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.

Since the magnitude of the plan made secrecy impossible, once the wheels had began to turn, persons controlling German industries, social institutions, and armed forces became, through their anti-Semitism or their tolerance of it, conscious accomplices of Hitler's crimes ; ;

For example, Baldrick is reduced to making coffee from mud and cooking rats, while General Melchett hatches a plan for the troops to walk very slowly toward the German lines, because " it'll be the last thing Fritz will expect.

German gains were ultimately limited by Hitler diverting forces from the attack on Stalingrad itself and seeking to pursue a drive to the Caucasus oilfields simultaneously as opposed to subsequently as the original plan had envisaged.

It was only after the hastily improvised plan for the invasion of Western Europe in 1940 and its successful conclusion, which led the German General Staff to believe that decisive battles were not obsolete.

Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler termed it " the final solution of the Jewish question " ().

Together, Plunkett and Casement presented a plan which involved a German expeditionary force landing on the west coast of Ireland, while a rising in Dublin diverted the British forces so that the Germans, with the help of local Volunteers, could secure the line of the River Shannon.

* 1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.

As the Axis forces dug in, Auchinleck — having drawn a number of German units to the coastal sector during the Tel el Eisa fighting — developed a plan — codenamed Operation Bacon — to attack the Italian Pavia and Brescia Divisions in the centre of the front at the Ruweisat ridge.

In 1525, the Heilbronn reform plan – the most advanced document of the German Peasants ' War ( Deutscher Bauernkrieg ) – referred to the Reich as von Teutscher Nation ( of German nation ).

In 1866, however, the last Elector of Hesse was dethroned under Otto von Bismarck's plan for German Unification.

However, US Fifth Army forces at Anzio, under Clark's orders, failed to follow their original break-out plan that would have trapped the German forces escaping northwards in the aftermath of the Battle of Monte Cassino, instead favouring an early and highly publicised entry into Rome two days before the Allied landings in Normandy.

On 31 August, Ribbentrop met with Attolico to tell him that Poland's " rejection " of the " generous " German 16-point peace plan meant that Germany had no interest in Mussolini's offer to call a conference about the status of Danzig.

After US occupation in 1945, Munich was completely rebuilt following a meticulous and – by comparison to other war-ravaged West German cities – rather conservative plan which preserved its pre-war street grid.

The first " level of industry " plan, signed by the Allies on March 29, 1946, had stated that German heavy industry was to be lowered to 50 % of its 1938 levels by the destruction of 1, 500 listed manufacturing plants.

The first " German level of industry " plan was subsequently followed by a number of new ones, the last signed in 1949.

The Intelligenzaktion, a plan to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia, Poland's ' leadership class ', took place soon after the German invasion of Poland, lasting from fall of 1939 till spring of 1940.

The OKH did not plan operations, following in German tradition.

The Potsdam Agreement was the Allied ( UK, US, USSR ) plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany — referring to the German Reich with its pre-war 1937 borders including the former eastern territories — and the entire European Theatre of War territory.

On 20 January 1942 Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which he presented to the heads of a number of German Government departments a plan for the deportation and transporting of 11 million Jewish people from every country in Europe, to be worked to death or killed outright in extermination camps.

It described amateur spies discovering a German plan to invade Britain, thus being an early example of the invasion literature sub-genre.

In 1928 Slovenian Herman Potočnik ( 1892 – 1929 ) published his sole book, The Problem of Space Travel — The Rocket Motor ( German: Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums — der Raketen-Motor ), a plan for a breakthrough into space and a permanent human presence there.

While the absence of a perpendicular city plan in medieval Stockholm seem do indicate a spontaneous growth, it is known German merchants invited by Birger jarl played an important role in the foundation of the city.

This plan was detailed by German Field Marshall Erich Ludendorff, who wrote, " German prestige demands that we should hold a strong protecting hand, not only over German citizens, but over all Germans.

To ensure execution of the treaty's terms, Allied troops would occupy the left ( German ) bank of the Rhine for a period of 5 – 15 years.

* 1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia ; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, in August 1914, New Zealand sent an expeditionary force to seize and occupy German Samoa.

* 1943 – World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.

* March 15 – German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia ; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.

* March 19 – WWII: German forces occupy Hungary in Operation Margarethe.

* October 26 – Spiegel scandal: German police occupy Der Spiegel offices in Hamburg.

The plan was to provoke a German reaction by laying mines in Norwegian waters, and once Germany showed signs of taking action UK troops would occupy Narvik, Trondheim and Bergen and launch a raid on Stavanger to destroy Sola airfield.

When Kaiser Wilhelm II received news of these murders, he dispatched the German East Asia Squadron to occupy Jiaozhou Bay on the southern coast of Shandong.

A young German Sommekämpfer in 1916On 24 February 1917, the German army made the strategic scorched earth withdrawal ( Operation Alberich ) from the Somme battlefield to the Siegfriedstellung ( Hindenburg Line ), thereby shortening the front line they had to occupy.

A detailed military plan was developed not only to occupy Berlin, but also to take the different headquarters of the German army and of Hitler in East Prussia by military force after the suicide assassination attempt by Axel von dem Bussche in late November 1943.

Most industrial complexes are scattered throughout the city, however, the ' Zachem ' chemical works deserves attention, covering tens of square kilometers in the south-east of the city, the remnants of the German explosives factory built in World War II occupy an area which has its own rail lines, internal communication, housing, and large forested area.

While still a young man it became his ambition to occupy a rabbinical position in a larger German town ; for he desired to show the older rabbis that secular and philosophical scholarship could well be harmonized with rabbinical erudition.

On 24 February 1917, the German army made a strategic scorched earth withdrawal from the Somme battlefield to the prepared fortifications of the Hindenburg Line, thereby shortening the front line they had to occupy.

His claim was enthusiastically supported by the German princes and people, and in spite of the negative attitude of Austria and Prussia the federal assembly at the initiative of Otto von Bismarck decided to occupy Holstein pending the settlement of the decree of succession.

In 1868 he accepted the chair of botany in the University of Würzburg, which he continued to occupy ( in spite of calls to all the important German universities ) until his death.

Earlier maps and plans indicated that the Soviets would occupy an area that included the Potsdam-approved final Soviet Zone along with all of the 1937 German territory east of the Oder-Neisse Line.

Due to the length of the front created by the German summer offensive, aimed at taking the Caucasus oil fields and the city of Stalingrad, German and other Axis forces were forced to guard sectors beyond the length they were meant to occupy.

As preparations for the offensive commenced, the attack's starting points were positioned on stretches of front to the rear of the German Sixth Army, largely preventing the Germans from reinforcing those sectors quickly where Axis units were too overstretched to occupy effectively.

In response, German and Italian troops were ferried in from Sicily to occupy Tunisia, one of the few easily defended areas of North Africa, and only one night ′ s sail from bases in Sicily.

In the meanwhile, to the east of Poland, the Soviet Union was preparing its own military advance to occupy the eastern part of Poland in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact concluded between the USSR and Germany in August 1939, just weeks before the German invasion.

The city was originally abandoned by the Romanian Army and taken by the German commander August von Mackensen as the front stabilized on the Olt River, before Mackensen was able to occupy Bucharest and the entire southern Romania.

The plan was to provoke a German reaction by laying mines in Norwegian waters, and once Germany showed signs of taking action UK troops would occupy Narvik, Trondheim and Bergen and launch a raid on Stavanger to destroy Sola airfield.