Sentences with phrase «german armies had»

As meteorology was not aware of such link, the ambushing Russian and German Armies had not been warned to prevent activities that would turn the two seas «up - site - down», at least during the early winter season.

Yeah, the German army had «Gott mit uns» (God with us) engraved on their belt buckles until the end of the Third Reich!

Although the German army had many technological and organizational advantages, one that was most noticed by the Russians was German military dogs.

The German army had marched to within 20 miles of Paris, and the French army moved to engage them at the Battle of the Marne.

Not exact matches

«The regiment actually had a football match with the Germans who beat them 3 - 2,» an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps wrote in a letter to a friend in London.

Bolivia seemed to enjoy overwhelming advantages over Paraguay: it had thrice the latter's population, an army well - trained by the German general Hans von Kundt, and an ample supply of arms purchased by loans from American banks.

Millions of German - speaking people who had lived in Poland and elsewhere in central Europe for centuries fled their homes as the Red Army advanced, fearing (rightly) for their lives.

This allowed the German army to snuff out the resistance, ensuring that the most courageous and patriotic Poles would be safely dead — allowing Stalin to impose a Communist puppet regime soon after the war ended, a regime that oppressed Poles for decades.

German armies were retreating through Poland, having been driven from Russia by the Red Army.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was only a young teenager when he was REQUIRED by law (being a «law - abiding» citizen in America you would understand) to join Hitler's Youth Group and after turning 18 he was conscripted (as a patriotic American you can understand young men being drafted) into the German army, which, after a few months he deserted (that alone should make you respect him) and spent a few months as a German POW in an American POW camp.

I think the current Pope, Joe Ratzinger, has not purged the training he received in the German Army, during WWII.

Its flat topography has left it vulnerable to invading armies from the time of the medieval Mongols to the Poles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the Nazi Germans in the twentieth.

Finally, I ask a question hesitantly because I will risk the ill - will of Germans: Would it not be bad policy to have a German army, with all that goes with a German army in the European situation?

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empArmy Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German emparmy, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

The men's titles from 1943 - 45 were won by 6» 5 Yvon Petra, freshly released from a German prisoner of war camp where he had been held after being captured in battle while fighting in the French Army (Petra went on to win Wimbledon in 1946, becoming the last champ to take Centre Court in long trousers).

It's unthinkable, for example, that any British foreign minister would get away with repeating what Joschka Fischer (German foreign minister) said in 1998: «Transforming the European Union into a single state with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age.»

The first four are all NATO partners, close allies and would not really have a geopolitical interest in keeping the German army small.

Reported in Scientific American — This Week in World War I: September 19, 1914 The Belgian field army retreated into the fortified city of Antwerp only 16 days after the Germans had invaded.

«I have a military background myself; I served for 17 years in the German army and took part in three peace keeping operations, while researching my doctorate.

The Corpus was conceived in 1853 by Theodor Mommsen, a German historian who dispatched a small army of epigraphists to peruse Roman ruins, inspect museum collections, and ferret out inscribed slabs of marble or limestone wherever they had been recycled, including the tops of medieval bell towers and the undersides of toilet seats.

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The film centers on Churchill's boisterous resistance to the invading German armies, and the disquiet that provokes within his party, which still has a substantial contingent hoping to sue for peace.

(3) Along with other uncritical adherents of Social Darwinism, Göbbels and Hitler believe that they are doing the world a service by liquidating Jews and so - called inferior peoples, and Hitler is even willing to have all Germans die as a race because he believes that they are being proved inferior when the army is incapable of withstanding the Allied military onslaught.

Prosecuting attorney Tad Lawson (Richard Widmark), an Army colonel, indicts several Germans who have committed war crimes in enforcing Hitler's mad mandates.

When Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain and France were surrounded by the German army during a fierce battle in France, they had to evacuate by civilian boats across the English channel to get home safely.

When Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain and France were surrounded by the German army during a fierce battle in France at the start of WWII, they had to evacuate by boat across the English channel.

It is grisly, exhausting work that puts the souls of the mediums in danger of becoming permanently separated from their physical forms, and it is made more dangerous by the discovery that the German army is not only aware of the Spirit Corps but has a double agent assisting them.

Roth, a twenty - one - year - old German soldier, has spent most of his time in occupied Paris working in the army's back offices.

A school dropout and frequent vagrant, Hitler had no achievements to speak of until he served honorably in the German army during the Great War.

Throughout the World War I, the German army, who already had extensive knowledge of the GSD breed and how to use them for military purposes, had made good use of this breed.

German Shepherds have been breed specifically as police, army and working dogs for so many years it is crucial to socialise your puppy with other dogs and as many people as possible early (before socialising with dogs you don't know make sure your pup is completely safe)!

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The monastery was shut down by the Soviet authorities in 1925 — by which time the Russian Empire had been overthrown by the Bolshevik revolution, and Kiev had become the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic — but it opened again in 1942 as a war hospital upon the invasion of Ukraine by the German army.

The Dutch States Army had become a federal army and was mostly made up of Scottish, English, German and Swiss troops, although still commanded by the DuArmy had become a federal army and was mostly made up of Scottish, English, German and Swiss troops, although still commanded by the Duarmy and was mostly made up of Scottish, English, German and Swiss troops, although still commanded by the Dutch.

Just a few days after D - Day, the Battle for Carentan took place in France as the United States Army battled the German Wehrmacht for control of the small French town less than 20 miles from Omaha Beach.

Rise of Germany is a free, hard as nails run «n gun that has you being an army of one to protect and secure the path for a German victory.

Centered around the experiences of Ronald «Red» Daniels, a soldier in the 16th Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division of the United States Army, the campaign takes players from the blasted beaches of Normandy on D - Day, through the frost - bitten forests of the Belgian - German border, and all the way to the fortified banks of the river Rhine.

The game has four armies, only two of which have so far been announced one of which is the German Empire.

The voice actors have a German twang which seems at odds with them flying in the United States Army Air Forces, but that's only a minor grumble in the grand scheme of things.

Widespread plunder of private collections also took place following the victory of the Red Army in 1945, and in the 1970s when East German authorities would levy unaffordable tax bills on collectors, accepting works of art in lieu of payment.

The German army helmets, which loomed so threateningly in Lüpertz's 1970s paintings, sometimes appear, their out - of - placeness emphasized by a slight levitation, as though they had been sloppily collaged out of another context.

This is a dead portrait, named after the German news magazine that first printed the shocking photograph of the corpse of Ulrike Meinhof, the Red Army Faction terrorist who was cut down from the towel noose with which she either killed herself or was murdered (perhaps having been previously raped), in her Stammheim prison cell in 1976.

The so - called Acts of Union 1707 came in the middle of the long period of domination in London of Sir Godfrey Kneller, a German portraitist who had eventually succeeded as principal court painter the Dutch Sir Peter Lely, whose style he had adopted for his enormous and formulaic output, of greatly varying quality, which was itself repeated by an army of lesser painters.