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Germans and recognising
The Germans, recognising their untenable position, withdrew from the Marne to the north .| image3 = Map of the advance at the battle of Amiens
The Germans, recognising their untenable position, withdrew from the Marne towards the north, for which victory Foch was promoted Marshal of France.

Germans and critical
These ideas lead Arndt to produce a harshly critical anti-French propaganda during the Napoleonic occupation of the German states whereby he incited the Germans to hate the French people:
His portrayal of Jews as subhuman and evil is widely considered to have played a critical role in the dehumanization and marginalization of the Jewish minority in the eyes of common Germans — creating the necessary conditions for the later perpetration of the Holocaust.
They were to operate in the southeast Netherlands, so that British and Canadian forces and the 104th Infantry Division could clear the Germans from the Scheldt Estuary in the southwest Netherlands and open the shipping lanes to the critical port of Antwerp, to allow Allied ships to bring supplies from Britain.
The Division was transferred to U. S. First Army and ordered to St. Vith, Belgium, a critical road and rail center needed by the Germans to supply their offensive.
This gave the Germans critical time to concentrate forces against him.
He did publish The Red Army Moves by Geoffrey Cox on the Winter War which was critical of the Soviet attack on Finland, but also foresaw that the Red Army would defeat the Germans.
This convoy proved critical to saving Malta, as it supplies proved essential when the Germans returned in December.
This was a critical position as the Germans were vigorously attacking the coastal convoys running down the English Channel and up and down the east coast from Scotland to the northeast of England down to London.
Furthermore as situation developed critical in mid June 1944 during the initial successes of the Soviet Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Operation Germans placed the forces prepared for the operation into full readiness.
The Germans were convinced that air raids would result in further serious " hits ", and they decided to abandon the plant and move remaining stocks and critical components to Germany in 1944.
With the German invasion of Norway, the question of control of the Norwegian merchant fleet became critical, and the Norwegian government, the British government and the Germans were the main contenders.
In addition to blaming the Germans for the rise of Bolshevism, Kramář was critical of Germany for having initiated the First World War and believed that Germany had misused its close relations with Austria-Hungary for its own ends.
In an article entitled " Neither Denial nor Forgetfulness Will Free Us " first published in the Frankfurter Rundschau on December 1, 1986, Mommsen argued that Historikerstreit was a result of the failures of modern society Mommsen argued that in the prosperous 1950s-60s, most Germans were happy to forget about their recent past, and looked forward to a brighter future Starting with the oil shock of the early 1970s and the rise of fundamentalist Islam in the late 1970s, Mommsen argued that the idea of a progressively better future was discredited, leading to a pessimistic public mood, and the a renewed interest in history This had occurred in tandem in a period when German historians had started to make a more critical examination of their recent past As a result at the precise mood when public demanded a past that could make them feel good about being Germans, German historians came under attack for not writing the sort of history the public wanted Mommsen argued that the work of those like Ernst Nolte was intended to provide the sort of history that would allow Germans feel good about being Germans by engaging in “… an explanatory strategy that … will be seen as a justification of National Socialist crimes by all those who are still under the influence of the extreme anti-Soviet propaganda of National Socialism " Mommsen charged that Ernst Nolte was attempting to egregiously whitewash the German past.

Germans and importance
The importance of naval bases in the Canaries and Morocco to Germany is shown by the fact that the Germans passed up their best chance of bringing Spain into the war rather than give up their demands for bases in and off north-west Africa, which were intended to support the Kriegsmarine in a future war with the United States.
During this meeting, Papagos laid stress on the importance of a joint Greco-Yugoslavian offensive against the Italians as soon as the Germans launched their offensive against Yugoslavia and Greece.
The Germans had on this front only relatively few obsolete French Hotchkiss H35 and Somua S35 tanks that they had acquired during occupation, consequently the M3's inferior tank-to-tank capabilities were of limited importance.
However, the lack of impartiality by both the anti-communist West Germans and the pro-communist East Germans, who raised Werner Seelenbinder to the status of an icon, means that today his historical importance is rather controversial.
The importance of Hammerfest to the Germans increased dramatically after their invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Such was the importance attached the area by the Germans that their troops kept fighting in La Baule and Saint-Nazaire for nine months longer than in the rest of the department, eventually surrendering on May 11, 1945 ( 3 days after the German unconditional surrender ), making this one of the last liberated parts of France.
Despite the ultimate loss of Polish army, the Battle of the Bzura river had major strategic importance: it made Germans change their scheme and regroup and also delayed the capitulation of Warsaw.
The Germans were aware of the importance of the Scheldt, and hastily organized an amalgam of veteran parachute units and low grade infantry units.
Although he had no tanks or artillery to support him, he immediately surmised the importance of holding the ridge as the only Allied force between the Germans and their unhindered exploitation of the exposed left flank of the 45th Division and the thinly held right flank of the 1st Division.
Also, of importance was the idea of a Greater Germany, supporters hoped to unite the German people under one nation state, which included all territories where Germans lived, disregarding the fact of them being minority in this territory.
Norway had particular strategic importance to the Germans during the Battle of the Atlantic.
The Germans realised this importance and the city and base in particular was heavily bombed.
The route gained significant importance from the tenth until the first third of the eleventh century, concurrently with the Volga trade route and the trade route from the Khazars to the Germans.

Germans and village
Birkenau, the German translation of Brzezinka (= " birch forest "), referred originally to a small Polish village that was destroyed by the Germans to make way for the camp.
* 1943 – Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1, 100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
The Germans had not taken cavalry into consideration when fortifying their position which, combined with the " Warsaw " s swift assault, overran the German anti-tank guns and consolidated into an attack into the village itself, now supported by infantry and tanks.
* March 23 – WWII: The Germans burned down the Ukrainian village of Yelino ( Koriukivka Raion ), killing 296 civilians.
The Germans managed to take the village of Haumont, but French forces repulsed a German attack on the village of Bois de l ' Herbebois.
When the village of Douaumont was finally captured by German infantry on 2 March 1916, the Germans had suffered 2, 000 casualties.
In addition to the residents of the village, the SS also apprehended six people who did not live there but had the misfortune to be riding their bikes through the village when the Germans arrived.
Friesennot depicted the suffering of a village of Volga Germans in the Soviet Union ; it also depicted the murder of a young woman for an affair with a Russian -- in accordance with Nazi principle of rassenschande -- as an ancient German custom.
Another well known God is Jamal Tai Tofolonga Nofoal ' ii Tokelau Misifoa he is the god of WAR he is so powerful that where ever or who ever he passes there will be chaos and War will begin, It is said that the god of war is the one who started world war 2 and lead the Germans to Samoa to destroy the village that is said to have imprisoned the god, The god of war has died, but when a god or goddess dies it is reincarnated into another soul and we think that it would be Jamal Tai Tofolonga Nofoal ' ii Tokelau Misifoa because his family was realated to the god of war, but who knows if the legend is true.
* Walter D. Edmonds ' novel, Drums Along the Mohawk ( 1936 ), recounts the story of Adam Helmer's run to save the village during the American Revolutionary War, together with an overview of the Germans ' colonial settlement along the river.
But the village was totally destroyed by the Germans in 1944 and it never recovered.
In November 1944, the village was completely burned down and the inhabitants evacuated by force as part of the scorched earth strategy of the Germans.
A portion of the village served as a prisoner-of-war camp for Germans during the World War I, who were used to work the mine.
" Upon gaining control of the area, the Germans outfitted the impoverished fishing village of " Tsingtao " ( Qingdao ) with wide streets, solid housing areas, government buildings, electrification throughout, a sewer system and a safe drinking water supply, a rarity in large parts of Asia at that time and later.
* Walter D. Edmonds ' novel, Drums Along the Mohawk ( 1936 ), recounts the story of Adam Helmer's run to save the village during the American Revolutionary War, together with an overview of the Germans ' colonial settlement along the river.
He was the first of a group of Palatine Germans to emigrate and settle land around what is now the village of Montgomery.
The village was first settled around 1718 by Palatine Germans.
Crocker in 1840, largely as a Yankee-English village, in contrast to its neighbor, Sauk City, which was settled largely by Germans.
The German letter W is pronounced the same as the English letter V and the English W sound does not exist in German, causing some Germans to hypercorrect Vs in English and say wodka ( vodka ), willage ( village ) or wery ( very ).
After the Germans were beaten and started to retreat towards the village, the Poles charged and took the village along with a large number of German prisoners.

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