In World War II German U-boats stalked Europe-bound freighters in the nearby Gulf of Mexico.
In 1945, war crimes trials of 24 surviving German World War II leaders began in Nuremberg.
Compare that to eight years ago, when the accusation that Mr Tusk's grandfather was a volunteer member of the World War II German units was enough to destroy his reputation.
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After all, not every single German in World War II was a Nazi sympathizer, and not every sports parent is obsessed with a scholarship.
After the Spanish sting came the looting of German gold in World War II.
The Poles later focused on Germany's codes, and that work was used by the British in breaking German codes during World War II.
The original Maginot Line failed during World War II because the German Army went around it, through Belgium, and soon ended up in Paris.
The city was home to the Western Approaches Command, which co-ordinated the effort to protect merchant shipping from the German navy in World War II.
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The families of heroic sailors who died when their ship came under German attack in World War II have gathered to remember them 70 years on.
The Austrian move to compensate Holocaust survivors came as a deadline expired for Swiss companies to agree compensation for slave labourers used in their German affiliates during World War II.
But German Defence Secretary Franz Josef Jung has defied calls to resign over the incident - the deadliest involving German troops since World War II - and a defence ministry spokesman insisted the decision to attack was "militarily necessary and correct".
It was relied on greatly for the German war effort during World War II.
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Daskal said German saboteurs detained during World War II were, in fact, allowed to challenge their detention in a U.S. court.
It may seem surprising that unexploded bombs remain undiscovered in Berlin and other German cities decades after World War II ended.
Mr. Prinz von Preussen, who is the great-great-grandson of Wilhelm II, the last German kaiser, spoke with The Wall Street Journal by email.
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Huts 11 and 11A at the Buckinghamshire museum were the first to house the large electro-mechanical Bombe devices, which decrypted German military messages during World War II.
The Czech ghetto was still a gateway to hell but because it was less brutal and squalid than the others it also came to play a role in one of the most extraordinary of all the German propaganda operations of World War II.
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American forces first began working out of Lajes during World War II, tasked with hunting German submarines.
It is estimated the Nazis murdered 80, 000 people at Majdanek, three-quarters of them Jews, during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
In 1945, the U.S. and Soviet armies met in the east German city of Torgau as World War II drew to a close in Europe.
He continued to write novels, often based on his own wartime experiences throughout his life - perhaps most poignantly in his first book A Crowd is not Company, which took its lead from his experience as a German prisoner of war during World War II.
Heidegger, was a German who was deeply affected by World War II.
Marie Ozanne, a Guernsey woman who stood up to the German forces occupying the island during World War II, is to be honoured with a blue plaque.
Rumour, myth and innuendo have it that Hitler was so impressed by both the view down the Arno and the collection of art that it was the only bridge not blown up by German troops as they retreated during World War II.
Kahn, ironically, would end his life while again under German rule, in occupied Paris during World War II.
Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard did so after World War II, triggering the so-called German Economic Miracle, which didn't sputter out until the mid-1970s.
But thanks to Pope John Paul II, with his new ruling to German Catholic bishops on the issue, that is what they face.
Japanese Americans were herded like cattle into internment camps during World War II (as were smaller numbers of German, Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian Americans).
Among the more famous (or infamous) executive orders in U.S. history, FDR issued one that forcibly transferred Japanese-Americans and German-Americans to internment camps during World War II.
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For example, if a preemptive attack on the German war machine had succeeded in preventing World War II, we would never know the enormity of the evil it prevented.
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