Few wanted to remember that two years later, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
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When the Germans eventually discovered them, the seven men held out for hours, against nearly eight hundred S.S. Storm Troopers.
It was sheer guts, though, that got her over the Pyrenees in her espradilles when the Germans were at her heels.
When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, the German invaders occupied the aristocratic palaces in Kracow and confiscated thousands of priceless paintings.
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It symbolises the death marches that took place when the Germans began emptying the camps and forcing prisoners to walk hundreds of kilometres in freezing weather with little food.
The Hungarian government lit the fuse in late 1989, when it granted East Germans who made their way into Hungary a clear transit to West Germany.
During the second world war, when most Tunisian nationalists supported the German-Italian axis, Mr Bourguiba declined to reject the French, even when in 1942 the Germans let him out of his French prison.
When he left to battle Germans, Pamela began a series of love affairs.
That will not happen tomorrow, he agrees, but it has to come some time and, when it does, the Germans will be playing a full part.
Although many Germans feel revulsion when they see NPD supporters during demonstrations in city centres, when it comes to a political initiative to ban the party, any attempt degenerates into bickering.
He disowned his son when he was captured by the Germans in the second world war.
But when the euro drops, the Germans blame the French, who finger the Dutch, and so on.
When they talk about taxes, Germans sound like they are discussing diseases.
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It set the example by buying 6m doses (enough, when diluted, to vaccinate 24m Germans), with enough for 11m more people arriving in 2003.
Armed with pistols, some rifles and automatic weapons, and hand-made grenades, the resistance fighters attacked the Germans and their allies when they tried to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943.
Germans may well point out that when the euro was created over a decade ago, they were the ones whose wages were uncompetitively expensive.
But migrants and Germans lead largely separate lives: when German children reach school age their parents flee (along with middle-class Turks), leaving poorer migrants alone together.
The euro zone's crisis has tested the efficacy of these European rules and led Germans to ask why they should pay when others break them.
Yet Germans are edgy about May 1st, when their labour market opens to citizens of eight east European countries that joined the European Union in 2004.
Will the Germans still finance the Greeks in 2013 when they have not whittled down their deficit and the Greeks still want to retire at 50 on full pensions?
In terms of briefing our international partners, understanding that ISAF is an international entity made up obviously with a big, valuable contribution from the United States, but when the President talks with the French, the Germans, the Danes and others, it is because they are valuable partners in this mission.
The G-20 told the Germans and French no at every recent meeting when they proposed the FTT.
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More positively, Germans have grounds to feel their government acted to protect them when the crisis broke.
It has recently ducked clashes with the Germans, over coal subsidies, and with the French, when it decided to evade a European Court judgment against a state subsidy to Air France.
When Mr Robertson demanded power over bits of the Frankfurt operations too, the Germans balked.
Lukas Radbruch, president of the European Association for Palliative Care, recalls that when he started working as a doctor in the field 20 years ago, Germans did not want to talk about death.
He set aside his prejudice only during the second world war when his knowledge of the desert was put at the disposal of the British fighting the Germans and Italians in North Africa.
When the Dutch were hammered 3-0 by Germany in an exhibition game last November, the Germans' possession-oriented game and fluidity of movement made the Dutch look decidedly sluggish.
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