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The Germans in the south used the term Winde instead of Wende and applied it, just as the Germans in the north, to Slavs they had contact with, e. g. Polabian people from Bavaria Slavica or the Slovenes ( the names Windic March and Windisch Feistritz still bear testimony to this historical denomination ).
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Germans and south
At Yalta he thought more about the six million Germans who would have to leave, trying to find work in Germany, and Roosevelt objected to the Western Neisse River being chosen in the south, instead of the Eastern Neisse, both of which flow into the Oder.
The Allied soldiers who died driving the Germans from Tuscany are buried in cemeteries outside the city ( Americans about nine kilometres south of the city, British and Commonwealth soldiers a few kilometres east of the centre on the right bank of the Arno ).
In order to make the Germans aim short, the British used the double agents to exaggerate the number of V-1s falling in the north and west of London and not to report, when possible, those in the south and east.
Part of the " Fortitude " plan was intended to convince the Germans that a fictitious formation, First U. S. Army Group comprising 11 divisions ( 150, 000 men ) commanded by General George Patton, was stationed in the south and east of Britain.
** British forces launch Operation Goodwood, an armoured offensive aimed at driving the Germans from the high ground to the south of Caen.
* The Germans of the east move south, into the Carpathians and Black Sea area.
In the 1880s, Bechuanaland ( modern Botswana, located north of the Orange River ) became the object of a dispute between the Germans to the west, the Boers to the east, and the British Cape Colony to the south.
To the south, the Germans had somewhat more success.
The British held the city, while the Germans held the high ground of the Messines-Wytschaete ridge to the south, the lower ridges to the east and the flat ground to the north.
A larger attack by the Germans on 25 September recaptured pillboxes at the south western end of Polygon Wood at the cost of heavy casualties.
The German submarine bases on the coast remained but the objective of diverting the Germans from the French further south, while they recovered from the failure of the Nivelle Offensive in April had succeeded.
The Battle of Gumbinnen forced the Germans, in many cases via rail, to take positions south of Königsberg.
By 10 August a line had been established just south of the farm, which the Germans had turned into a fortress with deep dugouts and tunnels connecting to distant redoubts.
In 1939 East Prussia had 2. 49 million inhabitants, 85 % of them ethnic Germans, the others Poles in the south who, according to Polish estimates numbered in the interwar period around 300, 000-350, 000, and Lietuvininkai speaking Lithuanian ( Baltic ) in the northeast.
Salerno surrendered, and the large army of Germans and Normans marched to the very south of Apulia.
Western settlement began in the 1720s and 1730s with Quakers, Scots-Irish, Germans and others moving south from Pennsylvania and Maryland and by English and African slaves moving upriver from Tidewater.
At 0800 the Germans broke through Polish Border Guard units south of the Polish cavalry, which forced the Polish units in the area to start a retreat towards a secondary defence line at the river Brda ( Brahe ).
This made it difficult for the Germans to the west and the Japanese to the south of Russia to interfere with the supply operation.
Later Germans entered from the south.
The Germans had exchanged this territorial loss for land to the south of Welsh ridge.
" After the defeat of the Danes at the Battle of Bornhoved in 1227 ," explains Udolph, " the region south of the Baltic Sea, which was then inhabited by Slavs, became available for colonization by the Germans.
At that meeting, Mussolini announced that the Germans were thinking of evacuating the south.
" Germans and Jews resided south of that inner core ( south of Twelfth Street ) [...] The Greek delta formed by Harrison, Halsted, and Blue Island Streets served as a buffer to the Irish residing to the north and the Canadian – French to the northwest.
Germans and used
Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.
During World War I, the Germans used Zeppelins as bombers since they had the range and capacity to carry a useful bomb load from Germany to England.
Historian J. P Harris has pointed out that the Germans never used the word blitzkrieg.
** The Germans used the words " Ziffer " ( digit ) and " Chiffre ".
There are sometimes differences ; for example, the Germans have used " J " instead of " I " for iodine, so the character would not be confused with a Roman numeral.
This caliber gun was used by the Germans against Paris and could hit targets more than away.
The "" (" Song of Germany ", ; also known as "" or " The Song of the Germans "), has been used wholly or partially as the national anthem of Germany since 1922.
Both terms were used in East Germany with an increasing emphasis on the abbreviated name, especially since East Germany considered West Germans and West Berliners to be foreigners following the promulgation of its second constitution in 1968.
So the media controlled by the East German government emphasised the use of the official name, DDR, while West Germans, western media and statesmen may have used other names such as Middle Germany, emphasising the location of East Germany in the centre of pre-1937 Germany.
The latter term, because it was based plainly on geographic location, was sometimes also used by East Germans.
The term Westdeutschland ( West Germany ) when used by West Germans was almost always a reference to the geographic region of Western Germany but not to the area within the boundaries of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The term " Hun " from this speech was later used for the Germans by British propaganda during World War I.
The term was also used by Germans referring to Greater Germany, a state consisting of pre World War I Germany, actual Austria and the Sudetenland.
At the time of the Sudetenland crisis in 1938, Goebbels was well aware that the great majority of Germans did not want a war, and used every propaganda resource at his disposal to overcome what he called this " war psychosis ," by whipping up sympathy for the Sudeten Germans and hatred of the Czechs.
The device was developed for use as part of the Germans ' Kehl radio control transmitter system used in certain German bomber aircraft, used to guide both the rocket-boosted anti-ship missile Henschel Hs 293, and the unpowered pioneering precision-guided munition Fritz-X, against maritime and other targets.
The Nazi Germans used captured civilians who were chased across minefields to detonate the explosives.
Another scene is of the joke being used in open warfare is shown, with Tommies running through an open field amid artillery fire shouting the joke at the Germans, who die laughing in response.
However even those who complied with the often used pressure by Polish authorities were in fact treated as Germans because of their Lutheran faith and their often rudimentary knowledge of Polish.
Many Polish inhabitants were executed, arrested, expelled to the General Government or used as forced labour ; at the same time many Germans and Volksdeutsche were settled in the city.
The Pickelhaube was often used in propaganda against the Germans as in this World War I poster
The supernatural element is based on the story of Castle Wewelsburg, a 17th century castle occupied by the Germans under Heinrich Himmler's control, and used for occult rituals and practices.
This cryptographic concept has been used with Japanese Hiragana and the Germans in the later years of the First World War.
Creating elite police and military units such as the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler used the SS to form an order of men claimed to be superior in racial purity and ability to other Germans and national groups, a model for the Nazi vision of a master race.
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