The book describes the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

* 1994: The military parade was opened by Eurocorps, a newly created European army unit including German soldiers.

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

Philip Augustus of France defeated an army consisting of Imperial German, English and Flemish soldiers, led by Otto IV of Germany.

Following the Soviet victory at Stalingrad it was found that some German soldiers in the besieged city, cut off from supplies, resorted to cannibalism.

Later, following the German surrender in January 1943, roughly 100, 000 German soldiers were taken prisoner of war ( POW ).

Lewin ( 2001 ) reports that "... consumption of fresh, warm camel feces has been recommended by Bedouins as a remedy for bacterial dysentery ; its efficacy ( probably attributable to the antibiotic subtilisin from Bacillus subtilis ) was confirmed by German soldiers in Africa during World War II ".

*" Evaluation of the WWII German ID tag system "-Article on the weak points of WWII era German ID tags based on observations made during the recovery of missing soldiers.

Rearmament and the founding of the Bundeswehr in 1955 brought with it a wave of war films which tended to depict the ordinary German soldiers of World War II as brave and apolitical.

The last of the 08 / 15 films ends with Germany occupied by a gang of American soldiers portrayed as bubble-gum chewing, slack-jawed morons and uncultured louts, totally inferior in every respect to the heroic German soldiers shown in the 08 / 15 films.

) of 1959, which deals with the Battle of Stalingrad, the focus is on celebrating the heroism of the German soldier in that battle, who are shown as valiantly holding out against overwhelming odds with no mention at all of what those soldiers were fighting for, namely National Socialist ideology or the Holocaust.

Bartov wrote no German film of the 1950s showed the deep commitment felt by many German soldiers to National Socialism, the utter ruthless way the German Army fought the war and the mindless nihilist brutality of the later Wehrmacht.

Following the war, many former German soldiers joined the Foreign Legion to pursue a military career with an elite unit, an option that was no longer possible in Germany.

( To make the confusion even greater, where Knecht in German received a military meaning — in " Landsknecht "— it denoted foot soldiers rather than cavalry ).

In fact, the three Western commandants regularly protested the presence of the East German National People's Army ( NVA ) in East Berlin, particularly on the occasion of military parades.

Steiner continued speaking regularly to the members of the Theosophical Society, becoming the head of its newly constituted German section in 1902 without ever formally joining the society.

Since 2012 the university is regularly called an elite university in all kinds of German media because the university's overall concept was awarded in the German Universities Excellence Initiative.

Forster regularly published essays on the scientific and discovery expeditions of his times and continued to be a very prolific translator ; for instance, he wrote about Cook's third journey to the South Pacific, and about the Bounty expedition, as well as translating Cook's and Bligh's diaries from these journeys into German.

Talented German and Austrian lieder singers of a younger generation include Olaf Bär, Matthias Goerne, Wolfgang Holzmair ( who also performs regularly in opera ), Thomas Quasthoff, Stephan Genz and Christian Gerhaher.

Shinkansen trains now run regularly at speeds up to, placing them alongside the French TGV, Italian TAV, Spanish AVE, and German ICE among the fastest trains in the world.

The wreckage of the remaining seven ships of the German fleet ( and some other sites such as the blockships ) has become increasingly popular as a venue for recreational scuba divers, and is regularly listed in dive magazines and internet forums among the top dive sites in the UK, Europe, and even the world.

The first regularly scoring German ace pilots-notably Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke began their careers at this time.

He regularly conducted the South German Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1950 to 1966.

Marnix of Sint-Aldegonde, a prominent propagandist for the cause of the rebels, regularly used references to alleged intentions on the part of Spain to " colonize " the Netherlands, for instance in his 1578 address to the German Diet.

In order to prevent its semi-open heathland from being repopulated by trees, especially pines and, to a lesser extent, silver birches, which would cause the loss of this millennia-old environment and its many inhabitants, including often very rare animal and plant species, sheep are allowed to graze it regularly ; these are almost exclusively the local German moorland sheep, the Heidschnucke.

After this, German ceased composing new works regularly.

Soldiers stationed around the Mediterranean, including both German Afrika Korps and British Eighth Army troops, regularly tuned in to hear it.

Consistent with his program of maintaining the family ’ s German cultural heritage, Emil gave high priority to regularly reading German literature aloud to the children.

In addition to her opera performances, Ludwig regularly gave recitals of Lieder ( together with the German pianist Sebastian Peschko and on occasion, Leonard Bernstein ) and as a soloist with orchestras.

On 1 July 1967, BBC Two became the first television channel in Europe to broadcast regularly in colour, using the West German PAL system that is still in use today although being gradually superseded by digital systems.

While in Germany, he regularly wrote for German press on Georgia and the Caucasus, and was involved in organizing a Georgian Liberation Committee.

In 1858 Magnus Knappe, a German minister, began to travel regularly to the Broumov area and preach to the German-speaking people there.

For example: English quarter, Italian quarto, Interlingua quarto, but Esperanto kvarono ( derived regularly from the numeral kvar ' four ', as German Viertel is derived from vier, and Russian четвёртый ( četvërtyj ) from четыре ( četyre )); also English government, French gouvernement, Interlingua governamento, but Esperanto registaro ( derived regularly from the verb regi ' to rule ', as German Regierung is from regieren, and Russian правительство ( pravitel ' stvo ) is from править ( pravit ') ).

The party regularly attended annual meetings of the German People's Union and the National Front, and Janmaat spoke of his good contacts with the latter party's leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.

According to German war-time reports, about 50 civilians were murdered ( some raped ) by the Red Army on its initial entry into Goldap in October 1944.

The Herero leaders repeatedly complained about violation of this treaty, as Herero women and girls were raped by Germans, a crime that the German authorities were reluctant to punish.

After that, the German Ministry of Propaganda reported that war crimes had taken place in East Prussian villages, in particular in Nemmersdorf, where ( according to the Ministry ) inhabitants had been raped and killed by the advancing Soviets.

The next victims were Raymond King Jr., 15, abducted on July 23, raped and bludgeoned to death ; Sigrun Arnd, an 18-year old German tourist, raped and bludgeoned two days later ; Terri Lyn Carson, 15, raped and strangled on July 27 ; and Louise Chartrand, age 17, the last victim identified, who died on July 30.

On July 1, 1945, he denounced " the ransacking of our homesalready destroyed by bombs ", " the pillaging and destruction of our houses and farms in the countryside by armed bands of robbers ", the " murder of defenceless men ", " the rape of German women and girls by bestial lechers " ( it was estimated that 2 million German women were raped, with a ten percent death rate mainly from suicide ; women of other nationalities were raped, too ), and the indifference of the occupying authorities to the risk of famine in Germany: all these horrors finding justification on the basis of " the false view that all Germans are criminals and deserve the most severe punishment, including death and extermination!

Anna Weiss, unresponsive after being raped by German soldiers earlier in the series, is sent to a sanitarium and killed by carbon monoxide poisoning as part of the Nazi Action 14f13.

He goes to see his Grandfather who takes him into the canyons and tells him about his family and the German man who helped his great-grandmother after she was raped by a several white men and went by the name White Wolf.

His mother was raped and his grandfather was killed by German communists.