After the war was over, Szpilman was visited by a violinist friend named Zygmunt Lednicki.

Lednicki had said that he did, but before the German could tell him his name, the guards at the camp had asked Lednicki to move on and sat the German back down again with his fellows.

Some historians have suggested less likely alternative locations, such as Ostrów Lednicki, or even in German Regensburg.

The place is unknown ; it could have had happened in any of the cities of the Empire ( possibly Regensburg ), but also in one of the Polish towns like Gniezno or Ostrów Lednicki.

In the last quarter of the 10th century there had been a radical expansion of the fortifications at Gniezno and Ostrów Lednicki, which may be associated with the Polish-German war, or the expectation of such.

Churches were being built at Gniezno, Poznań, Ostrów Lednicki and elsewhere.

Around 940 AD Gniezno, being an important pagan cult center, became one of the main fortresses of the early Piast rulers, along with aforementioned fortresses at Giecz, Kruszwica, Poznań, Kalisz, Łęczyca, Ostrów Lednicki, Płock, Włocławek others.

Archeological findings at cemeteries in the vicinity of the castle of Ostrów Lednicki, near Poznan, has proven the presence of Norsemen in the area around 10th century, suggesting that they played an important part the druzhina of Mieszko I, the de facto founder of the Polish state.

* Ostrów Lednicki, on Lednica Lake

An island on the lake called Ostrów Lednicki contains remains of residential and sacral stone architecture from the 10th and 11th century.

Ostrów Lednicki is a castle in Poland built in medieval times on an island on Lake Lednica.

The most important locations were Poznań ( Ostrów Tumski ), Gniezno and Ostrów Lednicki.

Ostrów Lednicki is located between Gniezno and Poznań.

In the introduction to its first edition Jerzy Waldorff informed that he wrote " as closely as he could " the story told to him by Szpilman, and that he used his brief notes in the process.

Szpilman had little to offer the officer by way of thanks, but told him that if he should ever need help, that he should ask for the pianist Szpilman of the Polish radio.

In Germany, Beatty had ruined his reputation when he told the crews of his ships that were receiving the German High Seas Fleet for its internment at Scapa Flow, " Don't forget that the enemy is a despicable beast ," and arranged the surrender of the German Fleet as a grand spectacle of humiliation.

The King and Queen were still optimistic – the Byzantine Emperor had told them that the German King Conrad had won a great victory against a Turkish army ( when in fact the German army had been massacred ), and the great troop was still eating well.

Bogart told the press that Wilder was " overbearing " and " is the kind of Prussian German with a riding crop.

Goebbels told Hitler that " spontaneous " anti-Jewish violence had already broken out in German cities, although in fact this was not true: this was a clear case of Goebbels manipulating Hitler for his own ends.

On 23 April 1939 the Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu told the British Ambassador of his nation's fears of Italian claims of the Mediterranean as Mare Nostrum and German control of the Balkans, and suggested an Anglo-Soviet-Turkish alliance as the best way of countering the Axis.

Ribbentrop told Welles that only a total German victory " could give us the peace we want ".

Alfred Rosenberg, the German Minister of the East, saw this as an intrusion into his area of authority, and told Hitler that the émigrés at the Hotel Adlon were " a nest of Allied agents ".

He told the British, after a direct question to Franco, that German troops would never be permitted to cross Spain to attack Gibraltar.

* Max & Maurice, a Juvenile History in Seven Tricks ( German / English ) App for iPad iPhone iPod, told with animated pictures and readout function

The authorities feigned agreement to the Cairo demand, ( although Egyptian Prime Minister Aziz Sedki had already told the German authorities that the Egyptians did not wish to become involved in the hostage crisis ), and at 10: 10 p. m. a bus carried the hostages and terrorists from 31 Connollystraße to two Bell UH-1 military helicopters, which were to transport them to nearby Fürstenfeldbruck, a NATO airbase.

The newspaper also wrote that the German authorities were told about that Palestinians were planning an " incident " at the Olympics three weeks before the massacre, but failed to take the necessary security measures, and these facts are missing from the official documentation of the German government.

While no concrete plans were made yet, Hitler told one of his generals in June that the victories in western Europe " finally freed his hands for his important real task: the showdown with Bolshevism ", though German generals told Hitler that occupying Western Russia would create " more of a drain than a relief for Germany's economic situation.

Hitler ignored German economic naysayers, and told Hermann Göring that " everyone on all sides was always raising economic misgivings against a threatening war with Russia.

Duncan Sandys was told to get MI5-controlled German agents such as Zig Zag and TATE to report the V-1 impacts back to Germany.

told his German contacts that he was disgusted that his message was missed and " I cannot accept excuses or negligence.

On October 23, 2001, John Ashcroft claimed that Jarrah had shared a Hamburg apartment with Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, though German authorities that same day told the Los Angeles Times that they had no evidence that any of Jarrah ’ s three apartments in Hamburg had been connected with the other hijackers.

* June 26 – According to legend, the Pied Piper of Hamelin visits the German town of Hamelin and leads 130 children to their deaths, as told in the tales of the Brothers Grimm and many others.

" The 1998 German motion picture 23 told a dramatized version of his story ; Robert Anton Wilson appeared as himself.

The book also contains a secondhand description of the killing of German prisoners of war by British troops ; although Graves had not witnessed any incidents himself and knew of no large-scale massacres, he had been told about a number of incidents in which prisoners had been killed individually or in small groups ; consequently he was prepared to believe that a proportion of Germans who surrendered never made it to prisoner-of-war camps.

The first collectors to attempt to preserve not only the plot and characters of the tale, but also the style in which they were told, were the Brothers Grimm, collecting German fairy tales ; ironically, this meant although their first edition ( 1812 & 1815 ) remains a treasure for folklorists, they rewrote the tales in later editions to make them more acceptable, which ensured their sales and the later popularity of their work.

The Brothers Grimm rejected several tales for their collection, though told orally to them by Germans, because the tales derived from Perrault, and they concluded they were thereby French and not German tales ; an oral version of Bluebeard was thus rejected, and the tale of Briar Rose, clearly related to Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, was included only because Jacob Grimm convinced his brother that the figure of Brynhildr, from much earlier Norse mythology, proved that the sleeping princess was authentically Germanic folklore.

The officer had told him that both lists must be checked.

A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.

One paratrooper who gave evidence at the Tribunal testified that they were told by an officer to expect a gunfight and " We want some kills ".

He left academia several times: serving as an officer on the frontline during World War I, where he was decorated a number of times for his courage ; teaching in schools in remote Austrian villages, where he encountered controversy for hitting children when they made mistakes in mathematics ; and working during World War II as a hospital porter in London, where he told patients not to take the drugs they were prescribed, and where no-one knew he was one of the world's most famous philosophers.

" The sprawling screenplay told the story of Union cavalry officer Major Dundee who commands a New Mexico outpost of Confederate prisoners.

In this case he is told that since he is from a non-member world ( Ferenginar ), he requires a letter of recommendation from a command-level officer before his application can be considered, with the implication that this is the standard procedure for all non-Federation applicants to Starfleet.

Significantly, a CIA officer told another CIA officer later that he had had Lumumba's body in the trunk of his car to try to find a way to dispose of it.

Diệm once told a high-ranking officer, forgetting that the man was from a Buddhist background, “ Put your Catholic officers in sensitive places.

With no successful results so far, Rear Admiral Al Calavicci ( Dean Stockwell ), Sam's long-time friend and senior officer on the program, is told by the government that they are looking to shut down the funding.

Endfield then told the 6 ' 2 " Caine that he did not look like a Cockney but like an officer, and offered him a screen test for the role of a snobbish, upper class officer after Caine assured him that he could do a posh accent.

I told my commanding officer my story.

He then hastily suggested that she talk to another officer and then told her he was going out to lunch.

Once, when he was pulled over for a $ 50 speeding ticket ( a large sum at the time ), he gave the officer a $ 100 bill ; when the officer protested that he couldn't make change for that much, Johnson told him to keep the change, as he was going to make his return trip at the same speed.

In any event, having been told he would be hanged, Griffin struck the police officer, grabbed the officers pistol, then fled.

On April 27, 1861, he told General Winfield Scott ( commander-in-chief of the army ) that if there was any resistance on the " military line " from Annapolis to Washington, Scott or " the officer in command at the point " was authorized to suspend habeas corpus if necessary.

An unknown officer told the Grenadiers to retire.

Set in mid-nineteenth century New Zealand it is a semi-fictionalized account of the story of the Māori leader Te Kooti, told from the perspective of one of his pursuers, an officer in the colonial army.

") A French officer told the soldiers that executing the African prisoners would dishonour the Aryan race and the German Army.

On April 29, 2011, a retired police officer told the Sun News Network and the Toronto Sun newspaper that in 1996, Layton had been found in a massage parlour when police, looking for underage Asian sex workers, raided the establishment.

Access to the museum appears to involve knocking at the main base's gate to ask to see the museum, at which point one is told ( in French ) to wait outside for a few minutes while the museum curator, who is an active Belgian military officer, comes to provide access and a tour in English.

Future president James Garfield, a field officer for the Army of the Cumberland, visited Thomas during the battle, carrying orders from Rosecrans to retreat ; when Thomas said he would have to stay behind to ensure the Army's safety, Garfield told Rosecrans that Thomas was " standing like a rock.

For looping the Golden Gate Bridge, for flying at low level down Market Street in San Francisco and for blowing the clothes off of an Oakland woman's clothesline, Bong was reprimanded by General George C. Kenney, commanding officer of the Fourth Air Force, who told him, " If you didn't want to fly down Market Street, I wouldn't have you in my Air Force, but you are not to do it any more and I mean what I say.