They initially resisted German military help, but the prolonged warfare changed their stance.

* September 17, 1948, Lehi assassination of the United Nations mediator Count Bernadotte, negotiator of the release of about 31, 000 prisoners including thousands of Jews from German concentration camps during World War II, whom Lehi accused of a pro-Arab stance during the cease-fire negotiations.

German philosopher Ernst Cassirer ( 1946 ) held that Machiavelli simply adopts the stance of a political scientist — a Galileo of politics — in distinguishing between the " facts " of political life and the " values " of moral judgment.

The journal became prominent through its critical stance on postwar violence committed on the German minority and hundreds of alleged collaborators.

His political stance during the war was highly influenced by his wife, who felt a strong connection to her German homeland.

The League again abruptly shifted its political position, ending its anti-war stance, with the German invasion of the USSR in the summer of 1941.

This difference is caused by a difference in definition: the latter stance defines a High German variety as one that has taken part in any of the first three phases of the High German consonant shift.

Needing to counter the Social Democratic Party, Bismarck softened his stance, especially with the election of the new Pope Leo XIII in 1878, and tried to justify his actions to the now numerous Catholic representatives by stating that the presence of Poles ( who are predominantly Catholic ) within German borders required that such measures be taken.

After the collapse of France in June 1940, Spain adopted a pro-Axis non-belligerency stance ( for example, it offered Spanish naval facilities to German ships ), and returned escaping Allied servicemen and fleeing resistance fighters to the Nazis, returning the favour paid by the Nazis when they had contributed forces including the Stuka dive bombers to support Franco and the Nationalists during the Civil War.

While the majority of the radical left voted for the Greater German variant, accepting the possibility, as formulated by Carl Vogt of a " holy war for western culture against the barbarism of the East ", i. e., against Poland and Hungary, whereas the liberal centre supported a more pragmatic stance.

Even before the outbreak of World War II, the community ’ s German members and its pacifist stance attracted deep suspicion locally resulting in economic boycotts.

While the text wishes to retain the critical stance of German critical idealism, it transposes that criticism into practical, material, political terms.

The German offensive into the Ardennes on 16 December 1944, forced a major redeployment of allied armies south of the Ardennes, and like the rest of the U. S. Seventh Army, the VI Corps assumed a defensive stance.

However, after the German attack the position of the Soviet government shifted completely to an anti-Nazi stance.

With the German invasion of the Soviet Union in July, 1941 the CPC ’ s stance on the war changed quickly.

Telegdi enjoyed strong support among the German population in the region due to his stance on the Helmut Oberlander case.

Irish governments have always said that allowing aircraft to use Irish soil does not constitute participation in any particular conflict and is compatible with a neutral stance, instancing the transit of German troops between Finland and Norway through neutral Swedish territory during World War II.

Ireland wanted to maintain a public stance of neutrality and refused to close the German and Japanese embassies.

These and other Persian actions prompted the British to change their stance on the ownership of the islands due to suspicion that the new Persian policy was influenced by German and Russian interests.

Diplomatic insiders were critical that such a stance was too unequivocal, and inflexible, cancelling out opportunity for political maneuvering, and morally debilitating to French and German resistance groups.

Torresola, in a double handed, isosceles shooting stance, quickly pivoted from left to right around the opening of the booth, and fired four shots from his 9 mm German Luger, semi-automatic pistol at close range at Coffelt.

As the Wisconsin Synod moved to a more conservative and confessional theological stance, the theological character of clergy from the German mission societies came into question.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.

At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.

He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.

His Italian journey was a poet's version of those perennial thrusts across the Alps of the German emperors of the Middle Ages.

A professor at the University of Constantinople, where his first course of lectures was on Nietzsche and the `` philosophy of action '', Vincent Berger becomes head of the propaganda department of the German Embassy in Turkey.

As an Alsatian before the first World War he was of course of German nationality ; ;

As was to be expected Kennedy's latest speech was greeted with enthusiasm by revenge-seeking circles in Bonn, where officials of the West German government praised it ''.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Other brothers later joined them for instruction with Oldenburg, the wigmaker, and also arithmetic was added to Bible reading, German, and Danish in the informal curriculum.

In Berlin he published his views of the chemical laws of nature in German and this was issued in French translation ( Paris, 1813 ) under the title Recherches Sur l'identite Des Forces chimiques et electriques, a work held in very high esteem by the new generation of research chemists.

The moving of millions of the German master-race, from the very heart of Junkerdom, to make room for the Polish Slavs whom they had enslaved and openly planned to exterminate was a drastic operation, but there was little doubt that it was historically justified.

The injured German veteran was a former miner, twenty-four years old, who had been wounded by shrapnel in the back of the head.

It was getting on toward 7 o'clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit.

He was almost positive it was not Assyrian nor Cassite, and imagined it must have been German or English.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

In other words, the promulgators of the murder plan made clear that physically exterminating the Jews was but an extension of the anti-Semitic measures already operating in every phase of German life, and that the new conspiracy counted on the general anti-Semitism that had made those measures effective, as a readiness for murder.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Seventeen years ago today, German scientist Willy Fiedler climbed into a makeshift cockpit installed in a V-1 rocket-bomb that was attached to the underbelly of a Heinkel bomber.

Last week, in the German city of Dusseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause.