German operational theories began to evolve immediately after Germany's defeat in the First World War.

However, this model of constitutional monarchy was discredited and abolished following Germany's defeat in the First World War.

Germany's Anschluss of Austria and annexation of German-speaking Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia in 1938 and a return of territory from Czechoslovakia to Hungary as a result of the First Vienna Award are perhaps historical examples of this idea in practice.

Not a maritime power, and not a nation-state, as it became one, Germany's participation in Western imperialism was negligible until the late 19th century and the participation of Austria was primarily as a result of Habsburg control of the First Empire, the Spanish throne, and other royal houses.

In 1918, his art was to change dramatically as a direct consequence of Germany's economic, political and military collapse at the end of the First World War.

It is most often recognised as the place where Germany's first democratic constitution was signed after the First World War, giving its name to the Weimar Republic period in German politics, of 1918 – 1933.

Hugh S. Gibson, First Secretary of the U. S. legation at Brussels, made clear to the German government that executing Cavell would further harm Germany's already damaged reputation.

* Slovak Republic ( 1939-1945 ), Germany's puppet ally during ( and shortly before ) World War II, also called the First Slovak Republic or the Slovak state

First, in March, the Party of Democratic Socialism — the former Socialist Unity Party of Germany — was heavily defeated in East Germany's first free elections.

It was not " Germany's First Talking Film ", as the marketing had it, but it was the first to be released in the United States.

The 500, 000 Jews in Germany, who accounted for only 0. 76 % of the overall population, were singled out by the Nazi propaganda machine as an enemy within who were responsible for Germany's defeat in the First World War and for its subsequent economic difficulties, such as the 1920s hyperinflation and Great Depression.

* Germany's First Bid for Colonies 1884 – 1885: a Move in Bismarck's European Policy, 1938.

Lettow-Vorbeck was acclaimed after the war as one of Germany's heroes, and his Schutztruppe was celebrated as the only colonial German force in the First World War not to have been defeated in open combat ( although they often retreated when outnumbered ).

The First and the Last: Germany's Fighter Force in WWII ( Fortunes of War ).

Ypres occupied a strategic position during the First World War because it stood in the path of Germany's planned sweep across the rest of Belgium, as had been called for in the Schlieffen Plan.

Germany's move was aimed at testing the relationship between Britain and France and possibly intimidate Britain into an alliance with Germany, as well as enforcing claims for compensation for acceptance of effective French control of the North African kingdom, where France's pre-eminence had been upheld by the 1906 Algeciras Conference following the Tangier Crisis ( or First Moroccan Crisis ) of 1905-1906.

In 1879 Renault published his Introduction to the Study of International Law and in 1917 First Violations of International Law by Germany, concerning the invasion of Belgium and of Luxembourg in breach of Germany's treaty obligations.

It was intended to be carved with the names of Germany's 1. 8 million dead in the First World War.

Three of those national finals were against Austrian teams – Admira Vienna, Rapid Vienna, and First Vienna – which played in Germany's Gauliga Ostmark after Austria's incorporation into the Reich through the 1938 Anschluss.

Whilst Schwitters was never an official member of Berlin Dada, he was closely linked to many members of the group, in particular Raoul Hausmann and Hans Arp, and the poem is written in a dadaist style, using multiple perspectives, fragments of found text, and absurdist elements to mirror the fragmentation of the narrator's emotional state in the throes of love, or of Germany's political, military and economic collapse after the First World War.

Moreover, the post of mayor in the three German city-states is equivalent to that of a Ministerpräsident ( head of government of one of Germany's constitutive States ) and the respective post is referred to as Regierender Bürgermeister ( Governing Mayor ) in Berlin and Erster Bürgermeister ( First Mayor ) in Hamburg.

In the event the leading party of the Second International, the SPD, voted overwhelmingly in support of Germany's entry into the First World War by approving war credits on 4 August 1914.

Plans for it to become part of the United Baltic Duchy, subject to the German Empire, were thwarted by Germany's surrender of the Baltic region at the end of the First World War.

In the 1914-1918 period, the Party's outspoken support for Germany's participation in the First World War in effect affirmed the deviant position taken by Noske in the pre-war years.

* Sean McMeekin, " The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power ", Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2010.

For the only time in West Germany's history, the government fell on a vote of no confidence.

For Hitler, the Soviet Union was to be Germany's Lebensraum and he had no interest in even setting up puppet governments in a region he planned to colonize.

For all of his efforts as West Germany's leader, Adenauer was named Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1953.

For example, Hamburg's memorial, unveiled in 1906, is considered one of the greatest expressions of imperial Germany's Bismarck cult and an important development in the history of German memorial art.

For the beginning of his reign, Otto III faced opposition from the Slavic peoples along Germany's eastern border.

For decades, Germany's allies had stated their support for reunification ; Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who speculated that a country that " decided to kill millions of Jewish people " in the Holocaust " will try to do it again ", was one of the few world leaders to publicly oppose it.

For being indiscreet enough to advance the claim to Germany's lebensraum at a time when Germany was still more or less disarmed, Hugenberg was sacked from the German cabinet by Hitler.

For example, American historian Charles Sydnor noted numerous errors in Hitler's War, such as Irving's unreferenced statement that the Jews who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 were well supplied with weapons from Germany's allies.

For some Germans, Dietrich remained a controversial figure for having sided with Nazi Germany's foes during the Second World War.

For three consecutive years ( 1958 – 1960 ) he won the gruelling race at Germany's Nürburgring, the first two years in an Aston Martin ( where he won almost single-handedly ) and the third in the memorable Tipo 61 " birdcage " Maserati, co-driving with young American prospect Dan Gurney.

For example, the French payment following the Franco-Prussian war played a major role in Germany's decision to move on the gold standard.

On 24 July Cardinal Faulhaber sent a handwritten letter to Hitler, noting that " For Germany's prestige in the East and the West and before the whole world, this handshake with the papacy, the greatest moral power in the history of the world, is a feat of immeasurable importance.

For the remainder of the occupation, the 4th Marine Brigade stayed along the Rhine until Germany's surrender.

For the same year, Canada's working poverty rate was 7. 8 %, the UK's was 4 %, and Germany's was 3. 8 %.

For his seminal and profound services to the historiography of the Holocaust, he was honored with Germany's Order of Merit, the highest recognition that can be paid to a non-German.

For the Euro 2004, Iceland were led by Ásgeir Sigurvinsson topping the group table for a while, with 4 wins and even held Germany to a 0 – 0 draw in Reykjavík, however both Germany and Scotland had a game in hand to them and both used them to their maximum potential, with Scotland beating Lithuania and Germany beat Scotland in Germany's penultimate game.

For all intents and purposes, it marked the end of major organized resistance on Nazi Germany's Western Front, as more than 300, 000 troops were taken prisoner.

For these reasons, the Soviet oilfields were extremely important to Germany's industry and armed forces as the war became global, the power of the Allies grew, and shortages started to occur in Axis resources.

For example his discussion of the ideas of Karl-Otto Apel, one of Germany's leading philosophers ( see Albert's Transzendentale Träumereien ... meaning Transcendental Reveries.

For Wehler, Germany's defeat in 1945 finally smashed the " pre-modern " social structure and let Germany become a normal ' Western ' country.

For Mommsen, the major responsibility for the outbreak of the First World War rests on Germany's shoulders.

For a peace of magnanimity or of fair and equal treatment, based on such ' ideology ' as the Fourteen Points of the President, could only have the effect of shortening the interval of Germany's recovery and hastening the day when she will once again hurl at France her greater numbers and her superior resources and technical skill.

For the only time in West Germany's history, the government fell on a vote of no confidence.

For Arlosoroff and other Zionists, however, the potential mass transfer of Germany's Jews along with their assets to Eretz Israel presented a historic opportunity to help guarantee the future establishment of a Jewish nation in the ancient Biblical Land of Promise.