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Quotes About German

It was pretty clear, once the SKM codebook was in British hands, that the signals were not just coded but also enciphered. Codes substitute whole phrases with numbers or letters. The German navy then added an extra layer using a cipher for each number, so that each one stood for something else, using another key that the Room 40 team clearly did not possess.
~ David Boyle
Later in the war, the German naval cipher would be changed every day at midnight, and it was the duty of the night duty team to crack it before daybreak. But that was some years ahead.
~ David Boyle
We had to redefine our musical culture. Not only our musical culture, however: at the end of the sixties all German artists had the same problems. Writers, directors, painters … all of them had to invent a new language.
~ David Buckley
public opinion is undergoing a major evolution, due to the impressive German victories.
~ David I. Kertzer
They must learn to respect each other and be respected again – the intellectual must respect the manual labourer and vice versa. Neither can exist without the other. From them both will emerge the new man: the man of the coming German Reich! Adolf Hitler, Landsberg, December 18, 1924
~ David Irving
The astonishing saga of the code breakers is really an example of the power of mathematics. Hardy's "clean and gentle" science, as it turned out, was stronger than the entire German war machine, which, for all its posturing, ended up being trumped by a group of geeky mathematicians and engineers working out their ideas on paper and fitting electrical switches inside ugly-looking machines.
~ David Leavitt
We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans
~ Adolf Hitler
Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
~ William Ralph Inge
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
~ Walter Ulbricht
In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada.
~ Michael Froman
I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
~ Otto von Bismarck
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
~ Manuel Puig
German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.
~ Horst Seehofer
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
~ Mark Twain
Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.
~ Emo Philips
Who is this man?''Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.''No? Spelt like Yes?''That's right.
~ Ian Fleming, Doctor No
The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.
~ John Oliver
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
~ Fritz Sauckel
A German infantryman wrote in his diary, 'Courage has nothing to do with it. The fear of death surpasses all other feelings and terrible compulsion alone drives the soldier forward.'22
~ James Wyllie
Nine out of ten beer drinkers are decent and reputable citizens," Roosevelt declared. "That large class of Americans who have adopted the German customs in regard to drinking ales and beers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ are in the main Ã¢â'¬Â¦ law-abiding.
~ Edmund Morris
They now contain the residence of a German prince, who styles himself Emperor of the Romans, and form the centre, as well as strength, of the Austrian power.
~ Edward Gibbon
If you've never studied German before or think you know nothing about it, you might be in for a little surprise. You already know many German words .And you have the advantage of being an English speaker,which means that your knowledge of that language will be a helpful tool for learning German efficiently and comfortably.
~ Edward Swick
Still, real information continued to drip out – often tucked away in scientific papers that went unnoticed, such as when a German research institute reported in mid-April that lockdowns had been broadly useless. Yet – more than two months after they began – the lockdowns continue. Only Alaska has gone
~ Alex Berenson
His only realistic hope of survival was to order his own artillery to fire on his positions to stall the German attack. Some of his own men might be killed, but "pulling the chain," as it was called, was his only option.
~ Alex Kershaw