`` 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 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.

The Germans also made use of blocking obstacles, erecting a trench and earthen wall to hinder Roman movement along the route of the killing zone.

The Germans also built a number of other fully armored turretless assault guns, including the StuG IV, Brummbär and Sturmtiger.

Beckenbauer pulled a goal back for the Germans and Ramsey replaced the ageing and tired Charlton with Colin Bell who further tested the German keeper Maier and also provided a great cross for Geoff Hurst who uncharacteristically squandered the chance.

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.

Charles also did much to support Winfrid, later Saint Boniface, the " Apostle of the Germans.

There are also several thousand German citizens and other ethnic Germans residing in Denmark with no historical connection to this group.

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.

In 1840 Hoffmann wrote a song about the Zollverein, also to Haydn's melody, in which he praised the free trade of German goods which brought Germans and Germany closer.

It is also spoken by 50, 000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds minority language status.

Bulwer-Lytton is also credited with the appellation for the Germans " Das Volk der Dichter und Denker ", that is, the people of poets and thinkers.

She also wrote that the Soviets were " violating girls and women of all ages ", and about her, her daughter's and grandson's suffering as displaced persons in postwar Berlin, where the Germans abandoned them for a possible hostage exchange in April 1945, as the Russians were advancing.

Guatemala City also has a sizeable Indigenous population and minority groups such as Germans and other Europeans, Jewish, Asians primarily Chinese and Korean, and many groups of other Latin American origins such as Peruvian, and Colombian amongst others.

Germans also are very mobile ; millions travel abroad each year.

However the majority of East Germans over time increasingly regarded the state's ideals to be hollow, though there was also a substantial number of East Germans who regarded their culture as having a healthier, more authentic mentality than that of West Germany.

The latter term, because it was based plainly on geographic location, was sometimes also used by East Germans.

However, over time East Germany's abbreviation DDR became colloquial also among most West Germans and West German media.

Germans in the east also founded a series of border counties or Marches.

Thousands of East Germans also tried to reach the West by staging sit-ins at West German diplomatic facilities in other East European capitals, most notably in Prague.

Germans controlled about 80 % of the country's international commerce ; they also owned and operated utilities in Cap Haïtien and Port-au-Prince, the main wharf and a tramway in the capital, and a railroad serving the Plaine de Cul-du-Sac.

These included Germans who had collaborated with Germany before the war, but also those who considered themselves German but had been neutral ; those who were partially " Polonized " but " Germanizable "; and Germans who were of Polish nationality.

The Germans also developed a series of teleprinter encryption systems, quite different from Enigma.