It was relied on greatly for the German war effort during World War II.
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Mr. DERSHOWITZ: They demanded that the German war criminals be delivered for trial in accordance with the treaty.
Professor ALAN DERSHOWITZ (Harvard Law School): (Reading) The whole world cried out for punishment of the German war criminals.
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.
In the short term, though, Haber merely saved the German war effort as it was on the brink of running out of nitrogen explosives in 1914, cut off from Chilean nitrates.
This covered not only money deposited by German Jews in Swiss banks that was never reclaimed, but also bullion of doubtful origin that the Swiss National Bank had bought from the German Reichsbank during the war.
At the end of the war, German submarines surrendered in the Foyle from where they were taken out to sea and destroyed or sunk.
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The post-war West German leaders took the insights of Austrian economics and applied them once again.
That is the way it was meant to be when the German constitution was written after the war, with the Americans having a strong hand on the pen.
There were thousands of cards of female prisoners from the areas near Moscow that were under German occupation during the war.
Germany wants to build a centre to mark the fate of millions deported after the war from historically German lands in eastern Europe.
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He became king in 1934, led the army during the German conquest of the country in World War Two and abdicated in favor of his son Baudouin in 1951.
What is new here is Mr Strachan's insistence that the global aspect of the war was really a German initiative.
In the second world war it was the first German city to fall to the Allies and much of it was reduced to rubble (although the damaged cathedral survived).
The original Maginot Line failed during World War II because the German Army went around it, through Belgium, and soon ended up in Paris.
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Google "Dresden" and "Kriegsverbrechen, " the German word for "war crimes, " and you'll get almost 26, 000 results.
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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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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For example, he argues that the decision by Britain and France to declare war because of the German attack on Poland was an act of cynicism because they knew they could do nothing to help the Poles.
In 1943, Adolf Hitler mobilized the entire German adult population for the country's war effort.
Swiss banking secrecy came under attack after the second world war when the allies asked for German assets to be handed over.
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".
The latest deaths bring to 25 the number of German soldiers who have died in the Afghan war since 2002.
But, two decades after the end of the war, she travelled to the German city Goettingen, as near to the heart of Germany as you can get.
For the first few weeks after the landings, casualty rates sometimes matched those of the Western Front in World War I (or of the German-Soviet fighting).
In the 1930s Nazi barbarism was discounted because of the shocking World War I stories about the behavior of German troops: After all, weren't those tales of German atrocities against the Belgians wildly exaggerated?
No German government since the war has been thrown out after just one term.
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In 1944, in World War II, Bulgaria announced that it had withdrawn from the war and that German troops were to be disarmed.
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