This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

He called the Pennsylvania Germans " Palatine Boors " who could never acquire the " Complexion " of the English settlers and to " Blacks and Tawneys " as weakening the social structure of the colonies.

Historian J. P Harris has pointed out that the Germans never used the word blitzkrieg.

According to recent figures, of an estimated four million POWs taken by the Soviets, including Germans, Japanese, Hungarians, Romanians and others, some 580, 000 never returned, presumably victims of privation or the Gulags.

Zamir has stated repeatedly in interviews over the years that he was never consulted by the Germans at any time during the rescue attempt and that he thought that his presence actually made the Germans uncomfortable.

Despite these successes, the Germans were pushed back from Moscow and could never again mount a simultaneous offensive along the entire strategic Soviet – German front.

The Germans, through the use of huge artillery bombardments, flamethrowers and infiltration tactics were able to capture both Vaux and Douaumont, but were never able to take the city, and eventually lost most of their gains.

Perhaps as a result of this disinformation, the Germans never corrected their aim, with the end result that most bombs landed in the South London suburbs or the Kent countryside, doing far less damage than they otherwise would have done.

Maximilian I ( 22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519 ), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans ( also known as King of the Germans ) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky.

The book also contains a secondhand description of the killing of German prisoners of war by British troops ; although Graves had not witnessed any incidents himself and knew of no large-scale massacres, he had been told about a number of incidents in which prisoners had been killed individually or in small groups ; consequently he was prepared to believe that a proportion of Germans who surrendered never made it to prisoner-of-war camps.

However, the Germans never came close to their objective, held up by the 1st, 2nd, 9th, and 99th Infantry Divisions who refused to yield ground in the battle for Elsenborn Ridge.

" However, she did distrust Germans ; she told Woodrow Wyatt, " Never trust them, never trust them.

On his return to Britain he wrote an article for The Daily Express of 17 September in which he praised Hitler and said " The Germans have definitely made up their minds never to quarrel with us again ".

The letter never reached its destination, however, as the son-in-law was killed by the Germans en route.

This was vital to the success of the Allied plan, since it forced the Germans to keep most of their reserves bottled up waiting for an attack on Calais that never came, thereby allowing the Allies to maintain and build upon their marginal foothold in Normandy.

Later, with Estonia and Latvia falling under Soviet rule after 1944, the Baltic Germans never came to live in the Baltics again.

In 1848 during events of Spring of Nations when Polish issue was raised Arndt declared that " tribes " of Slavs and Wends " have never done or been able to do anything lasting with respect to state, science, or art " and concluded, " At the outset I assert with world history that pronounces judgment: the Poles and the whole Slavonic tribe are inferior to Germans.

Rafe attacks Danny's father calling him a " dirty German "; Danny's father counters by explaining that he fought the Germans in World War I and wishes that they never witness the horrors of war.

General Harper now shows Mackaye the badge and personal effects of Decker which had been confiscated, when Mackaye told them they were never returned by the Germans.

He is sometimes known as Conrad V of the Holy Roman Empire or Conrad V of Germany, though he never succeeded his father in Germany ( although he was recognized as king of the Germans, Sicily, and Jerusalem by German supporters of the Hohenstaufens in 1254 ).

But the village was totally destroyed by the Germans in 1944 and it never recovered.

After the war this was a major disadvantage for Germans with this qualification since it was, unlike its WWI counterpart, generally not recognised in West Germany and never recognised in East Germany.

The Danes, in spite of every discouragement, never ceased to strive for the preservation and extension of their national traditions and language ; the Germans were equally bent on effectually absorbing these recalcitrant Teutons into the general life of the German empire ; and to this end the uncertain status of the Danish optants was a useful means.

The Germans referred to a Schwerpunkt ( focal point and also known as Schwerpunktprinzip or concentration principle ) in the planning of operations ; it was a center of gravity or point of maximum effort, where a decisive action could be achieved.

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 Australians then achieved a series of victories against the Germans at Chignes, Mont St Quentin, Peronne and Hargicourt.

By late 1915 the Germans had achieved air superiority, making Allied access to vital intelligence derived from continual aerial reconnaissance more dangerous to acquire.

Note that this was not the case of the Maginot Line, designed to force the Germans to pass through Belgium and that has fully achieved its political and strategic role.

However the White victory was achieved with assistance from the Germans.

This tit-for-tat shackling continued until the Swiss achieved agreement with the Canadians to desist on December 12, and with the Germans some time later after they received further assurances from the British.

The Germans achieved temporary surprise, as the Ultra documents had arrived at U. S. First Army Headquarters too late to alert the troops to the immediate assault.

Many Germans in the late 19th century viewed colonial acquisitions as a true indication of having achieved nationhood.

Like the main Maginot Line did with the Germans, the Alpine Line achieved the goal of preventing the Italians from advancing through the protected areas.

As this end was achieved by undeviating servility to Napoleon, and the most cynical disregard of the rights of Bavaria's German neighbors, Montgelas became the type of an unpatriotic politician in the eyes of all Germans who revolted against the supremacy of France.

By late 1915 the Germans had achieved air superiority, making Allied access to vital intelligence derived from continual aerial reconnaissance more dangerous to acquire.

UNHCR has achieved some success in launching campaigns to prevent and reduce statelessness among formerly deported peoples in Crimea, Ukraine ( Armenians, Crimean Tatars, Germans, and Greeks who were deported en masse at the close of World War II ).

Most of these objectives, including Feuchy village, had been achieved by the evening of 10 April though the Germans were still in control of large sections of the trenches between Wancourt and Feuchy, particularly in the area of the heavily fortified village of Neuville-Vitasse.

Quickly, the Germans achieved considerable success against Soviet defensive positions.

The crossing of the Rhine was achieved at four points: One was an opportunity taken by U. S. forces when the Germans failed to blow up the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, one crossing was a hasty assault, and two crossings were planned.

Striking at 5: 30 a. m. on Saturday, 16 December, the Germans achieved almost total surprise in breaking through the allied lines, beginning what is commonly called the Battle of the Bulge.

The Red Army achieved massive superiority against the Germans by limiting their attacks to a front of only 26 kilometres.

For these losses, however, the engagement at Le Cateau had achieved its objective, and enabled the British Expeditionary Force to retreat unmolested by the Germans for a further five days.