Additionally, Germany's use of glider-borne and paratroop forces to infiltrate and attack strategic points behind the front lines ( Blitzkrieg tactics ) generated a request for a compact, selective-fire infantry small arm to equip support units and line-of-communications troops who might find themselves engaged in combat without prior warning.

The Bastau drains into the Weser from west to east, roughly parallel with, and south of, the western arm of modern Germany's Midland Canal, where it crosses the Weser at Minden, north of the Innenstadt ( see: de: Wasserstraßenkreuz Minden, the second largest water bridge in Europe ).

Germany's Franz Beckenbauer fractured his clavicle after being fouled, but stayed on the field carrying his dislocated arm in a sling, as his side had already used their two permitted substitutions.

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.

The unit was officially established on April 17, 1973 as a part of Germany's federal police agency, the Bundesgrenzschutz ( Federal Border Guard Service, renamed Bundespolizei or Federal Police in 2005 ).

Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is Germany's second-largest city and a federated state.

Although most of Germany's African and Pacific colonies were occupied by the Empire's enemies in the first weeks of World War I, the German colonial empire officially ended with the effective date of the Treaty of Versailles on 10 January 1920 after its defeat in the war.

On August 16, 2004, at the 100th anniversary of the start of the genocide, a member of the German government, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Germany's Minister for Economic Development and Cooperation, officially apologized and expressed grief about the genocide, declaring in a speech that:

On August 16, 2004, at the 100th anniversary of the start of the Herero and Namaqua Genocide, Wieczorek-Zeul, in her capacity of Germany's Minister for Economic Development and Cooperation, officially apologized for the first time and expressed grief about the genocide, declaring, " We Germans accept our historic and moral responsibility and the guilt incurred by Germans at that time.

To challenge the threat, Crispi worked to build Italy as a great world power through increased military expenditures, advocation of expansionism, and trying to win Germany's favor even by joining the Triple Alliance which included both Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1882 which remained officially intact until 1915.

While the Soviet Union ostensibly restored political sovereignty to its satellite and allowed for a Foreign Ministry of the GDR, West Germany's sovereignty was officially curtailed by the Western powers, especially in the field of foreign policy.

This re-annexation happened in October 1939 ( officially confirmed on 24 November 1939 ) when Slovakia supported Nazi Germany's attack on Poland in September 1939.

This treaty officially demarcated the spheres of interest in East Africa and ceded Germany's rights in Zanzibar to the United Kingdom.

Netherland Dwarfs were officially recognized in Holland in 1940, just days before Germany's occupation of Holland.

Germany's pavilion was redesigned by Ernst Haiger and inaugurated in 1938 by the ruling Nazi government, a fact that has inspired artistic responses from some presenters.

Germany's manager magazin awarded its coveted Leadership Award for Global Integration to the " technology guru " and inaugurated him into their Hall of Fame, which honours personalities for their promotion of economic and social development in Germany.

* 1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99 % of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44. 5 million votes out of 45. 5 million registered voters.

The Oberkommando des Heeres ( OKH ) was Nazi Germany's High Command of the Army from 1936 to 1945.

Italy initially opposes Germany's aims on Austria but the two countries resolve their differences in 1936 in the aftermath of Italy's diplomatic isolation following the start of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Recognising his status, Hitler cultivated him, appointing him as Germany's respresentative at the funeral of King George V in January 1936.

Researcher at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics during Germany's Third Reich, known for her 1936 publication " Race and Population Policy Tools ", and her studies of heterochromia iridis ( different colored eyes ) using iris specimens from Auschwitz concentration camp victims ( supplied by her colleague, Joseph Mengele ).

Technicolor films such as Becky Sharp ( 1935 ), The Garden of Allah ( 1936 ), Nothing Sacred ( 1937 ), and A Star Is Born ( 1937 ) made him realize that Hollywood feature films presented a threat to Germany's internal market and that Hollywood's dominance of colour and musical film technology should be matched, at least if Germany was serious about engaging in a cultural war with the U. S. and Britain.

The ranks and insignia of the Ordnungspolizei were developed in 1936 after the nationalization of Germany's regular police forces.

He approved of German troops entering the demilitarised Rhineland in 1936 and encouraged Catholics in 1939 to join in Germany's defense after the Wehrmacht invaded Poland.

Technicolor films such as The Garden of Allah ( 1936 ), A Star Is Born ( 1937 ) and Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) made him realize that Hollywood feature films presented a threat to Germany's internal market and that Hollywood's dominance of color film technology should be matched, at least if Germany was serious about engaging in a cultural war with the U. S. and Britain.

Zentatsu Richard Baker ( born March 30, 1936 ), born Richard Dudley Baker, is an American Soto Zen master ( or roshi ), the founder and guiding teacher of Dharma Sangha — which consists of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone, Colorado and the Buddhistisches Studienzentrum ( Johanneshof ) in Germany's Black Forest.

Herberger succeeded him as national coach after Germany's uninspired loss to Norway at the 1936 Olympics.

When the SS-Totenkopfverbände ( SS-TV ) was formally established in 1936, the group was organized into six Wachtruppen situated at each of Germany's major concentration camps.

Earlier, Germany's January 1936 commercial contracts for the output of the Spanish and Spanish Moroccan mines had gone awry with the opposition of a newly elected government in Madrid.

* Germany's Defense Ministry announced a program to increase the size of its peacetime army to 300, 000 men in 36 divisions, with a goal of 650, 000 men by 1935 and 1. 2 million by 1936.