Among his most famous paintings are the triptych Metropolis ( 1928 ), a scornful portrayal of depraved actions of Germany's Weimar Republic, where nonstop revelry was a way to deal with the wartime defeat and financial catastrophe, and the startling Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden ( 1926 ).

The newly created Special Department for Money and Credit in Germany's western zones of occupation in September 1947, under Erhard, focused attention immediately upon the general theme of monetary and financial recovery, resulting in the adoption of the so-called Homburg plan in April 1948 that set the stage for the recovery of the economy.

The spirit of reformist optimism was cut short by the 1973 oil crisis and the major public services strike 1974, which gave Germany's trade unions, led by Heinz Kluncker, a big wage increase but reduced Brandt's financial leeway for further reforms.

* Germany's promises of " generous financial support " were empty.

Feder briefly dominated the NSDAP's official views on financial politics, but after he became chairman of the party's economic council in 1931, his anti-capitalist views led to a great decline in financial support from Germany's major industrialists.

Frankfurt / Main was not only West Germany's financial heart, but also home to two large airfields ( the Rhein-Main Air Base ) that were designated to receive U. S. reinforcements in the event of war.

One of the university's ambitions is to become Germany's leading university for finance and economics, given the school's proximity to one of Europe's financial centers.

What he wanted was small wars of plunder to help support Germany's struggling economy ( although the Nazis never let on about their financial problems ).

The term German model is most often used in economics to describe post-World War II West Germany's means of using ( according to University College London Professor Wendy Carlin ) innovative industrial relations, vocational training, and closer relationships between the financial and industrial sectors to cultivate economic prosperity.

After World War II, the headquarters first moved to Düsseldorf and, in 1958, to Germany's financial centre, Frankfurt.

Adding to Hitler's worries, German financial advisers warned the Nazi government that a mass exodus of Jewish laborers from the German workforce would badly damage Germany's economic stability.

Other researchers have documented the contribution made from other Warsaw Pact intelligence agencies to the fledgling Sandinista government including the East German Stasi, by using recently declassified documents from Berlin as well as from former Stasi spymaster Markus Wolf who described the Stasi's assistance in the creation of a secret police force modeled on East Germany's

In 1940, during the early days of World War II, Pujol decided that he must make a contribution " for the good of humanity " ( and to oppose the Franco regime ) by helping Britain – which, with its Empire, was Germany's only adversary at the time.

Roessler's first major contribution to Soviet intelligence came in May 1941 when he was able to deliver details of Operation Barbarossa, Germany's impending invasion of the Soviet Union.

Germany's decision to reduce its intended acquisition resulted in the UK taking 5 % of the programme from Germany, giving the UK 39. 6 % and Germany 16 %.

Each of the seven Eurofighter Development Aircraft ( DA ) have specific responsibilities in the test programme, Germany's DA5 and the UK's DA4 were involved in radar trials.

His views on this question were summarized in a memorandum of December, 1907, of which Rath gives a résumé: Holstein objected to the programme of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and the Navy League on three main grounds: the ill-feeling likely to be aroused in South Germany, the inevitable dislocation of the finances through the huge additional charges involved, and the suspicion of Germany's motives in foreign countries, which would bind Britain still closer to France.

The boulevard was named Stalinallee between 1949 and 1961 ( previously Große Frankfurter Straße ), and was a flagship building project of East Germany's reconstruction programme after World War II.

Claus Spahn ( born 15 May 1940 in Bottrop, Germany ) is a former TV programme editor of Germany's Westdeutscher Rundfunk ( WDR ) broadcasting corporation, a presenter, producer and author.

The programme was originally designed as East Germany's answer to the short-lived West German anti-Communist programme Die Rote Optik (" The Red View ", ARD, 1958-1960 ).

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

Auschwitz II – Birkenau was designated by the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Germany's Minister of the Interior, as the place of the " final solution of the Jewish question in Europe ".

" This was farsighted, because when the House of Hanover ascended the British throne they would retain the territories that became the Kingdom of Hanover ( situated in modern-day Germany's Lower Saxony ).

The choice of Bonn was made mainly due to the advocacy of West Germany's first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, a former Cologne Mayor and a native of that area.

Berlin's previous history as united Germany's capital was strongly connected with Imperial Germany, and more ominously with Nazi Germany.

The heated debate that resulted was settled by the Bundestag ( Germany's parliament ) only on 20 June 1991.

The German national designers ' organization Deutscher Werkbund was formed in 1907 by Hermann Muthesius to harness the new potentials of mass production, with a mind towards preserving Germany's economic competitiveness with England.

Germany's last offensive on its Western front, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive launched towards the vital port of Antwerp in December 1944.

Having lost 27 million people in the war, the Soviet Union was determined to destroy Germany's capacity for another war, and pushed for such in wartime conferences.

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

As a result of the Treaty, Germany's territory was reduced by about 13 %, several million ethnic Germans came under foreign rule, even though they were the majority in many of those areas, the Rhineland was demilitarized and Allied troops occupied several areas.

The weakness of Germany's strategic position was exacerbated by the rapid collapse of the other Central Powers in late 1918, following Allied victories on the Macedonian and Italian fronts.

Hunt argues that it was not the guilt of wickedness, but the shame of weakness that seized Germany's national psychology, and " served as a solvent of the Weimar democracy and also as an ideological cement of Hitler's dictatorship.

The Final Solution () was Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust.

The only exception is the Jewish American officer, who is shown as both hyper-intelligent and very unscrupulous, which Bartov noted seems to imply that the real tragedy of World War II was the Nazis did not get a chance to exterminate all of the Jews, who have now returned with Germany's defeat to once more exploit the German people.

The enormous success of the Dopolavoro in Fascist Italy was the key factor in Nazi Germany's creation of its own version of the Dopolavoro, the Kraft durch Freude ( KdF ) or " Strength through Joy " program of the Nazi government's German Labour Front, which became even more successful than the Dopolavoro.

This myth was invoked, in considerably different circumstances, in the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I.

One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the " Master of Darkness " by the British Film Institute.

In 1800, Germany's social structure was poorly suited to entrepreneurship or economic development.

Germany's largest airline is former national carrier Lufthansa that was privatised in the 1990s.

This rule, often called the " five percent hurdle ", was incorporated into Germany's election law to prevent political fragmentation and strong minor parties.

On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica was the scene of the Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe.

Representative of Germany's industry was the steel giant Krupp, whose first factory was built in Essen.