His 30 September 1989 speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague was an important milestone on the road to the end of the GDR.

In the embassy courtyard thousands of East German citizens had assembled.

When he heard about the expulsion of his family to Poland, he drove to the German embassy and killed the German diplomat Eduard Ernst vom Rath.

On 13 November 2001, a German court found four persons, including a former employee of the Libyan embassy in East Berlin, guilty in connection with the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing, in which 229 people were injured and two U. S. servicemen were killed.

Der Spiegel said it obtained secret reports by authorities, embassy cables, and minutes of cabinet meetings that demonstrate the lack of professionalism of the German officials in handling the massacre.

On 24 April 1975, the West German embassy in Stockholm was seized by members of the RAF ; two of the hostages were murdered as the German government under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to give in to their demands.

* April 24 – Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over the West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members ; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish police.

( See West German embassy siege )

Several thousand of them headed straight for the West German embassy in Prague and demanded safe passage to West Germany.

False reports reached the German princes that the hostilities against the Huguenots in France had ceased and no embassy was sent to the court of France.

Meanwhile, a French secret agent steals a letter addressed to a military officer in the German embassy.

When the French intelligence found information about someone giving the German embassy military secrets, anti-semitism seems to have caused senior officers to suspect Dreyfus, though there was no direct evidence of any wrongdoing.

In April 1941, Hans Thomsen, a diplomat at the German embassy in Washington, D. C., sent a message to Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, informing him that " an absolutely reliable source " had told Thomsen that the Americans had broken the Japanese diplomatic cipher ( that is, Purple ).

During World War II, the Japanese embassy in Nazi Germany was kept well-informed on German military affairs.

By February 5, 1938, the International Committee had forwarded to the Japanese embassy a total of 450 cases of murder, rape, and general disorder by Japanese soldiers that had been reported after the American, British and German diplomats had returned to their embassies.

In 1894, the French Army's counter-intelligence section, led by Lt. Col. Sandherr, became aware that new artillery information was being passed to the German embassy in Paris by a highly placed spy likely to be posted in the French General Staff.

: The German embassy in Argentina estimates that 660, 000 Argentines, or 1. 5 % of the total population, are descendants of Germans who emigrated directly from Germany ( It means that it doesn't includes other ethnic Germans who emigrated from Austria, Switzerland, Russia / USSR, etc .).

On the morning of Monday, November 7, he purchased a revolver and a box of bullets, then went to the German embassy and asked to see an embassy official.

** Extensive bugging of the West German embassy in Moscow by the KGB was discovered by German engineer Horst Schwirkmann, leading to an attack on Schwirkmann in 1964.

Russian writer Vadim Erlikman, for example, makes the following estimates: executions, 1. 5 million ; gulags, 5 million ; deportations, 1. 7 million out of 7. 5 million deported ; and POWs and German civilians, 1 milliona total of about 9 million victims of repression.

According to German government estimates, " 65, 000 people died in those Soviet-run camps or in transportation to them.

West German estimates were much higher: in 1966 the West German Ministry for Inter-German Affairs claimed that 383 people died in the uprising, including 116 " functionaries of the SED regime ", with an additional 106 executed under martial law or later condemned to death, while 1, 838 were injured and 5, 100 arrested, 1, 200 of these later being sentenced to a total of 6, 000 years in penal camps.

Total dead 2, 050, 89-Other estimates of German casualties are as follows: By UK War Office in 1922: Killed 1, 808, 545 exclusive of 14, 000 African conscript deaths during the war By US War Dept in 1924: 1, 773, 700 killed and died.

In terms of human costs, the Thirty Years ' wars many economic, social, and population dislocations caused by the hardline methods adopted by Ferdinand's strict counter-reformation measures and almost continual employment of mercenary field armies contributed significantly to the loss of life and tragic depopulation of all the German states, during a war which some estimates put the civilian loss of life as high as fifty-percent overall.

Various casualty figures have been published, sometimes with much acrimony, although the highest estimates for British and German casualties appear to be discredited.

According to German estimates in the 1930s, about 30 million Volksdeutsche and Auslandsdeutsche ( German citizens residing abroad, see McKale 1977: The Swastika Outside Germany, p. 4 ) were living outside the Reich.

Peter Aurich ( a pseudonym of the German journalist Peter Nasarski ) put the number of German civilian deaths in Bydgoszcz at 366, while Hugo Rasmus estimates it as at least 415.

But according to rough estimates, 5, 000 German children and young people stayed in Lithuania in 1948.

No official figures were available, since the Colombian government dropped any references to race in the census after 1918, but according to rough estimates in the late 1980s, mestizos ( white and native American mix ) constituted approximately 50 % of the population, whites ( predominantly Spanish origin, Italian, German, French, etc.

French ’ s paper criticised GHQ estimates of German casualties compared to War Office figures, pointed out that there was no firm evidence that German losses were commensurate with Allied, and that any further Western Front Offensive “ has become more of a “ gamble ” than anything else we have undertaken ” and that any future plans and forecasts by Haig should be most carefully examined.

Earlier West German estimates of the number of people killed were considerably higher: according to the West German Ministry for Inter-German affairs in 1966, 513 people ( including 116 " functionaries of the SED regime ") were killed in the uprising, 106 people were executed under martial law or later condemned to death, 1, 838 were injured, and 5, 100 were arrested ( 1, 200 of these were later sentenced to an average of 5 years in penal camps ).

Reliable estimates including German, Soviet, and local records indicate that upwards of 1. 6 million, perhaps as many as 2 million, Jews were murdered in this fashion.

According to recent ( 2009 ) estimates by IPN, between 5. 62 million and 5. 82 million Polish citizens ( including Polish Jews ) died as a result of the German occupation.

Swarzędz ( German: Schwersenz ) is a town ( miasto ) in central Poland of 29, 766 inhabitants and a mixed urban-rural commune ( gmina miejsko-wiejska ) of 40, 166 inhabitants ( 2006 estimates ).

Mateusz Siuchniński gives the percentage of Poles in 1900 as 35. 7 % but warns that the numbers come from lowered German estimates.

However, despite the additional cover, significant casualties were sustained in no-man's land during the assault, with estimates of 50 % of casualties occurring there before the first German trench had been captured.

* List of all constellations in 15 languages ( German WP, with interwiki-links to other languages )

By 1700, it had been reprinted 15 times in Italian, and was translated in Dutch, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish.

Approximately 15, 000 persons in Denmark belong to a German minority traditionally referred to as hjemmetyskere meaning " domestic Germans " in Danish, and as Nordschleswiger in German.

* 1941 – Holocaust: German troops murder over 15, 000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Eusebius Amort ( November 15, 1692 – February 5, 1775 ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian.

Emil Kraepelin ( 15 February 1856, Neustrelitz – 7 October 1926, Munich ) was a German psychiatrist.

The percentage of Low Saxon and High German loanwords can be estimated at 22 – 25 percent, with Low Saxon making up about 15 percent.

The 08 / 15 film trilogy of 1954 – 55 concerns a sensitive young German soldier who rather be playing the piano who fights on the Eastern Front without understanding why, and no mention is made of genocidal aspects of Germany's war in East.

The last of the 08 / 15 films ends with Germany occupied by a gang of American soldiers portrayed as bubble-gum chewing, slack-jawed morons and uncultured louts, totally inferior in every respect to the heroic German soldiers shown in the 08 / 15 films.

They received considerable support from Minister of Defense Gustav Noske, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, who used them to crush the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 and the Marxist Spartacist League and arrest Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, who were killed on 15 January 1919.

A general offensive by the Whites ( whose Guards ' total force was about the same as that of the Red Guards ) began on 15 March 1918, bolstered by the intervention of the 10, 000-strong Baltic Sea Division and the 3, 000-strong Detachment Brandenstein of the German army.

As the German army seized Helsinki, the White Army shifted its military focus to Viipuri, taking it on 29 April 1918 with a major attack of 18, 500 men, against 15, 000 Red troopers.

That afternoon and evening, tanks from the German 15.

At about 18: 15, 2nd Armoured Brigade engaged the German armour and halted the Axis eastward advance.

" Fichte's Original Insight " Contemporary German Philosophy 1 ( 1982 ) 15 – 52.

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To ensure execution of the treaty's terms, Allied troops would occupy the left ( German ) bank of the Rhine for a period of 5 – 15 years.

Johannes Kepler (; December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630 ) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer.

On the night of 14 – 15 March 1939, Ribbentrop played a key role in the German annexation of the Czech part of Czecho-Slovakia by bullying the Czechoslovak President Hácha into transforming his country into a German protectorate at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.

On 15 March 1939, German troops occupied the Czech area of Czecho-Slovakia, which then became the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

In 1928, German industry under Krupp leadership put down a general strike, locking out 250, 000 workers, and encouraging the government to cut wages 15 %.

Konrad Emil Bloch ForMemRS ( b. January 21, 1912 – October 15, 2000 ) was a German American biochemist.