lines, expecting the German commander, Erwin Rommel, to attack with the heights as his objective, something that Rommel soon did.

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 immediate roots are in the Middle English words ferten, feortan or farten, kin of the Old High German word ferzan.

Rommel launched an immediate counterattack and the German armoured battlegroups overran the two forward battalions of 69th Brigade.

This selection of the King of Spain turned out to play an important role in European and world history, since France opposed a German prince's candidacy to the Spanish throne, and this served as the immediate motive for the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ).

While the immediate response from the West German population was positive, the Soviet authorities were less pleased with the combative Lass sie nach Berlin kommen.

In the immediate post-war era, the US and USSR both started rocket research programs based on the German wartime designs, especially the V-2.

In 1942, Hitler shifted his primary goal from an immediate victory in the East, to the more long-term goal of securing the southern Soviet Union to conquer oil fields vital to a long-term German war effort.

That same day, on 21 March 1939, Ribbentrop presented a set of demands to the Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski about Poland allowing the Free City of Danzig to return to Germany in such violent and extreme language that it led to the Poles to fear their country was on the verge of an immediate German attack.

Shortly afterwards, false reports spread in mid-March 1939 by the Romanian minister in London, Virgil Tilea, that his country was on the verge of an immediate German attack, led to a dramatic U-turn in British policy of resisting commitments in Eastern Europe.

It is unclear how much armament was actually produced there ; Schindler and some of the workers claimed in the immediate post-war years that there had been no production that would have been useful to the German war effort, and even that some or all of the output had been deliberately faulty product.

Furious, he refused to surrender and launched an immediate attack on German forces at Orleans which, predictably, failed.

The Phädon was an immediate success, and besides being often reprinted in German was speedily translated into nearly all the European languages, including English.

As such, the SD came into immediate, fierce competition with German military intelligence arm, the Abwehr, headed by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris.

In the German lands, a Margrave was a ruler of an immediate Imperial territory ( examples include the Margrave of Brandenburg, the Margrave of Baden and the Margrave of Bayreuth ) and never a mere noble like Marquesses / Marquises in Western and Southern Europe.

The main threat was perceived by the Germans to be the British beachheads to the east of Omaha, and these received the most attention from the German mobile reserves in the immediate area of Normandy.

With the advent of the First World War, Emmeline and Christabel called an immediate halt to militant suffrage activism in support of the British government's stand against the " German Peril.

As an immediate consequence of the London conference 1948 the representatives of the three western occupations powers on the 1st of July convoked the Ministerpräsidenten ( prime ministers ) of the West German Länder in Frankfurt / Main and committed to them the socalled Frankfurt Documents ( Frankfurter Dokumente ).

These included General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, the German military commander in France, who would take control in Paris when Hitler was killed and, it was hoped, negotiate an immediate armistice with the invading Allied armies.

By night time, the German forces holding the top of the ridge believed they had overcome the immediate crisis for the mean time.

Teuffel was to go on with other editions of his history, but meanwhile it had come out in English almost as soon as it did in German and found immediate favorable reception.

On 5 October, Prinz Max von Baden, on behalf of the German Government, asked for an immediate armistice on land, water and in the air.

He believed that the regular army must not be wasted in immediate battle, but instead used to help train a new army with 70 divisions — the size of the French and German armies — that he foresaw would be needed to fight a war lasting many years.

In the immediate postwar era new data from captured German records suggested that major savings in drag could be had through a variety of means such as swept wings, and Director of Scientific Research, Sir Ben Lockspeiser, decided to cancel the project in light of this new information.