As many as 500, 000 Soviet prisoners of war died or were executed in Nazi concentration camps over the course of the war ; most of them were shot or gassed.

Millions of Polish citizens perished in the course of the Nazi occupation.

Underlying the basis of the “ containment ” of Germany was the so-called “ X documents ” provided by Carl Friedrich Goerdeler over the course of the winter of 1938 – 39 which suggested that the German economy, under the strain of massive military spending was on the verge of collapse, and which led British policy-makers to the conclusion that if Hitler could be deterred from war and if his regime was “ contained ” long enough, then the German economy would collapse, and with it, presumably the Nazi regime.

In addition, Jews from as far as France, Austria and Germany were brought to Kaunas during the course of Nazi occupation and executed in the Ninth Fort. On 1943 the Germans operated special Jewish squads to open the massgraves and burn the remaining corpses.

The Nazi flag they carried, which in the course of events had been stained with blood, came to be known as the Blutfahne ( blood flag ) and was brought out for the swearing-in of new recruits in front of the Feldherrnhalle when Hitler was in power.

When Carl Orff died in Munich in 1982 at the age of 86, he had lived through four epochs in the course of his life: the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the post World War II West German Bundesrepublik.

During the 1930 – 33 period, Canaris was following a course quite parallel to the one followed by the future Nazi Party leaders although never a party member himself.

Nazi Germany also produced and used various UAV aircraft during the course of WWII.

He completed the course only in March 1946 as Czech universities were closed during the Nazi occupation, starting in November 1939.

Irving claimed that the Holocaust was not the work of Nazi leaders, but rather of " nameless criminals ", and furthermore claimed that " these men killed the Jews acted on their own impulse, their own initiative, within the general atmosphere of brutality created by the Second World War, in which of course Allied bombings played a part.

Because of their intimate knowledge of the process of Nazi mass murder, the Sonderkommando were considered Geheimnisträger — bearers of secrets — and as such, they were kept in isolation from other camp inmates, except, of course, for those about to enter the gas chambers.

In 1918, the Germans developed delayed-action fuzes that would later develop into more sophisticated versions during the 1930s, as Nazi Germany began its secret course of arms development.

" After 1939, Ciano became increasingly disenchanted with Nazi Germany and the course of World War II, although when the Italian regime embarked on the ill-advised " parallel war " alongside Germany, he went along fairly convinced, even through the terribly-devised Italian invasion of Greece and its subsequent setbacks.

During the course of their World War II attempts to occupy much of the western USSR, the government of Nazi Germany intended to establish a German-ruled civil regime in Soviet-held Central Asia.

Due to his position, Speer was able to describe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself.

" During the course of his defence, Dimitrov claimed that the organizers of the fire were senior members of the Nazi Party and frequently verbally clashed with Göring at the trial.

Over the course of his career as a judge, Hoffman presided over numerous important cases, including a tax evasion case against Tony Accardo, an obscenity case against Lenny Bruce, a deportation suit against alleged Nazi war criminal Frank Walus, and several desegregation suits.

In the course of the 1930s, Bethlehemites also joined the Nazi party, indicating the fading affinity to the Templers ' original ideals.

As a professor at Pennsylvania State University, he has been influential in the development of the Western civilization courses, and teaches a very popular course on Nazi Germany

:* Francis Parker Yockey, an influential post-war neo-Nazi ideologist-who argues ( based on Spengler's thesis ) that Western History " took the wrong course " when Germany lost World War II ; in other words, Nazi Germany ( despite all its horrors ) would eventually have paved the way for the transition to " Caesarism ".

In the course of the Holocaust, the Nazi Germans first placed the Jews in a ghetto established in the town, then exterminated them in 1942 at Belzec death camp located a few kilometers south of the town.

Again occupied in the 1939 Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II, the area was re-conquered by the Red Army in January 1945 in the course of the Vistula – Oder Offensive.

Hugenberg returned the party to a course of fundamental opposition against the Republic, but abandoned its previous monarchism in favour of more hardline nationalism and reluctant co-operation with the National Socialist German Workers Party ( NSDAP ), better known as the Nazi Party.

In the course of the Nazi-Soviet population transfers which followed this German-Soviet reconciliation, most of the German minority population of Volhynia were transferred to Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany.

After the DNVP dissolved in the course of the Nazi Gleichschaltung process, von Meibom was disempowered and replaced by the Nazi Oberpräsident of neighbouring Brandenburg, Wilhelm Kube.

He found Christian prisoners from Germany in the heart of " Tartary " ( at Talas ), and was compelled to observe the ceremony of passing between two fires, as a bringer of gifts to a dead Khan, gifts which were of course treated by the Mongols as evidence of submission.

As an example for a European country, handloading in the FR Germany requires a course, terminated in an exam, in handloading and handling of explosive propellants ; often, this is offered in combination with a course and exam in muzzle-loading and black powder-shooting.

Ribbentrop presented a proposal to Molotov where after the defeat of Britain, the Soviet Union would have India and the Middle East, Italy the Mediterranean area, Japan the British possessions in the Far East ( presuming of course that Japan would enter the war ), and Germany would take Central Africa and Britain itself.

In his relations with the Holy Roman Empire, where no more danger was to be apprehended since the fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, Martin followed the moderate course taken by Gregory X. Rudolf I of Germany sent Bishop Henry of Basel to Rome to request coronation.

According to calculations by the German newspaper Die Welt, Spain's economy had been on course to overtake countries like Germany in per capita income by 2011.

Stallion inspections are held in Neumünster, Germany, each October and approved stallions are required to complete extended performance tests, which rate the horses ' gaits, temperament, jumping ability, and suitability over a cross country course, before being given full breeding licenses.

Traditionally on Fridays, southern Germany broad variety of sweet dishes may be served as a main course, so Germknödel and Dampfnudel.

The student cohort included 4, 354 course enrolments of international students studying onshore, and 9, 475 course enrolments of students studying VU courses at offshore partner institutions across Asia, including China, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Vietnam, as well as Germany.

They were there to take a certificate course in German at the University of Greifswald required of foreigners studying in Germany who do not speak the language.

While in Germany, Shehhi enrolled in the University of Bonn after completing a German course.

Argentina, Australia, Colombia, France, Germany, Hungary India, Jordan, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Romania, South Korea, Spain, and the United Kingdom have also sent students through the course.

Another fraction led by Commander Wolfgang Wegener argued that because of superior British shipbuilding capacity that Germany could never hope to build a “ balanced fleet ” capable of winning the Entscheidungsschlacht, and that as such, the best use of German naval strength was to build a fleet of cruisers and submarines that would wage a guerre de course (“ war of the chase ”, a strategy of seeking to destroy the British Merchant Marine instead of the Navy ).

A unified Germany represented the absolute precondition for the re-establishment of sea power, which of course assumed overcoming the conditions of the Versailles treaty.

In Germany, important ducal families were the Wittelsbachs in Bavaria, the Welfs in Hannover, the ducal family of Cleves, the Wettins in Saxony ( with its Ernestine branch divided into several duchies ), the Württembergs, the Mecklenburgs and finally of course also the Habsburgs in Austria as " Archdukes ".

Groves ' class entered West Point on 15 June 1916, but the United States declaration of war on Germany in April 1917 led to the course being shortened to what was known as the War Emergency Course, which graduated early on 1 November 1918.

The SED celebrated its achievements as the " most successful party on German soil ", praised East Germany as a " politically stable and economically efficient socialist state ", and declared its intention to maintain its present policy course.

The purpose of the conspiracy came to be seen by some of them as saving the honour of themselves, their families, the army, and Germany through a grand, if futile gesture, rather than actually altering the course of history.

In 1387 however, a site was secured at Windesheim, some north of Deventer, and here was established the monastery that became the cradle of the Windesheim congregation of canons regular embracing in course of time nearly one hundred houses, and leading the way in the series of reforms undertaken during the 15th century by all the religious orders in Germany.

During this course, the students have the opportunity to visit both local and Continental schools ( France & Germany ).