) by Ernst Moritz Arndt, called for Germans to unite, to put aside sectionalism and the rivalries of the various German kingdoms and principalities, to establish a unified German state, ( not least ) in order to be able to defend Germany.

Von Braun and the other Germans were sent to Fort Bliss, Texas, joining the Army's newly formed Research and Development Division Sub-office ( Rocket ).

Much of the road infrastructure of the province dates from Von Zimmerer's time, since the Germans needed a means of travelling along the coast and from plantation to plantation.

Mistaken by the Germans for Alfred Butteridge, he is taken on board and questioned by the German ambassador Von Winterfeld.

Educated Germans such as Joseph Wedemeyer, Oswald Ottendorfer and Friedrich Sorge were important players in the creation and growth of trade unions, and many Germans and their Vereine ( German-American clubs ) were also often politically active.

There is a hill overlooking the town called Cross Hill, which has a fort on it with some Victorian cannons and a pair of BL 5. 5 inch Mark I naval guns, that were originally fitted to HMS Hood ; the latter were used to repel a U-Boat German attack during World War II with surprisingly great success-the Germans did not approach the island again.

The Deutsche Mark had a very high reputation among the East Germans and was considered stable.

Before the 1982 World Cup ( held in Spain ) former " leftist " Breitner caused a major uproar in Germany when he accepted an offer by a German cosmetics company to pay him the – what many Germans regarded at that time as a " scandalously high " – sum of 150, 000 Deutsche Mark if he shaved off his fluffy full beard, used their fragrance and advertised for the company.

After the first use of British Mark I tanks on 15 September 1916, the Germans had begun to introduce antitank-weapons.

With the conquest of the Slavic communities and the founding of the Mark by the Germans ( Henry the Fowler founded the castle of Meissen in 929 ), settlement in the Pirna area is again verifiable.

The Mark III US tank resembles the Soviet T-34, said to be a major reason the Germans ( CSA ) developed the Tiger Tank.

The excesses of this ideology in Germany are a matter exclusively of the Germans, ... while Russian fascism is a combination of natural national conservatism with a passionate desire for true changes .".

Van Hanegem was known for rough, passionate play against German sides ( before the 1974 final, he exhorted the Dutch side to " stuff the Germans ").

" A professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University, Antony Polonsky, said that his " research appears to be sound ", but he and other reviewers have questioned the " extent of Jewish persecution of Germans ", in Sack's book.

As these traveling musicos traveled into areas where the Germans, Poles and Czechs lived, they began to incorporate the oom-pah sound into their music.

The German letter W is pronounced the same as the English letter V and the English W sound does not exist in German, causing some Germans to hypercorrect Vs in English and say wodka ( vodka ), willage ( village ) or wery ( very ).

The rest of the inhabitants decided to abandon the village and were escorted by the Germans who arrived at Kuty, alerted by the glow of fire and the sound of gunfire.

This attracted the attention of many Italo-disco producers ( mostly Italians and Germans ) and by the late 80s while the Germans faded out of the outdated Italo-disco scene and went for other newly rising popular scenes, mainly trance, the Italians created a new sound especially for Japan, but virtually unknown in the rest of the world.

In November 1934, the Germans formally informed the British of their wish to reach a treaty with Britain, under which the Reichsmarine would be allowed to grow until the size of 35 % of the Royal Navy ( the figure was raised because the phrase of a German goal of “ one third of the Royal Navy except in cruisers, destroyers, and submarines ” did not sound well in speeches ).

" During her progress the sound of war was hushed, quarrels were suspended, arms laid aside, and the restless Germans had an opportunity of tasting the blessings of peace and harmony.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

`` Since the war I have seen the way the Germans have behaved and I think, Holy Mother, we have behaved like this for hundreds of years.

From six to nine million additional Germans would be evicted, though most would have fled, and Poland would receive far more from Germany than the poor territories, including the great Pripet Marshes, which she lost to Russia.

At Yalta he thought more about the six million Germans who would have to leave, trying to find work in Germany, and Roosevelt objected to the Western Neisse River being chosen in the south, instead of the Eastern Neisse, both of which flow into the Oder.

Twice in the last thirty years our enemies, the Germans, have passed through this corridor.

Herodian says " in their opinion Alexander showed no honourable intention to pursue the war and preferred a life of ease, when he should have marched out to punish the Germans for their previous insolence ".

* German Americans-German cuisine ( the Pennsylvania Dutch, although descended from Germans, arrived earlier than the bulk of German migrants and have distinct culinary traditions )

Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944 and 1945.

Later, however, the British would have spectacular success defeating the Italians and Germans at the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, and in the D-Day invasion of Normandy with the help of American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces.

There are sometimes differences ; for example, the Germans have used " J " instead of " I " for iodine, so the character would not be confused with a Roman numeral.

During the heated debates in the Central Committee about a possible peace with the Germans, Lenin did not have a majority ; both Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin had more support for their own position than Lenin.

Many people have mistakenly claimed that my ideas were formed under the influence of Strindberg and the Germans … but that is wrong.

Without his work in the early ' 30s, Churchill would not have had the tools to take on the Germans.

Shortly before leaving Florence, as they knew that they would soon have to retreat, the Germans murdered many freedom fighters and political opponents publicly, in streets and squares including the Piazza Santo Spirito.

So the media controlled by the East German government emphasised the use of the official name, DDR, while West Germans, western media and statesmen may have used other names such as Middle Germany, emphasising the location of East Germany in the centre of pre-1937 Germany.

Reformers said the solution was to have faith in the ability of Germans to reform their laws and institutions in peaceful fashion.

Himmler ordered that those who refused to be classified as ethnic Germans should be deported to concentration camps, have their children taken away, or be assigned to forced labour.

Like Hitler, Ribbentrop was determined that in the next crisis, Germany would not have its professed demands met in another Munich-type summit, and that the next crisis to be caused by Germany would result in the war that Chamberlain had " cheated " the Germans out of at Munich.

Alleged by the Germans to have been a deliberate act, the NIOD announced in January 2005 that its study of the incident confirmed that it was an accident caused by poor communications and chaos in the airspace.

The Germans ' late attempt to blow the road bridge was probably foiled by a local Dutch resistance hero, Jan van Hoof, who is said to have cut the wires to the bridge.

To have had any chance of success, however, the operation would have required air and naval supremacy over the English Channel-neither of which the Germans ever had at any stage during the Battle of Britain.