Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

During these years the youthful conductor had contributed greatly to the high level of musical life in Germany.

One of the uniformed officers stepped in my way, demanding to know whether I had permission to enter Germany.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

The years 1812 and 1813 saw him in Germany and France again, but on this visit to Berlin he did not seek out the philosophers as he had on his first journey.

Also war-time propaganda and cooperation had `` obscured the differences between Russian and Western ideas of democracy '', and it seemed better to have them covered by verbal formulae than to imperil the military victories over Germany and Japan.

Throughout the early years of World War 2,, reports persisted that the Axis powers had used gas -- Germany in Russia, Japan in China again.

And Harry Dexter White, implicated in F.B.I. reports in Communist associations, was one of the architects of the Morgenthau Plan, which had it ever been put into full operation, would have simply handed Germany to Stalin.

England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy had all been rendered for her time and again, and between the prescribed hours of pills and tonics, she had conceived a dreamy passion by lamplight, to see all these places with her own eyes.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

The Germanics were in Germany and Scandinavia during earliest mention of them in Roman literature, long before the Romans had even conquered Italy.

Julius Caesar in Gallic Wars tells us ( 1. 51 ) that Ariovistus had gathered an army from a wide region of Germany, but especially the Harudes, Marcomanni, Triboci, Vangiones, Nemetes and Sedusii.

Selected to fill the position of lecturer at Cologne, Germany, where the Dominicans had a house, he taught for several years there, at Regensburg, Freiburg, Strasbourg and Hildesheim.

* 1983 – The German magazine Der Stern claims that the " Hitler Diaries " had been found in wreckage in East Germany ; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.

" It is highly probable that the correct information about the sulphonamide did not reach the newspapers because, since the original sulphonamide antibacterial, Prontosil, had been a discovery by the German laboratory Bayer, and as Britain was at war with Germany at the time, it was thought better to raise British morale by associating Churchill's cure with the British discovery, penicillin.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

( The Western Schism had begun in 1378 and there were two competing popes at the time, one in Avignon supported by France and Spain, and one in Rome supported by most of Italy, Germany and England.

In Florence he met Sigismund, who had just been crowned King of Germany and who had ambitions to become emperor.

He also would have had access to some Italian works in Germany, but the two visits he made to Italy had an enormous influence on him.

Germany is Armenia ’ s largest trading partner among EU member states, accounting for 7. 2 percent of trade ; this is due largely to mining exports.

Bonn is located in the very south of the largest metropolitan area in Germany.

The Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn ( University of Bonn ) is one of the largest universities in Germany.

In 1915 Germany promised to restore the boundaries according to the Treaty of San Stefano and Bulgaria, which had the largest army in the Balkans, declared war on Serbia in October the same year.

It should also be noted that the second largest of the three predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the American Lutheran Church, was a congregationalist body, with national and synod presidents before they were re-titled as bishops ( borrowing from the Lutheran churches in Germany ) in the 1980s.

Even after the 2009 general election, the CDU / CSU emerged as the largest party in Germany, yet both lost votes predominantly to the FDP.

An optimal traveling salesperson tour through Germany ’ s 15 largest cities.

Finland is the seventh largest country in Europe after Russia, France, Ukraine, Spain, Sweden, and Germany.

The largest trade flows are with Germany, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, Netherlands and China.

It has the sixth largest highway network in the world, trailing only the United States, China, Canada, Spain and Germany.

Germany is the largest national economy in Europe, the fourth-largest by nominal GDP in the world, and fifth by GDP ( PPP ) in 2008.

Germany is the world's third largest exporter with $ 1. 408 trillion exported in 2011 ( Eurozone countries are included ).

Of the world's 500 largest stock market listed companies measured by revenue, the Fortune Global 500, 37 are headquartered in Germany.

Germany is a founding member of the EU, the G8 and the G20 and was the world's largest exporter from 2003 to 2008.

The port of Hamburg is the largest sea-harbour in Germany and ranks # 2 in Europe, # 7 worldwide ( 2004 ), in total container traffic.

As a free democracy and market economy, the world's largest exporting nation and the world's third-richest economy ( nominal GDP ) ( behind the U. S. and Japan ), Germany shares the interest and institutions of a free and secure world trade.

As of February 2007, Germany had about 3, 000 NATO-led International Security Assistance Force force in Afghanistan as part of the War on Terrorism, the third largest contingent after the United States ( 14, 000 ) and the United Kingdom ( 5, 200 ).

Germany is one of the largest net contributors of the United Nations and has several development agencies working in Africa and the Middle East.

Germany has been the largest net contributor to EU budgets for decades ( in absolute terms-given Germany's comparatively large population-not per capita ) and seeks to limit the growth of these net payments in the enlarged union.

This gave him command of the largest police force in Germany.

Two states emerged: West Germany was a parliamentary democracy, a NATO member, a founding member of what since became the European Union and one of the world's largest economies, while East Germany was a totalitarian Communist dictatorship that was a satellite of Moscow.

Hamburg (;, local pronunciation ; Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg ), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany, the fifteenth largest German state, and the sixth largest city in the European Union.