The Germans had massed the bulk of their armoured force in Panzer Group von Kleist, which attacked through the comparatively unguarded sector of the Ardennes and achieved a breakthrough at the Battle of Sedan with air support.

The tripartite military talks, started in mid-August, hit a sticking point regarding passage of Soviet troops through Poland if Germans attacked, and the parties waited as British and French officials overseas pressured Polish officials to agree to such terms.

For the first year of hostilities the Germans were strong enough to carry the war into their neighbours ' territories and repeatedly attacked the railway and other points in British East Africa.

Leaderless, panicking, and attacked on all sides by Turks, many Germans deserted, were killed, or even committed suicide.

The Germans attacked with nearly 30 divisions ; including the 1st SS, 2nd SS, and the 12th SS Panzer Divisions.

Between 26 September and 3 October the Germans attacked at least 24 times.

Postponing Operation Barbarossa, the Germans simultaneously attacked Yugoslavia and Greece.

Had they attacked earlier they would have faced only a dozen Germans.

The ongoing local rebellions escalated in 1904 into the Herero and Namaqua Wars when the Herero attacked remote farms on the countryside, killing approximately 150 Germans.

The Germans occupying the small salient on ridge soon found themselves being attacked along their flanks by continuously reinforced Canadian Corps troops.

The Germans attacked the poorly equipped French units twice and were driven back.

However, before these offensives could begin, the Germans attacked first, engaging the Allies at the Battle of Verdun.

The first phase lasted until the Germans attacked and won a stunningly fast victory in June 1940.

" He participated in the engagement at Cambrai, where, suddenly attacked by Germans while making railroad repairs, the engineers fought with picks and shovels.

Nazi propaganda took advantage of this, suggesting that the Poles attacked intentionally, believing that the Germans still had the dummy tanks the Versailles treaty restrictions had permitted them.

The Austrian Germans allegedly attacked the police inspector, Ivan Senekovič, and then pressed towards the Slovenian soldiers in front of the city hall.

Fearing the Germans would destroy Paris if attacked by a frontal assault, General Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered his forces to cease their advance and reconnoitre the situation.

Allied troops under the command of Douglas Haig, predominantly Rawlinson's British 4th Army ( consisting of the Australian Corps under Monash and the Canadian Corps under Arthur Currie, and the British III Corps ) attacked the Germans.

In the 20th century, the Liege Province, which borders Germany was the first to be attacked in two world wars by the Germans.

Despite the Germans ' best efforts, the line would remain roughly unchanged for the next five days, although Germans of the Hermann Göring NCO School attacked the Border positions on the west side near the Rhine, forcing them to abandon strategically important high ground overlooking Oosterbeek.

A few days later U. S. forces attacked from the north and south of the bulge, forcing the Germans first to halt and then to retreat.

The Germans attacked on 26 May.

In May 1941 served as the escort to HMS Ark Royal during the sinking of the battleship Bismarck, and on 31 December 1942, Sheffield and Jamaica jointly attacked and drove off the pocket battleship Lützow ( sister ship to the Graf Spee ), and the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, at the Battle of the Barents Sea, when the Germans attempted to intercept a large convoy to Murmansk.

From six to nine million additional Germans would be evicted, though most would have fled, and Poland would receive far more from Germany than the poor territories, including the great Pripet Marshes, which she lost to Russia.

In France, Italy and Russia, where large budgets continued to allow major development, both monoplanes and all metal structures were common by the end of the 1920s however those countries overspent themselves and were overtaken in the ' 30s by those powers that hadn't been spending heavily, namely the British, the Americans and the Germans.

In December 1917 the Bolsheviks were themselves under intense pressure from the Germans to conclude peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, and Russia Bolshevism was in deep crisis, with a demoralized army and the fate of the October Revolution in doubt.

Finnish nationalists leaning on Germanism had been seeking German aid in freeing Finland from Russian hegemony since Autumn 1917, but the Germans did not want to prejudice their armistice and peace negotiations with Russia because of the pressure they were facing at the Western front.

After Napoleon's fiasco in Russia in 1812, including the deaths of many Germans in his invasion army, Prussia joined with Russia.

The provinces east of the Oder and Neisse rivers ( the Oder-Neisse line ) were transferred to Poland, Lithuania, and Russia ( Kaliningrad oblast ); the 6. 7 million Germans living in Poland and the 2. 5 million in Czechoslovakia were forced to move west, although most had already left when the war ended.

It is estimated that in the aftermath of World War II between 13 and 16 million ethnic Germans were expelled from the territories of Eastern Germany ( present-day part of Poland ), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia ( mostly from the Vojvodina region ), the Kaliningrad Oblast ( formerly northern part of East Prussia ) area of Russia, Lithuania, Romania and other East European countries.

An 18th century genealogy book claimed that he was the son of the Prussian prince Glanda Kambila, who came to Russia in the second half of the 13th century, fleeing the invading Germans.

The Left Communist Bolsheviks likely believed that the Germans would seize the opportunity to make a separate peace with Russia ( even on moderate terms ) so that they would have an opportunity to defeat France and Great Britain before the Americans arrived, even if this meant they would have to settle for less generous terms.

* Germans From Russia Heritage Society

* American Historical Society of Germans from Russia

He was sixth of the eight children of Ludwig and Christiana ( Schwahn ) Welk, ethnic Germans who emigrated to America in 1892 from Selz, Kutschurgan District, in the German-speaking area north of Odessa ( now Odessa, Ukraine, but then in southwestern Russia ).

The part of North Dakota where he lived had been settled largely by Germans from Russia ; even his teachers spoke English as a second language.

Since the fall of Communism in 1991, some German groups have tried to help settle the Volga Germans from eastern parts of Russia in the Kaliningrad Oblast.

Over the last thousand years, Germans emigrated from traditional German lands in Central Europe and settled further east in Russia, present-day Romania and other countries.

Between 1710 and 1795, following Russia's success in the Great Northern War and the Partitions of Poland, the areas inhabited by Baltic Germans became Baltic governorates of Imperial Russia.

Owing to their German heritage, during World War I Baltic Germans were sometimes seen as the enemy by Russians, yet also as traitors by the German Empire if they remained loyal to Russia.

During the time of the Russian civil war from 1917 to 1921, many young Baltic Germans signed voluntarily into the newly formed Estonian and Latvian armies to help secure the independence of these countries from Russia.

* History of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union

Russia had recently signed a peace treaty with the Germans, and did not want to upset them by letting them know the women were dead, so they told them they had been moved to a safer location.

: 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 .).

Starting in 1866 the coast was actively colonized by Russians, Armenians, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Greeks, Estonians, Germans, Moldavians, Georgians and other people from inner Russia.