Realising Coming_to_believe this they continued to call upon their German ally to provide Supply military assistance within the sector .

During the First World War , German troops constructed Building deep dugouts throughout the Butte and surrounded Surrounding it by several belts of barbed wire , making it a formidable defensive Defending position in advance of ( Gird Trenches to the British ) .

The 2nd Australian Division occupied Hold the Butte on 24 February 1917 , during the German retirements Departing made Action on the Somme front , preparatory to Operation ( ) , the German retreat Escaping to the Hindenburg Line .

The 2nd Australian Division occupied Hold the Butte on 24 February 1917 , during the German retirements Departing made Action on the Somme front , preparatory to Operation ( ) , the German retreat Escaping to the Hindenburg Line .

The Butte de Warlencourt was recaptured Conquering by the German 2nd Army on 24 March 1918 , during the retreat Escaping of the 2nd Division in Operation Michael , the German spring offensive Attack .

The Butte de Warlencourt was recaptured Conquering by the German 2nd Army on 24 March 1918 , during the retreat Escaping of the 2nd Division in Operation Michael , the German spring offensive Attack .

They were accompanied by 300 Lithuanian and German slave laborers , whom the Stroganovs had purchased Commerce_buy from the tsar .

The Schlieffen Plan ( , ) was a name given , after the First World War , to German war plans , the influence of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen and his thinking on an invasion of France and Belgium which began on 4 August 1914 .

After losing the First World War , German official historians of the and other writers described Statement the plan as a blueprint for victory .

German historians claimed Statement that Moltke had ruined the plan by meddling with it out of timidity .

Post-war writing by senior German officers like Hermann von Kuhl , Gerhard Tappen , Wilhelm Groener and the historians led by the former ( Lieutenant-Colonel ) Wolfgang Förster , managed Preventing_or_letting to establish a commonly accepted narrative that it was the failure to follow the blueprint by Moltke the Younger , rather than German strategic miscalculation , that condemned Judgment_communication the belligerents to four years of attrition warfare instead of the quick , decisive conflict it `` should '' have been .

Post-war writing by senior German officers like Hermann von Kuhl , Gerhard Tappen , Wilhelm Groener and the historians led by the former ( Lieutenant-Colonel ) Wolfgang Förster , managed Preventing_or_letting to establish a commonly accepted narrative that it was the failure to follow the blueprint by Moltke the Younger , rather than German strategic miscalculation , that condemned Judgment_communication the belligerents to four years of attrition warfare instead of the quick , decisive conflict it `` should '' have been .

They judged Deciding that the physical constraints of German , Belgian and French railways and the Belgian and northern French road networks made it impossible to move enough troops far enough and fast enough for them to fight a decisive battle if the French retreated from the frontier .

Some records Recording turned Becoming up after the fall of the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) , making an outline of German war planning possible for the first time , proving wrong much post-1918 writing .

Some records Recording turned Becoming up after the fall of the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) , making an outline of German war planning possible for the first time , proving wrong much post-1918 writing .

From a 1999 article in War in History and in `` Inventing the Schlieffen Plan '' ( 2002 ) to `` The Real German War Plan , 1906–1914 '' ( 2011 ) , Terence Zuber engaged Participation in a debate with Terence Holmes , Annika Mombauer , Robert Foley , Gerhard Gross , Holger Herwig and others .

Zuber proposed Creating that the Schlieffen Plan was a myth concocted in the 1920s by partial writers , intent on exculpating themselves and proving that German war planning did not cause the First World War , a view which was supported by Hew Strachan .

The Moro River Campaign was an important battle Hostile_encounter of the Italian Campaign during the Second World War , fought Hostile_encounter between elements of the British Eighth Army and LXXVI Panzer Corps ( `` LXXVI Panzerkorps '' ) of the German 10th Army ( `` 10 .

The campaign was designed Creating as part of an offensive launched by General Sir Harold Alexander 's Allied 15th Army Group , with the intention of breaching the German Army 's Winter Line defensive system and advancing Cause_to_make_progress to Pescara—and eventually Rome .

Beginning on 4 December , four infantry divisions—one British , one Canadian , one Indian and one New Zealand ( which included an armoured brigade ) —and two armoured brigades ( one British and one Canadian ) of V Corps and XIII Corps attacked Attack heavily defended German positions along the Moro River , achieving Achieve several exploitable bridgeheads by 8 December .

After being held Defending at the Gully for 10 days , the Canadians succeeded in outflanking German defences , and forcing Hostile_encounter a German withdrawal to the Ortona–Orsogna Line .

After being held Defending at the Gully for 10 days , the Canadians succeeded in outflanking German defences , and forcing Hostile_encounter a German withdrawal to the Ortona–Orsogna Line .

By 26 December , strong German defences had stalled Hindering Canadian forces during the Battle of Ortona and British and New Zealand forces in Orsogna .

Local German roots are the foundation Coming_to_be of the celebration , and most of the festival 's venues use , the German word for place or square , at the ends Process_end of their names .

Local German roots are the foundation Coming_to_be of the celebration , and most of the festival 's venues use , the German word for place or square , at the ends Process_end of their names .

The French garrison held Defending out until the January 1871 armistice between France and the German Empire obligated Imposing_obligation French forces to abandon GiveUp the stronghold in February 1871 .

The fall of Strasbourg on 28 September 1870 allowed Preventing_or_letting the German army under August von Werder to move Motion south against Belfort .

German forces grew Expansion impatient with the length of the siege and on 27 January 1871 , General von Tresckow launched Process_start an attack on the city which was repulsed Defending and the siege Besieging operations resumed Process_start .

The flight was operated Being_in_operation by Germanwings , a low-cost carrier owned by the German airline Lufthansa .

The German police concluded Coming_to_believe that Duggan had committed Killing suicide after running Self_motion several kilometres from the apartment in which he had been staying Temporary_stay , then jumping Body_movement in front of early-morning traffic .

Arguing that the German police had not investigated Criminal_investigation the case thoroughly , Erica commissioned Criminal_investigation forensic reports Reporting which suggested the car accident Killing might have been staged Hold and that Duggan had died Death elsewhere .

France and Britain tried during the 1930s to draw Mussolini away from an alliance with Germany but the rapid German successes from 1938 to 1940 made Italian intervention on the German side inevitable by May 1940 .

France and Britain tried during the 1930s to draw Mussolini away from an alliance with Germany but the rapid German successes from 1938 to 1940 made Italian intervention on the German side inevitable by May 1940 .

In the immediate aftermath , `` Der Spiegel '' speculated Coming_to_believe that funding had been provided Supply by some of the $ 5 million ransom paid Commerce_pay by the West German government in exchange Exchange for the hostages of hijacked Terrorism Lufthansa Flight 649 in February 1972 .

Conference of Western Balkan States was a 28 August 2014 conference Social_event of heads of states and governments of Western Balkans region initiated Creating by German chancellor Angela Merkel .

The German chancellor announced Expressing_publicly intention to organize a conference on 7 June 2014 .

German historians do not accept this subdivision and regard the battle Hostile_encounter as a single campaign Military_operation lasting from July 1940 to June 1941 , including the Blitz .

The primary objective of the German forces Motion was to compel Convincing Britain to agree Agree_or_refuse_to_act to a negotiated peace settlement .

The German high command Control knew Know the difficulties of a seaborne attack Attack and its impracticality while the Royal Navy controlled Control the English Channel and the North Sea .

In September , RAF Bomber Command night raids Attack disrupted Hindering the German preparation of converted Change barges , and the Luftwaffe 's failure to overwhelm the RAF forced Causation Hitler to postpone Hindering and eventually cancel Process_end Operation Sea Lion .

Historian Stephen Bungay cited Statement Germany 's failure to destroy Destroying Britain 's air defences to force an armistice Sign_agreement ( or even outright surrender ) as the first major German defeat Conquering in World War Military_operation II and a crucial turning point in the conflict Hostile_encounter .

While Allied divisions were being diverted Removing from North Africa , the Italians reinforced Cause_change_of_strength their positions and were supported Supporting by the arrival Arriving of the German `` Afrika Korps '' under `` Generalleutnant '' Erwin Rommel .

Wavell defined Statement Operation Brevity 's main objectives as the acquisition of territory from which to launch a further planned Arranging offensive toward Tobruk , and the depletion of German and Italian forces in the region .

The strategically important Halfaya Pass was taken Conquering against stiff Italian opposition , and deeper inside Libya Fort Capuzzo was captured Conquering , but German counter-attacks Attack under Colonel Maximilian von Herff regained Getting the fort during the afternoon causing Causation heavy casualties Catastrophe amongst its defenders .

Gott—concerned that his forces were in danger of being caught Self_motion by German armour in open ground—conducted a staged withdrawal Escaping to the Halfaya Pass on 16 May , and Brevity was closed down Openness .

The importance of the Halfaya Pass as a safe supply route was highlighted Expressing_publicly to Rommel , and 11 days later it was recaptured Conquering during Operation Skorpion , a German counter-attack .

The German 2nd and 1st armies on the Somme managed Control a recovery Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale after the string of defeats in September , with fresh divisions to replace exhausted troops and more aircraft , artillery and ammunition diverted Removing from the battle Hostile_encounter at Verdun and stripped Removing from other parts of the Western Front .

The German flyers further reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the ability of the Anglo-French airmen to support Supporting the armies with artillery-observation and contact Connect patrols Patrolling in the rare periods of clear weather .

The German armies lost Earnings_and_losses much less ground and had fewer casualties in October than in September ( the costliest month of the battle Hostile_encounter ) but the proportion of casualties increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale from of the Anglo-French total .

The reinforcement Cause_change_of_strength of the Somme front with troops and equipment Supply from Verdun also contributed Causation to the German defeat Conquering in the First Offensive Battle Hostile_encounter of Verdun ( ) and the loss Earnings_and_losses of forts Douaumont and Vaux .