Based near Frankfurt, the firm survived two world wars, including a 1944 bombing raid.
The EU itself was born of the catastrophe of two world wars, collisions of competing nation-states.
He was a dashing archaeologist between the two World Wars, instantly recognisable by his trademark hat.
He also had a passion for the blues singers of years between the two world wars.
The EU was awarded the prize for its role in uniting the continent after two world wars.
This may seem puzzling to people with memories of two world wars (not to mention the Falklands).
During the two world wars, women plugged the gap left by men leaving to join the armed forces.
And through two world wars and a long Cold War, America stood with our Greek allies and friends.
Focusing on a long-term view of the EU's activities, the committee spoke of reconciliation following the two World Wars.
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Spurn Point was once an important military base during the two world wars.
Our grandfathers and fathers fought and died in two world wars to give us freedom to act as we wish.
Britain and France, whose alliance dated to the entente cordiale of 1904 and two world wars, drew opposite lessons from this humiliation.
Beyond calculations of interest, the emotional ties created by a common language and alliances in two world wars are clearly still strong.
It may be that Mr Bowles's bleak world is more accessible to societies that experienced the full horrors of two world wars.
Despite the huge cost of two world wars, the policy was successful.
In total the Commonwealth War Graves Commission is responsible for commemorating almost 1.7 million service personnel who died in the two world wars.
The globalisation that followed the industrial revolution was brought to an end by two world wars, high protectionist barriers and the Great Depression.
At various points in its history, such as the period between the two world wars, isolationism has played a powerful role in American politics.
Besides, she had been referring not to the encroachments of the European Union but in a general way to this century's two world wars.
The cenotaph in Enniskillen is a memorial to the Inniskilling regiments and the servicemen and women from County Fermanagh who died in two world wars.
But it looks set to air the views of those who hark back to the years between the two world wars, when conservatives ran Hungary.
The two World Wars saw the fall of old imperial powers and the rise of new nation states, usually now as republics, with new currencies.
These years represented a triumph of Wilsonianism and of the lessons that America had learned from the Spanish-American War, two world wars, and the Vietnam War.
The amount of gold used to make a medal shrunk after each of the two World Wars, according to Olympic medal collector and expert Jim Greensfelder.
The Great Depression and two World Wars shook the continent to its core, and rapid industrialisation and urbanisation saw the need for space in cities at a premium.
The project was consciously conceived as a way to bring peace to a continent ravaged by centuries of war culminating in the horrors of the two world wars.
On a crisp autumn morning, assorted military, religious and political dignitaries turned out to pay their respects to those who died in the two world wars and other conflicts.
As other countries copied the British model, a new era of globalisation began to emerge, which was interrupted in the 20th century by two world wars and a depression.
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