Despite the lack of formal secondary and tertiary level education, Nobel gained proficiency in six languages: Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian.

Despite popular opinion the substitution did not change the game as Franz Beckenbauer had scored before Charlton left the field, hence Charlton had failed to cancel out the German.

Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.

The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.

Despite the foundation of the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film ( Young German Film Committee ) in 1965, set up under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to support new German films financially, the directors of this New German Cinema, who rejected co-operation with the existing film industry, were consequently often dependent on money from television.

Despite the successes enjoyed by his troops, Germanicus ' German campaign was in reaction to the mutinous intentions of his troops, and lacked real strategic value.

Despite initial successes, the German army was stopped close to Moscow in December 1941.

Despite the abolition of the German monarchy in 1918, the House of Hohenzollern never relinquished their claims to the thrones of Prussia and the German Empire.

Despite the enormous power of the Propaganda Ministry over German cultural life, Goebbels ’ status began to decline once the Nazi regime was firmly established in power.

Despite their ultimate importance, the German navy declined to take up the cause of another experiment, the submarine, until 1904.

Despite vowing not to make any more films about the Nazi Party, in 1935, Riefenstahl made the 18-minute Day of Freedom: Armed Forces about the German army.

Despite a warming by the Comintern, German tensions were raised when the Soviets stated in September that they must enter Poland to " protect " their ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian brethren therein from Germany, though Molotov later admitted to German officials that this excuse was necessary because the Soviets could find no other pretext for the Soviet invasion.

Despite his lengthy stay abroad, Bismarck was not entirely detached from German domestic affairs.

Despite these successes, the Germans were pushed back from Moscow and could never again mount a simultaneous offensive along the entire strategic Soviet – German front.

Despite the estimations held by Hitler and others in the German high command, the Soviet Union was by no means weak.

Despite public displays of goodwill towards the populace, privately Heydrich left no illusions as to his eventual goal: " This entire area will one day be definitely German, and the Czechs have nothing to expect here ".

Despite killing 34 people, Baader-Meinhof garnered a degree of support from the West German population.

Despite proclamations of German hegemony, the pope was the most powerful force in Italy.

Despite German pressure, Bulgaria did not take part in the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union and actually never declared war on the Soviet Union.

Despite Woodruff's continuing refusal to debate with Pike through the columns of his newspaper, Pike did not let up his attack for a moment.

Despite the drawbacks, sustained artillery fire proved deadly during the engagement, especially during the French cavalry attack.

Despite its many ( serious ) limitations, including extremely low volume, it has considerable expressive power, the player being able to control attack, duration, volume, and even provide certain subtle effects of swelling of tone and a type of vibrato unique to the clavichord.

Despite his plane being on fire, Bush completed his attack and released bombs over his target, scoring several damaging hits.

Despite mutual admiration, negotiations foundered due to Roman allegations of " Punic Faith ," referring to the breach of protocols that ended the First Punic War by the Carthaginian attack on Saguntum, and a Carthaginan attack on a stranded Roman fleet.

Despite Ciano's efforts to persuade Ribbentrop to put off the attack on Poland until 1942, so as to allow the Italians time to get ready for war, Ribbentrop was adamant that Germany had no interest in a diplomatic solution of the Danzig question and only wanted a war to wipe Poland off the map.

Despite his opposition to Operation Barbarossa and a preference for focusing the war effort against Britain, on 28 June 1941, Ribbentrop began a sustained effort to have Japan attack the Soviet Union without bothering to inform Hitler first.

Despite his support for SBS, the Fraser government imposed stringent budget cuts on the national broadcaster, the ABC, which came under repeated attack from the Coalition for its supposed left-wing bias and for allegedly " unfair " or critical coverage on TV programs including This Day Tonight and Four Corners, and on the ABC's new youth-oriented radio station Double Jay ( 2JJ ).

Despite his reputation as a democrat, Chaves imposed a state of siege three weeks after he took office, using his emergency powers to attack the supporters of González and ex-President Felipe Molas López.

Despite this, NATO approved a campaign against Afghanistan as self-defense against armed attack.

Despite a never-ending attack of Prussian infantry, the soldiers of the 2nd Division kept to their positions. The people of the town of Wissembourg finally surrendered to the Germans.

Despite odds of four to one, the III Corps launched a risky attack.

Despite the moderate tone of Peng's letter, Mao took it as a personal attack against his leadership.

Despite being caught unprepared by the attack, Sherman rallied his division and conducted an orderly, fighting retreat that helped avert a disastrous Union rout.

Despite the smashing victory that followed, Longstreet's performance at the battle was criticized by postbellum advocates of the Lost Cause, claiming that his slowness, reluctance to attack, and disobedience to Gen. Lee were a harbinger of his controversial performance to come on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Despite his belief that the attack on Poland would cause only a local war, on 15 August 1939 Raeder took the precaution of ordering two Panzerschife the Admiral Graf von Spee and the Deutschland, a number of U-boats and the Dithmarschen ships Altmark and Westerwald to the Atlantic in case Britain should go to war.

Despite Rheinübung and the damaging attack on the Lützow, in July 1941 Raeder began planning for what he called " the battle of the Atlantic ", a plan to send every single warship in the Kriegsmarine into the Atlantic to take on the Royal Navy in one colossal battle that almost certainly result in the destruction of the German force, but would hopefully make the British victory a Pyrrhic one.

Despite this careful planning and intensive training ( by Civil War standards ), the day before the attack, Meade, who lacked confidence in the operation, ordered Burnside not to use the black troops in the lead assault, claiming that if the attack failed black soldiers would be killed needlessly, creating political repercussions in the North.

Despite the appearance of another French squadron, the arrival of large-scale British reinforcements under Edward Boscawen ( who considered but did not make an attack on Île de France on the way ) gave the British overwhelming dominance on land and sea, but the ensuing siege of Pondicherry organised by Boscawen was unsuccessful.

Despite the increased fear of a dirty bombing attack, it is hard to assess whether the actual risk of such an event has increased significantly.

Despite having reverted his website to its initially created purpose of hosting video game trivia, Harris continued to dedicate a section of his website to posting information regarding his and Klebold's progress regarding their collection of guns and building of the bombs they subsequently used in the attack upon their school.

Despite this, he was possibly the greatest leader in the attack.

Despite private misgivings about the Bay of Pigs invasion, he remained noncommittal during the Executive Council meetings leading up to the attack and never opposed it outright.