Quotes About Germany

Given the aggression shown by Nazi Germany by the end of summer 1939, such a bomb, if it could be built, might be needed in a world on the precipice of war. Plans to obtain it were rapidly put together on both sides.

For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time…. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.

This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace in our time.

Die Intellektuelle Geschichte Deutschlands lehrt uns, daß der Geist mit Vorliebe in den Seelen weht, die ihre Größe durch ein Leben der eintönigen Routine erkämpfen.

In 2006, after 8 years of losses, Wal-Mart beat a retreat from Germany, selling its stores to Metro, Germany's leading retailer, losing $1 billion in the process.

Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.

It is clear from this that if Halifax and not Churchill had become prime minister, he would have wanted to seek accommodation with Germany, or at any rate considered peace terms if Hitler offered them. He would have had some support outside the cabinet. Some ministers would have followed him.

In Germany, they were called the Icemanner, or Icemen Days, and people believed that it was never safe to plant until the Icemen were gone.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

Let us put Germany in the saddle, so to speak—it already knows how to ride.

Kriegler's assertion that the Germans had told London

TWICE THIS POLICY would bring Britain into war with Germany until, by 1945, Britain was too weak to play the role any longer. She would lose her empire because of what Lord Salisbury had said in 1877 was "the commonest error in politics…sticking to the

But as it happened, a team of chemists in Germany had recently managed to refine morphine into a new drug, heroin, which the German pharmaceutical company Bayer began to mass market as a wonder drug—a safer alternative to morphine. Heroin was created by the same research team that invented aspirin.

Er ruft spielt süßer den Tod der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland er ruft streicht dunkler die Geigen dann steigt ihr als Rauch in die Luft dann habt ihr ein Grab in den Wolken da liegt man nicht eng

he calls out play death more sweetly Death is a master from Deutschland he calls scrape those fiddles more darkly then as smoke you'll rise in the air then you'll have a grave in the clouds there you'll lie at ease

Friedrich von Bernhardi, one of Germany's most influential military thinkers. Bernhardi believed the German people were destined to become the master race, who would prevail over lesser breeds and rule the world.

Germany's siege mentality and gnawing sense of encirclement (the need to 'storm out of the fortress' to prevent a Russian attack); Austria-Hungary's hatred of Serbia; Russia's deep fear of Germany; France's vengeful chauvinism; and Britain's ferocious Germanophobia.

Thwarted by the British and French on the world stage, Berlin decided in 1913 to concentrate Germany's military objectives in Europe. That year Germany grew into a singularly dangerous continental presence: besieged, paranoid and armed to the teeth.

On March 7, 1936, Hitler's army marched unopposed into the Rhineland, a demilitarized buffer zone between France and Germany. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull did not protest, and FDR went fishing.

This morning he cut up cubes of watermelon and honeydew, sliced an apple and a peach, tossed in a few red grapes. He drizzled the whole with honey and a spoonful of brandy. Macédoine, they called such a salad in Germany: from Macedonia, that volatile Balkan mix.

Here he briefly attended lectures by Gustav Kirchhoff, said to have been the most boring lecturer in all Germany at the time. (Some feat, considering

A stable and prosperous Germany, he believed, was the best guarantor of a lasting peace.

That was when Lang knew it was time to leave Germany.

The EU is the continuation of Germany by other means