" Canadian historian Holger H. Herwig claims the plan started as a result of discussions by Hitler in November 1940 and May 1941 when he stated his need to “ deploy long-range bombers against American cities from the Azores .” Due to their location, he thought the Portuguese Azores islands were Germany's “ only possibility of carrying out aerial attacks from a land base against the United States .” At the time, Portuguese dictator Salazar had allowed German U-boats and navy ships to refuel there, but from 1943 onwards, he leased bases in the Azores to the British, allowing the Allies to provide aerial coverage in the middle of the Atlantic.

The Stasi, East Germany's secret police, unsuccessfully attempted to spark violence by planting violent agent provocateurs in the middle of crowds.

Zaisser ( left ) beside Ulbricht ( middle ), 1953After the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in March 1953, Moscow favored replacing East Germany's Stalinist party leader Walter Ulbricht and considered Zaisser a potential candidate.

Hildebrand has argued that Germany's position as the " country in the middle " bordered by Russia and France has often limited the options of the German government in the 19th-20th centuries.

With these tragedies, to which may be added Die Rechte des Herzens ( The Rights of the Heart ) and Das Fräulein von Scuderi ( The Lady of Scuderi ), the comedy Hans Frey, and an unfinished tragedy on the subject of Agnes Bernauer, Ludwig ranks immediately after Christian Friedrich Hebbel as Germany's most notable dramatic poet at the middle of the 19th century.

The Freikorps, which consisted of World War I veterans, maintained that the German working class, supported by the S. P. D., was responsible for Germany's defeat in World War I.

The Ju 88 was just entering service when Germany's own high-power " hyper engine " class powerplants started bench testing.

Introduced two or three years after the Italian Fiat 127 and the French Renault 5, the model was seen at the time as Germany's first home grown entrant in Europe's emerging " supermini " class.

The Bavarian State Railways ( K. Bay. St. B ) built some 0-8-8-0T tank locomotives of class Gt 2x4 / 4, classified after unification of Germany's railway systems as class BR96.

Germaniawerft, under the supervision of Spanish naval architect Raymondo Lorenzo d ' Euevilley-Montjustin, continued his work on the Karp class submarines, improving and modifying one into Germany's first U-boat, U-1, which was commissioned into the Imperial German Navy on 14 December 1906.

GIS has very good relations with many top class CT units in the world, amongst these are Great Britain's 22nd SAS, Spain's GEO and UEI, France's GIGN, Germany's GSG 9 and SEK, Belgium's ESI, Austria's GEK and the Netherlands's DSI.

In 2010 Gidley co-drove Team CytoSport's Porsche RS Spyder with Germany's Klaus Graf and Sascha Maassen to second in class ( and overall ) at Laguna Seca, but he reportedly hasn't given up on a return to major open wheel racing.

If Germany were to occupy oil-rich Romania, this would undercut all of the British strategic assumptions based on Germany's need to import oil from the Americas.

Potsdamer Platz was also the location of Germany's first electric street lights, installed in 1882 by the electrical giant Siemens, founded and based in the city.

Known as the " Death's Head Units ", the SS-TV was first organized as several battalions, each based at one of Germany's major concentration camps, the oldest of which was at Dachau.

Admiral Wilhelm Marschall after the war was to call Raeder's strategy as " wishful and prestige thinking, fateful overestimation of Germany's political and military possiblities, unfounded underestimation of the enemy England, and nonsensical insistence upon operational thoughts tied to the Z Plan ", a naval strategy based upon " phantasy, prestige-seeking and playing vabanque ".

At war ’ s end, American, British, and Soviet scientific intelligence teams competed to capture Germany's rocket engineers along with the German rockets themselves and the designs on which they were based.

Although the Hitler-Stalin pact had served Germany's interests well, both strategically and economically, his whole career had been based on anti-communism and the belief that " Jewish Bolshevism " was main threat to Germany and the Aryan race.

Meyer said the idea for having the Klingons claim Shakespeare as their own was based on Nazi Germany's attempt to claim the Bard as German before World War II.

From this point on, as Andrew Roberts in particular argues, Halifax set his face firmly towards a policy of deterrence based on increased rearmament, including the reintroduction of conscription ; strengthening of alliances and economic support to Eastern Europe ; and a firmer line towards Germany, Italy and Japan in the hope that increased British resolution would increase the risks of a combination of all three ( of note, when war did begin, neither Japan nor Italy was prepared to join in until the pendulum had swung much further in Germany's favour ).

Spy films of the ' 40s included Fritz Lang's atmospheric post-war spy melodrama Cloak and Dagger ( 1946 ), with Gary Cooper starring as atomic scientist and physics professor Alvah Jasper ( a character based upon A-bomb co-developer J. Robert Oppenheimer ), on a mission to discover Germany's secret plans to build an A bomb.

Membership in Germany's ethnic minorities is based on self-identification only.

Germany's protectionism, Bernstein argued, was only based on political expediency, isolating Germany from the world ( especially from Britain ), creating an autarky that would only result in conflict between Germany and the rest of the world.

Schacht's disillusionment with the existing Weimar government did not indicate a particular shift in his overall philosophy, but rather arose primarily out of two issues: first, his objection to the inclusion of Socialist Party elements in the government, and the effect of their various construction and make-work projects on public expenditures and borrowings ( and the consequent undermining of the government's anti-inflation efforts ); second, on his fundamentally unwavering desire to see Germany retake its place on the international stage, and his recognition that " as the powers became more involved in their own economic problems in 1931 and 1932 ... a strong government based on a broad national movement could use the existing conditions to regain Germany's sovereignty and equality as a world power.

The rigidity of the plan, based around a minutely detailed mobilisation schedule and railway timetable, prevented any political moves which might have averted hostilities, as Kaiser William discovered on the eve of the war when he considered not invading France in order to avoid Great Britain joining Germany's enemies.

This notion is based on a long history of conflict with ethnic Poles, first by the German-language and culture Prussians then by the united German state, starting with three partitions of Poland, germanization in the 19th and 20th centuries, and culminating in the Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 and the genocide of six million Polish citizens that ensued during the German occupation 1939 – 1945.

Dresdner Bank AG was one of Germany's largest banking corporations and was based in Frankfurt.

Germany also uses the Blue Angel, based on Germany's standards.

Among enthusiasts, Germany's reputation is primarily based on wines made from the Riesling grape variety, which at its best is used for aromatic, fruity and elegant white wines that range from very crisp and dry to well-balanced, sweet and of enormous aromatic concentration.

ISTQB, following the formation of its own syllabus based on ISEB's and Germany's ASQF syllabi, also adopted IEEE 829 as the reference standard for software and system test documentation.

Metallgesellschaft AG was formerly one of Germany's largest industrial conglomerates based in Frankfurt.

A consortium of broadcasters and record companies led by Time Warner, Sony Television, Polygram Records and EMI Music, but notably excluding the German based Bertelsmann Music Group, saw their investment in VIVA as an antidote to the " vain posturing power of MTV Networks executives " according to Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Germany's justification for seeking world power was based on being a young nation with high population growth, a low average national age, significant immigration and urban expansion.

In 2002, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the German government had violated its constitution in its treatment of the Osho movement, using deprecating expressions about it that were not based on fact.

In Hillgruber's opinion, after the war had begun, a split occurred within the German leadership between the moderate imperialism of the Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, who wished for territorial gains if they could be obtained, but was prepared to settle for a peace based on the pre-1914 status quo, and a more radical group centered around General Erich Ludendorff and the rest of the Third Supreme Command who wanted total victory over all of Germany's enemies, no matter what the cost, and very wide-ranging annexations in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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.

To further highlight the difference between a problem and an instance, consider the following instance of the decision version of the traveling salesman problem: Is there a route of at most 2000 kilometres in length passing through all of Germany's 15 largest cities?

In 1890 the Verein established a research program to examine " the Polish question " or Ostflucht: the influx of Polish farm workers into eastern Germany as local labourers migrated to Germany's rapidly industrialising cities.

The SD also maintained local offices in Germany's cities and larger towns.

According to the official 2007 Crime Report for Germany, Schwerin was the only German city with a crime rate over 17, 000 total offenses committed per 100, 000 inhabitants ; thus being 1st in the list of Germany's most dangerous cities.

It is situated in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at an equal distance of about from Germany's two largest cities, Berlin and Hamburg.

Greifswald is also roughly equidistant from Germany's two largest cities, Berlin () and Hamburg ().

Founded by the Romans, it is one of Germany's oldest cities.

Incessant bombing of Germany's infrastructure and cities caused tremendous casualties and disruption.

Britain's major cities are all encased in Domes, and with the contributions of Austrian expatriate Kurt Gödel, the government hopes to win the war by altering Germany's history conclusively.

The natural beauty of the Hudson Valley has earned the Hudson River the nickname " America's Rhineland ", a comparison to the famous 40 mile ( 65 km ) stretch of Germany's Rhine River valley between the cities of Bingen and Koblenz.

Later in the War the command destroyed a significant proportion of Nazi Germany's industries notably in the Ruhr valley and many German cities including Cologne and Dresden in 1945.

As in Australia, Germany's mayors serve as the actual executive leaders of their cities.

The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region spreads from Dortmund-Bochum-Essen-Duisburg ( Ruhr Area ) in the north, to the urban areas of the cities of Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf ( the state capital ), Wuppertal, Cologne ( the region's largest and Germany's fourth largest city ), and Bonn in the south.

Roughly 60 % of the city's land is wooded, making Siegen one of Germany's greenest cities.

* Municipal police ( Schutzpolizei ; " protection police ") served as Germany's municipal police force and was tasked with maintaining order in German cities and larger towns.

At the height of the Second World War, in response to heavy bombing of Germany's cities, the combined Feuerschutzpolizei and Freiwillige Feuerwehren numbered nearly two million members.

By 1900, Düren was among Germany's richest cities ( with 42 millionaires and 93 factories ) and had a population of 27, 168.

The mayors of cities, which simultaneously comprise one of Germany's 112 urban districts usually bear this title.

May successfully applied urban design techniques to the city of Frankfurt am Main during Germany's Weimar period, and in 1930 less successfully exported those ideas to Soviet Union cities, newly created under Stalinist rule.

Finally, rockets similar to Nazi Germany's V-2 were used as Vengeance Weapons against U. S. cities.