He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.

It works with English, Russian, German, Hungarian or almost any other foreign tongue.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

* 1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister ( d. 1946 )

Following German reunification in 1990, the city regained its status as the capital of Germany, hosting 147 foreign embassies.

In the summer of 1900 the rebellion reached Peking, where the German legation was attacked and foreign nationals withdrew to the relative safety of the Legation Quarter.

" One of his great supporters in Berlin was Walther Rathenau, later the German foreign minister, who greatly contributed to his success.

Many of the coinages that have been considered ( often by Aavik himself ) as words concocted ex nihilo could well have been influenced by foreign lexical items, for example words from Russian, German, French, Finnish, English and Swedish.

In addition, the Occupation Statute of 1949, which granted partial independence to the newly created Federal Republic of Germany, specifically forbade the imposition of import quotas to protect German film production from foreign competition, the result of lobbying by the American industry as represented by the MPAA.

Under this relationship, Afghanistan received German foreign aid and technical assistance, and also developed closer ties with Germany's allies, Italy and Japan.

In foreign policy, the Vaasa Senate leaned on the German Empire for military and political aid, in order to defeat the Finnish Red Guards, end the influence of Bolshevist Russia in Finland, and expand Finnish territory to Russian Karelia.

More than 16 million people are of foreign / immigrant descent ( first and second generation, including mixed heritage and ethnic German repatriates and their descendants ).

About seven million of them are foreign residents, which is defined as those not having German citizenship.

Strong ties with the United States remain central to German foreign policy.

In particular during the Cold War-but continuous into the 21st century-( West -) German foreign policy pursues the country's integration into NATO and a strong co-operation and collective security with its Western partners.

The development policy of the Federal Republic of Germany is an independent area of German foreign policy.

Being the historic core of Europe and the " twin engine for European integration ", the cooperation with France is one of the most central elements of German foreign policy.

In 1999, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's government defined a new basis for German foreign policy by taking a full part in the decisions surrounding the NATO war against Yugoslavia and by sending German troops into combat for the first time since World War II.

The development policy of the Federal Republic of Germany is an independent area of German foreign policy.

The sweet German wines sold in English-speaking countries seem mostly to cater to the foreign market, as they are rare in Germany.

Himmler declared, " We have faith above all in this our own blood, which has flowed into a foreign nationality through the vicissitudes of German history.

He retained his posts as foreign minister and vice chancellor through German reunification and until 1992, when he stepped down for health reasons.

One of the potential complications were the claims to historical eastern Germany, since unless these were renounced, some foreign governments might not agree to German reunification.

In the United States, Italian is the fourth most taught foreign language after Spanish, French and German, in that order ( the fifth, considering also the American Sign Language ).

In German, words starting with sch-( constituting the German phoneme ) would be intercalated between words with initial sca-and sci-( all incidentally loanwords ) instead of this graphic cluster appearing after the letter s, as though it were a single letter — a lexicographical policy which would be de rigueur in a dictionary of Albanian, i. e. dh -, ë -, gj -, ll -, rr -, th -, xh-and zh-( all representing phonemes and considered separate single letters ) would follow the letters d, e, g, l, n, r, t, x and z respectively.

* 1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.

The German Empire, in turn, under the " Drang nach Osten " policy, aspired to turn the Ottoman Empire into its own de facto colony, and thus supported its integrity.

The Senatorial officers may have disapproved of Domitian's military strategies, such as his decision to fortify the German frontier rather than attack, as well as his recent retreat from Britain, and finally the disgraceful policy of appeasement towards Decebalus.

This policy was reinforced by bestowing the Cross of Honor of the German Mother on women bearing four or more babies.

The policy of German leaders had been to foment unrest or revolution in Russia in order to force the Russians to sue for peace.

The German policy was a success ; an armistice between Germany and the Bolsheviks came into force on 6 December and peace negotiations began on 22 December 1917 at Brest-Litovsk.

The German government sees development policy as a joint responsibility of the international community.

The German government sees development policy as a joint responsibility of the international community.

The unification of the two parties was symbolic of the new friendship of German socialists in defeating their common enemy, however, Communists who made a majority had virtually total control over policy.

Millions of non-Germans subjects in the German Empire, like the Polish, Danish and French minorities, were discriminated against, and a policy of Germanisation was implemented.

As part of the " Weltpolitik " ( global policy ), the German Empire demanded its " Platz an der Sonne " ( Place in the sun ).

Under his leadership, the German government sought to reduce tensions with the Soviet Union and improve relations with the German Democratic Republic, a policy known as the Ostpolitik.

There is growing momentum in Europe for the approach espoused by the Passive House ( Passivhaus in German ) Institute in Germany.

The court concluded that Sixth Army commander General Ludwig von Falkenhausen failed to apply an elastic defence properly as espoused by German defensive doctrine of the time.

The French historian Jean Doise espoused the revisionist hypothesis that Esterhazy might have been a French double agent masquerading as a traitor in order to pass along misinformation to the German army.

In his preface to the English translation of Homo Necans Burkert, who characterised himself on this occasion as " a philologist who starts from ancient Greek texts and attempts to find biological, psychological and sociological explanations for religious phenomena ", expressed some of the principles underlying a book that had seemed somewhat revolutionary to German readers in 1972 in its consistent application of inter-relationships of myth and ritual, the application to texts of the kind of functionalism espoused in Jane Ellen Harrison's Themis and the use of structuralism to elucidate an ethology of Greek religion, its social aspect.

Until his death he espoused a philosophy of music-making and life, captured in one of his most famous sayings ( translated from the German ):

Towards the end of the 19th century, Naumann, who was a monarchist and adherent of the German emperor Wilhelm II, espoused a liberal imperialism.

As some of these devotees espoused nationalistic German politics, and some of them were supporters of Adolf Hitler from the 1920s onwards, this group of people has been associated by some writers with the rise of Nazism.

), the ' United German Musical Union ', which espoused Liszt's musical enthusiasms.

The Protestant Reich Church, officially The German Evangelical Church () and colloquially Reichskirche, was a unified state church that espoused a single doctrine compatible with National Socialism.

Like many prominent anthropologists of the day, including Boas, his scholarship originated in the German idealism and romanticism espoused by earlier thinkers such as Johann Gottfried Herder.

Ironically, before launching the channel, the labels offered to fund MTV in a German speaking version, but were rejected by MTV management at the time who espoused a " one world, one language " programming philosophy ( at least for Europe since their Latin American Channels used Spanish and Portuguese ).

Notwithstanding the postwar status of the Storm Troopers in German service, the same sort of tactical doctrine was widely espoused in British and French service in late 1917 and 1918, with variable results.

Not the least important aspect of the Austromarxism espoused by Adler, Otto Bauer and Rudolf Hilferding was its relevance to the discussions on the left wing of German Social Democracy before 1933.