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Germans and were
`` The Germans in the fourth century were a very simple race, who comprehended little of natural laws, and who therefore referred phenomena they did not understand to supernatural intervention.
Influential people in America were warning the Pentagon to be prepared against desperation gas attacks by the Germans in future campaigns.
The French were hopeless disciplinarians .. Germans good and methodical, but it was not German that I really wanted Rosalind to learn.
Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.
While the earlier settlers were primarily of British ancestry, the newer settlers also consisted of Germans, Irish, and African-Americans.
Among early pre-war pioneers of self-propelled AA guns were the Germans.
Many Germans of left-wing views were influenced by the cultural experimentation that followed the Russian Revolution, such as constructivism.
Overall, Yellow succeeded beyond what most people had expected, despite the fact that the Allies had 4, 000 armoured vehicles and the Germans 2, 200, and the Allied tanks were often superior in armour and caliber of cannon.
The Germans never achieved the kind of fire concentrations their enemies were capable of by 1944.
The Germans were aware of the error of the First World War, and rejected the concept of orientating its economy geared to fighting only a short war.
J. P. Harris and Robert M. Citino point out that the Germans had always had a marked preference for short, decisive campaigns – but were unable to achieve short-order victories in First World War conditions.
" The Germans were discovered in the engine room and shot on sight.
" An alternative account says that the Germans who boarded Nicosian were killed by the freighter's engine room staff ; this report apparently came from the officer in command of the muleteers.
One account from the book describes it being prepared for the casualties at Mons where " the orderlies were just beginning to make Bovril for the wounded, when the Germans deliberately shelled the bearers and ambulance wagons as they were bringing the wounded into the hospital.
The Germans were reluctant to relinquish naming rights to the French, often calling it cassiopeium.
Germans, Irish, Poles, Swedes and Czechs made up nearly two-thirds of the foreign-born population ( by 1900, whites were 98. 1 % of the city's population ).
Only when Lenin sought a coalition with Trotsky and others, were negotiations with the Germans voted through with a simple majority.
Criticism of other officials was allowed during these meetings, for instance, Karl Radek said to Lenin ( criticising his position of supporting peace with the Germans ), " If there were five hundred courageous men in Petrograd, we would put you in prison.
Eisenhower's first struggles however were with Allied leaders and officers on matters vital to the success of the Normandy invasion ; he argued with Roosevelt over an essential agreement with de Gaulle to use French resistance forces in covert and sabotage operations against the Germans in advance of Overlord.
Eisenhower then designed a bombing plan in France in advance of Overlord and argued with Churchill over the latter's concern with civilian casualties ; de Gaulle interjected that the casualties were justified in shedding the yoke of the Germans, and Eisenhower prevailed.
Tacitus stated that the Germans were passionately fond of dicing, so much that they would stake their personal liberty when bankrupt.
As a result of the Treaty, Germany's territory was reduced by about 13 %, several million ethnic Germans came under foreign rule, even though they were the majority in many of those areas, the Rhineland was demilitarized and Allied troops occupied several areas.
The Germans were also fond of large destroyers, but while the initial Type 1934 displaced over 3, 000 tons, their armament was equal to smaller vessels.
" The future alone will judge which was the true Germany in 1933, and who were the true Germans -- those who subscribe to the more or less materialistic-mythical racial prejudices of the day, or those Germans pure in heart and mind, heirs to the great Germans of the past whose tradition they revere and perpetuate.

Germans and able
He was able to devastate large areas and eliminate any form of active resistance, but the majority of the Germans fled at the sight of the Roman army into remote forests.
The German Embassy in Ankara had been vacant ever since the retirement of the previous ambassador Friedrich von Keller in November 1938, and Ribbentrop was only able to get the Turks to accept Papen as Ambassador when the Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu complained to Kroll in April 1939 about when the Germans were ever going to sent a new ambassador.
As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.
Neither the French nor the Germans favoured del Monte, and the Emperor had expressly excluded him from the list of acceptable candidates, but the French were able to block the other two factions, allowing del Monte to promote himself as a compromise.
His father remained at the labor camp, but was able to occasionally visit, until he was tortured and killed by the Germans for his involvement in a plot to arm the camp prisoners.
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.
Turning this piece of bad luck on its head, was able to add more operational details to the message when finally sent and increase his standing with the Germans.
The Allies only recognized this after several heavy setbacks, and the Germans were able to hold the region until they launched their last-ditch offensive on the Western Front into the Ardennes.
Exploiting observation from higher ground to the east, the Germans were able to inflict heavy losses on the British divisions holding the new line beyond Langemarck.
Germans threw themselves into their clubs, voluntary associations, and professional organizations out of frustration with the failures of the national government and political parties, thereby helping to undermine the Weimar Republic and facilitate Hitler ’ s rise to power .” In this article about the fall of the Weimar Republic, the author makes the claim that Hitler rose to power so quickly because he was able to mobilize the groups towards one common goal.
A report of the Institute on Re-education of the Axis Countries in June 1945 recommended: " Only an inflexible long-term occupation authority will be able to lead the Germans to a fundamental revision of their recent political philosophy.
The Allied offensive was slowed and the Germans were able to counterattack in southeast France.
Clemenceau replied that the alliance with America and Britain was of more value than an isolated France which held onto the Rhineland: " In fifteen years I will be dead, but if you do me the honour of visiting my tomb, you will be able to say that the Germans have not fulfilled all the clauses of the treaty, and that we are still on the Rhine ".
" Seneca believed that the disciplined Roman army was regularly able to beat the Germans, who were known for their fury.
Because of his knowledge of Polish, Scholz was able to remain in Zgorzelec, but he chose to leave in 1946 when Germans who remained in the city were forced to adopt Polish citizenship.
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.
* By being the first English language historian to bring attention to the work of the French economist and historian Étienne Mantoux, especially his 1946 book The Carthaginian Peace: or The Economic Consequences of Mr Keynes, he was able to show that Germany was capable of paying reparations to France after the First World War ; the only problem was that the Germans were unwilling.
Because the Germans needed the Sonderkommandos to remain physically able, they were granted moderately less squalid living conditions than other inmates: they slept in their own barracks, which more than any other in the camp resembled normal human dwellings ; they were allowed to keep and use various goods such as food, medicines and cigarettes brought by those who were sent to the gas chambers ; and, unlike ordinary inmates, they were not subject to arbitrary, random killing by guards.
The poorly reinforced battalions of Bailén and Jaén, of 3ª Division, twice repelled the Poles, but the Polish division, encouraged by the Germans who arrived later, was able to overwhelm the position of the Cerrojones.
This complicated the supply problem of the 15th Army and removed the chance of the Germans being able to assemble enough troops for a serious counterattack to retake Antwerp.
While their early daylight raids in May 1917 were able to easily evade the weak defenses of London, the strengthening of the home defence fighter force led to the Germans switching to night raids from 3 September 1917.
The Germans were able to surprise the defenders with a glider-borne assault in the early morning of 26 April and captured the bridge, but the British were able to set off the charges and destroy the structure.

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