:" Hochdeutsch " or " High German " is also used in the sense of Standard German.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

When it came to time for Ribbentrop to present the German declaration of war on 22 June 1941 to the Soviet Ambassador, General Vladimir Dekanozov, Paul Schmidt described the scene :" It is just before four on the morning of Sunday, 22 June 1941 in the office of the Foreign Minister.

On 10 July 1941 Ribbentrop ordered General Eugen Ott, the German Ambassador to Japan to :" Go on with your efforts to bring about the earliest possible participation of Japan in the war against Russia ... The natural goal must be, as before, to bring about the meeting of Germany and Japan on the Trans-Siberian Railroad before winter sets in.

:" Fifty years later, the popular Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi made her story into a drama of a “ tigerish woman ” of “ unrelenting pride .” In a combined effort by two of the greatest literary talents of the era, Friedrich von Schiller translated the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe directed it on the stage in Weimar in 1802.

:" Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist — battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation — and when we see what amount of change 2000 years has been able to produce in the languages of Greece & Italy or 1000 in those of Germany France & Spain we naturally begin to ask how long a period must have lapsed since the Chinese, the Hebrew, the Delaware & the Malesass had a point in common with the German & Italian & each other — Time!

:" all collections of works of art related or dedicated to the perpetuation of German militarism or Nazism will be closed permanently and taken into custody.

The American historian Gerhard Weinberg wrote about Raeder's role in invading Norway that :" Inside the German government during the war, Raeder always called attention to his own role in pushing the invasion of Norway ; after the war, he invariably blamed it on the British.

:" By non-phoneticians any mode of pronunciation which is harsh or grating in effect is often supposed to be ' guttural '; with this notion the designation is popularly applied by Englishmen to the German ch, but not to k or g, though technically it belongs equally to them.

:" If mother Prague, the pearl of the Western Slav world, is to be lost in a German sea, what awaits my dear homeland, Slovakia, which looks to Prague for spiritual nourishment?

:" Hyperion " can also refer to the epistolary novel Hyperion by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin.

:" The fusing process goes on as in a blast-furnace ; one generation, a single year even -- transforms the English, the German, the Irish emigrant into an American.

:" No German ecclesiastic of his age appears to have won for himself so unusual a repute as a theologian and to have held so important a position, as the trusted counsellor of the leading German cardinal at the Vatican Council.

:" I pledge to serve the Federal Republic of Germany loyally and to defend the right and the freedom of the German people bravely.

:" One suspects they yearn for the day when they can return to their normal publishing routine – that gentlemanly pastiche of philosophy, art, classical music, photography, German and Russian history, East European politics, literary fiction – unencumbered by political duties of a confrontational or oppositional nature.

:" The achievement of the German regime in Samoa was not only that it inaugurated a central government and established peace and order.

:" The German Democratic Republic stands unalterably by its duty to do everything against racism, Nazism, anti-Semitism, and hatred among peoples, so that, in the future, war and fascism will never again start from German soil, but only peace and understanding among people.

) contains German versions of songs like " Zeven Dagen Lang " ( de :" Sieben Tage Lang " en :" Seven Days On End ") and Ali.

* to the German region of Swabia ( German :" Schwaben "); or

:" In the choice of pieces ," he explained, " I have not been inattentive to the political interests of America.

:" The point really about all this from our perspective has been that the critical role we should play is to assist the Zimbabweans to find each other, really to agree among themselves about the political, economic, social, other solutions that their country needs.

:" The basic problem stemmed from the fact that the BPP had no systematic approach to political education.

:" In the West, if Andropov is remembered at all, it is for his brutal suppression of political dissidence at home and for his role in planning the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.

:" War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of policy carried out by other means.

:" I would not myself indulge in such official praise for heterosexual monogamy, because I think it no business of the courts ( as opposed to the political branches ) to take sides in this culture war.

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:" There is no evidence of a United Monarchy, no evidence of a capital in Jerusalem or of any coherent, unified political force that dominated western Palestine, let alone an empire of the size the legends describe.

:" The most important principles of humanitarian action are humanity, which posits the conviction that all people have equal dignity by virtue of their membership in humanity, impartiality, which directs that assistance is provided based solely on need, without discrimination among recipients, neutrality, which stipulates that humanitarian organizations must refrain from taking part in hostilities or taking actions that advantage one side of the conflict over another, and independence, which is necessary to ensure that humanitarian action only serves the interests of war victims, and not political, religious, or other agendas.

:" Francis Schaeffer is widely credited with providing the impetus for Protestant evangelical political action against abortion.

:" But Brown and Whitman didn ’ t swing at the questions, instead choosing to stick to a game of political beanball — trading jabs on Whitman ’ s housekeeper, a Brown aide ’ s “ whore ” remark and even verbal miscues.

:" Whatever the case ", continued Tocqueville, " we may say in a general manner that all political freedoms must be suspended in Algeria.

:" that originally there were four different clubs, based on the basic political orientations [...] That in regard to the most important major questions, for example about Austria's participation and about the election of emperors, the usual club-based divisions could be abandoned temporarily to create larger overall groups, as the United Left, the Greater Germans in Hotel Schröder, the Imperials in Hotel Weidenbusch.

:" These party meetings were indeed an important part of political life in Frankfurt, significant for positive, but clearly also for negative, results.

Reflecting Schleicher ′ s reputation for deviousness and being untrustworthy, Hermann Göring joked in 1932 :" Any Chancellor who has Herr von Schleicher on his side must expect sooner or later to be sunk by the Schleicher torpedo, there was a joke current in political circles -" General von Schleicher ought really to have been an Admiral for his military genius lies in shooting under water at his political friends "".

:" A counter-revolutionary action is any action aimed at overthrowing, undermining or weakening of the power of workers ' and peasants ' Soviets ... and governments of the USSR and Soviet and autonomous republics, or at the undermining or weakening of the external security of the USSR and main economical, political and national achievements of the proletarial revolution "

:" Every political issue claiming the attention of a world public has its ' experts "-news managers, anchor men, ax grinders, and anglers.

Fest wrote that :" Standing on the one side, to simplify, are those who want to preserve Hitler and National Socialism as a kind of anti-myth that can be used for political intentions-the theory of a conspiracy on the part of the political right, to which Nolte, Stürmer, and Hillgruber are linked.

:" young lovers ( 1156b2 ), lifelong friends ( 1156b12 ), cities with one another ( 1157a26 ), political or business contacts ( 1158a28 ), parents and children ( 1158b20 ), fellow-voyagers and fellow-soldiers ( 1159b28 ), members of the same religious society ( 1160a19 ), or of the same tribe ( 1161b14 ), a cobbler and the person who buys from him ( 1163b35 ).

:" although purportedly a political party, is in fact an instrumentality of a conspiracy ... prescribed for it by the foreign leaders ... to carry into action slavishly the assignments given ... acknowledges no constitutional or statutory limitations ... its dedication to the proposition that the present constitutional Government of the United States ultimately must be brought to ruin by any available means, including resort to force and violence ... as the agency of a hostile foreign power renders its existence a clear present and continuing danger.

The Latest Decalogue's couplet on murder, " Thou shalt not kill ; but need ' st not strive Officiously to keep alive :" is often quoted in debates on medical ethics in the sense that it is not right to struggle to keep terminally ill people alive, especially if they are suffering.

:" When I asked him why he had done this, the officer answered that this was ' his revenge for the murder of his best friends in the Haifa Oil Refinery massacre.

:" Gandhi does not want to commit murder, and does not want to modify himself to commit murder.

:" Charles Peace wanted for murder on the night of the 29th inst.

:" In the midst of running for the Michigan Supreme Court, Weiss made a dramatic statement in which he asserted that ' murder may have been less harmful ' than William's acts.

Fest argued against the " singularity " of the Holocaust under the grounds that :" The gas chambers with which the executors of the annihilation of the Jews went to work without a doubt signal a particularly repulsive form of mass murder, and they have justifiably become a symbol for the technicized barbarism of the Hitler regime.

:" Rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder ; electric shock (' the Bell Telephone Hour ') rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue ; the ' water treatment '; the ' airplane ' in which the prisoner's arms were tied behind the back, and the rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten ; beatings with rubber hoses and whips ; the use of police dogs to maul prisoners.

:" It is cold-blooded murder.

Iman's father, Samir al-Hams, responded to the verdict by saying that from the outset there was no intention to hold the officer accountable :" They did not charge him with Iman's murder, only with small offences, and now they say he is innocent of those even though he shot my daughter so many times ...

:" The report we hand in contains a double outrage: that of massive murder, disappearance and torture ; and that of indolence, incompetence and indifference of those who could have stopped this humanitarian catastrophe but didn't.

Katznelson also spoke of Jewish self-hatred, saying :" Is there another People on Earth so emotionally twisted that they consider everything their nation does despicable and hateful, while every murder, rape, robbery committed by their enemies fill their hearts with admiration and awe?

Mommsen wrote about Nolte's claims of a " causal nexus " between the Gulag Archipelago and the Nazi death camps :" In light of these questions, which thinking people encountered repeatedly, it seems superficial and insincere to narrow the discussion to the question brought up by Ernst Nolte about the extent of the similarities between the National-Socialist mass murder and the Gulag Archipelago ”.

Said the Time Out film guide :" Baker's the big lumpy cop who won't take no and another assignment for an answer when he's told to lay off the gun-happy lawyer ( Saxon ) he suspects of cold-blooded murder, and to concentrate on the businessman with the coke connection ( Balsam ).

:" This simple division of the Cherokees formed the grand work by which marriages were regulated, and murder punished.