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.

The east Baltic world was transformed by military conquest: first the Livs, Latgallians and Estonians, then the Semigallians, Curonians, Prussians and the Finns underwent defeat, baptism, military occupation and sometimes extermination by groups of Danes, Germans and Swedes.

The Finns and Estonians have changed their usage of the term Saxony over the centuries to denote the whole country of Germany ( Saksa and Saksanmaa respectively ) and the Germans ( saksalaiset and sakslased, respectively ) now.

Many of its inhabitants were Germans and Finns, with the former forming a political and economical elite in the city.

In the following years, 600 Swedes and Finns, the latter group mainly Forest Finns from central Sweden, and also a number of Dutchmen and Germans in Swedish service, settled in the area.

The east Baltic world was transformed by military conquest: first the Livs, and Estonians, then the Prussians and the Finns underwent defeat, baptism, military occupation and sometimes extermination by groups of Germans, Danes and Swedes.

Slavs, Finns and Germans make up more than 94. 4 % of the population, while Tatars, Chuvash, Armenes and Khants make up the remaining part.

Most northern, central, and eastern Europeans ( Finns, Swedes, English, Irish, Germans, and Ukrainians ) showed > 90 % in the ‘ northern ’ population group, while most individual participants with southern European ancestry ( Italians, Greeks, Portuguese, Spaniards ) showed > 85 % in the ' southern ' group.

Two were captured by the Finns and tested ; one example was given to the Germans in 1940.

Ethnic groups that inhabited the area included: Chinese ; Cornish ; Croatians ; Finns ; French Canadians ; Germans ; Irish ; Italians ; Native Americans ; Poles ; and Slovenes.

While many demonyms are derived from placenames, many countries are named for their inhabitants ( Finland for the Finns, Germany for the Germans, Thailand for the Thais, Denmark for the Danes, France for the Franks, Slovakia for the Slovaks, and Slovenia for the Slovenes ).

The population was mostly English, Welsh, Irish, Germans, Swedes, Finns, Dutch, and African slaves.

Like the Dutch colony it aimed to squat, New Sweden was a multicultural affair, with Finns, Dutch, Walloons ( Belgians ) and Germans as well as Swedes among the settlers.

The partial removal of potentially trouble-making ethnic groups was a technique used consistently by Joseph Stalin during his career: Poles ( 1939 – 1941 and 1944 – 1945 ), Romanians ( 1941 and 1944 – 1953 ), Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians ( 1941 and 1945 – 1949 ), Volga Germans ( 1941 – 1945 ), Ingrian Finns ( 1929 – 1931 and 1935 – 1939 ), Finnish people in Karelia ( 1940 – 1941, 1944 ), Crimean Tatars, Crimean Greeks, Kalmyks, Balkars, Karachays, Meskhetian Turks, Karapapaks, Far East Koreans ( 1937 ), Chechens and Ingushs ( 1944 ).

Since they controlled an important trade route, the Daugava River ( Livonian: Väina ), their culture was highly developed through trade with the Gotlanders, Russians and Finns, and, from the end of the first millennium AD onwards, with the Germans, Swedes and Danes.

During Operation Arctic Fox the Germans and Finns were able to make some ground and took Salla as well as Kestenga, but overall the operation failed in terms of its strategic goals, as neither Murmansk nor the railway at Kandalaksha was captured.

The Finns and Germans agreed on a two-pronged, three-phase offensive.

One of the requirements on the treaty was the removal of any and all German troops currently on Finnish soil, which escalated in to a minor separate war commonly known as the Lapland war between the Finns and the Germans

Finns, Poles, Russians, Germans, Austrians, and Scots figured prominently among those who settled and worked in the neighborhood.

Germans lost only motor minesweeper R-29 to the Finnish attack since the old torpedoes used by the Finns did not have enough yield to sink larger minesweepers of which several were damaged.

The operation ended in a complete failure, with the Finns capturing 1, 231 German prisoners ( of which 175 were wounded ) in addition to 153 Germans killed in action with Finns losing 36 KIA, 67 WIA and 8 MIA.

Finns benefit from the operation since it showed to the Soviet Union that Finns were prepared to use force against the Germans.

`` The Germans in the fourth century were a very simple race, who comprehended little of natural laws, and who therefore referred phenomena they did not understand to supernatural intervention.

The Prosecutor in his opening remarks did refer to `` the germ of anti-Semitism '' among the Germans which Hitler `` stimulated and transformed ''.

The Germans did not invent something called blitzkrieg in the 1920s and 1930s.

Charles also did much to support Winfrid, later Saint Boniface, the " Apostle of the Germans.

Later, on the Eastern Front, the Red Army did deploy cavalry units effectively against the Germans.

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.

Finnish nationalists leaning on Germanism had been seeking German aid in freeing Finland from Russian hegemony since Autumn 1917, but the Germans did not want to prejudice their armistice and peace negotiations with Russia because of the pressure they were facing at the Western front.

Nevertheless, some Germans did speak out and show signs of protest during the summer of 1943.

By January 1943, Himmler reported that 629, 000 ethnic Germans had been resettled ; however, most resettled Germans did not live in the envisioned small farms, but in temporary camps or quarters in towns.

Furthermore, the nationalization of private property by Poland's former communist government did not apply only to Germans but was enforced on all people, regardless of ethnic background.

The Germans did not exert heavy-handed control over Albania's administration.

At the time of the Sudetenland crisis in 1938, Goebbels was well aware that the great majority of Germans did not want a war, and used every propaganda resource at his disposal to overcome what he called this " war psychosis ," by whipping up sympathy for the Sudeten Germans and hatred of the Czechs.

The implied threat that if colonial restoration did not occur, then the Germans would take back by force their former colonies attracted a large deal of hostile commentary on the inappropriateness of an Ambassador threatening his host country in such a manner.

It was Ribbentrop's fear that if German-Polish talks did take place, there was the danger that the Poles might back down and agree to the German demands as the Czechoslovaks had done in 1938 under Anglo-French pressure, and thereby deprive the Germans of their excuse for aggression.

Through all this time, Latvia remained largely under Baltic German hegemony, with Baltic Germans comprising the largest land-owners, a situation which did not change until Latvia's independence.

They did not mind holding talks with the Germans as a means of exposing German imperial ambitions ( territorial gains, reparations, etc.

The Germans also did experiments with converting various types of pistols to machine pistols ( Reihenfeuerpistolen, literally " row-fire pistols ").

The original line construction did not cover the area chosen by the Germans for their first challenge, which was through the Ardennes in 1940, a plan known as Fall Gelb.

By turning back at what he thought was the limit of Germany, he not only missed the Balts, but did not discover that more Germans, the Goths, had moved into the Baltic area.

Little interest was expressed by those he spoke to during trips to the United States in 1893 and London in 1894, and an attempt to involve the Germans angered French gymnasts who did not want the Germans invited at all.

Young also suggests that the story about Coubertin's having sketched the velodrome were untrue, and that he had in fact given an interview in which he suggested he did not want Germans to participate, something he later denied in a letter to the Kaiser.

Most of the people who panicked did not think that it was an invasion from Mars that was occurring, but rather an invasion by the Germans.