Two days later the Germans began Process_start another gas attack but the wind turned Becoming and blew the gas back over the German lines .

It was the first and only offensive Attack launched Process_start solely by the United States Army in World War Military_operation I , and the attack Attack caught Getting the Germans in the process of retreating Escaping .

Three days prior , VVKJ Major Vladimir Kren had defected Escaping to the Germans , disclosing Reveal_secret the locations Placing of multiple military assets , as well as elucidating the VVKJ 's codes .

In 1979 , P. M. H. Bell wrote Writing that `` The times were desperate ; invasion Attack seemed imminent ; and the British government simply could not afford to risk Risk the Germans seizing Getting control Control of the French fleet ...

The Germans , led by Fabien I , Burgrave of Dohna , wanted to fight Hostile_encounter against the Duke of Guise , in order to win Getting a victory like Coutras .

But at the Battle of Vimory , Guise took Bringing the Germans by surprise , and routed them .

Finally , during and after the final stages of the war , Yugoslav authorities and Partisan troops carried out reprisals , including the deportation of the Danube Swabian population , forced Causation marches and executions of thousands of captured soldiers and civilians ( predominantly Croats associated Collaboration with the NDH , but also Slovenes and others ) fleeing Escaping their advance ( the Bleiburg repatriations ) , atrocities against the Italian population in Istria ( the Foibe massacres ) and purges against Serbs , Hungarians and Germans associated Collaboration with the fascist forces .

Operation Military_operation Peppermint was the codename given Giving during World War II to preparations by the Manhattan Project and the European Theater of Operations United States Army ( ETOUSA ) to counter the danger that the Germans might disrupt the June 1944 Normandy landings with radioactive poisons .

The equipment was held Defending in readiness , but the preparations were not needed , because the Germans had not developed Coming_to_be such weapons .

Slovak military forces advanced Cause_to_make_progress alongside the Germans in northern Slovakia .

After the mid-September Polish defeat Conquering in the Battle of the Bzura , the Germans gained Getting an undisputed advantage .

The French attacked Attack Vimy Ridge and the British attacked Attack further north in the Battle of Aubers Ridge ( 9 May ) and the Battle of Festubert The battle was fought Hostile_encounter during the German offensive of the Second Battle of Ypres which the Germans ended to reinforce the Artois front .

The British attacks at Festubert forced the Germans back and diverted Removing reserves from the French but the French gained Getting little more ground , despite firing double the amount of artillery ammunition , at the cost of many casualties to both sides .

The Germans had wired Connect the bridge with about of demolition charges .

The GIs ' actions prevented Preventing_or_letting the Germans from regrouping Cause_to_amalgamate east of the Rhine and consolidating Cause_change_of_strength their positions Placing .

When the Germans sent Sending a squad of seven naval demolition swimmers wearing Italian underwater breathing Breathing apparatus , the Americans were ready GetReady .

The Germans justified Justifying these genocides Killing on the basis of Nazi racial theory , which regarded Poles and other Slavic peoples as racially inferior `` Untermenschen '' and depicted Create_artwork Jews as a constant threat Warning .

By 1942 , the Nazi Germans were implementing their plan Arranging to kill Killing every Jew in German-occupied Europe , and had also developed Creating plans Arranging to eliminate Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the Polish people through mass murder Killing , ethnic cleansing , enslavement and extermination through labor , and assimilation into German identity of a small minority of Poles deemed Coming_to_believe racially valuable .

During World War II , the Germans not only murdered Killing millions of Poles ( Jewish and otherwise ) , but ethnically cleansed Emptying millions more through forced Hostile_encounter deportation to make room for “ racially superior ” German settlers ( see Generalplan Ost and Lebensraum ) .

On the Western Front the Allies had been fighting Hostile_encounter in Germany with campaigns against the Siegfried Line since the Battle of Aachen and the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in late 1944 and by January 1945 had pushed the Germans back to their starting points during the Battle of the Bulge .

The Germans waited Temporary_stay for an opportunity to begin Process_start the intruder operation and one presented Presence itself on the night of the 3/4 March 1945 when Bomber Command attacked Attack targets in western Germany .

The operation stemmed Creating from Nazi Germany 's ideological aim of conquering Conquering the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans ( ) , and to also use Using some Slavs as a slave labour force for the Axis war effort and to annihilate Killing the rest according to Generalplan Ost , and to acquire Getting the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories .

The Red Army absorbed Ingestion the Wehrmacht 's strongest blows and forced Causation the Germans into a war of attrition for which they were unprepared Response .

Wurst Farm was at the lower end of Gravenstafel Ridge and several British attacks Attack in the area since 31 July had been repulsed Defending by the Germans .

The British Third and First armies achieved Achieve the deepest advance since trench warfare began Process_start , along the Scarpe river in the Battle of Arras , which inflicted Causation many losses on the Germans , attracted reserves and captured Conquering Vimy Ridge to the north .

The main French offensive on the Aisne began Process_start on 16 April and also achieved Achieve considerable tactical success but the attempt to force Causation a strategically decisive battle on the Germans was a costly failure and by 25 April the main offensive had been suspended Process_end .

In late October , the French conducted Action the Battle of La Malmaison ( 23–27 October ) , a limited-objective attack on the west end of the Chemin-des-Dames , which forced Causation the Germans to abandon GiveUp their remaining positions on Chemin des Dames and retire Escaping across the Ailette valley .

Australia duly topped Placing the group by defeating Earnings_and_losses everybody except the Germans , with whom they drew Motion : the Germans also finished Process_end the group undefeated to qualify Getting comfortably in second place , though they also drew Motion with Spain and India .

Australia duly topped Placing the group by defeating Earnings_and_losses everybody except the Germans , with whom they drew Motion : the Germans also finished Process_end the group undefeated to qualify Getting comfortably in second place , though they also drew Motion with Spain and India .

A replay Competition of the semi-final of the 1984 Olympic tournament , won 1-0 by the Germans , meant that the English had a score to settle Response .

In the second half , the Germans found Know their form , equalising from a penalty corner , and then going Motion into the lead with a smart strike Body_movement from their captain , Heiner Dopp .

Several times they came Arriving close from both open play and penalty corners : shots Motion whizzed past the post , crosses were desperately intercepted Preventing_or_letting , the keeper himself made Action a few useful saves - but the Germans were themselves dangerous on the breakaway .

The Soviets made Action a slightly better fist of the third-place play-off against the Germans , but in the end it was the Germans who clinched Getting third place .

The Soviets made Action a slightly better fist of the third-place play-off against the Germans , but in the end it was the Germans who clinched Getting third place .

The Germans were unable to mount Process_start a significant rescue effort .

The Allies captured Conquering 897 men , 653 Germans and Italians are thought to have escaped Escaping to Italy and an unknown number drowned .

A second attempt by the Germans on 17 June caused Causation about the same number of gas casualties Bodily_harm but the British again easily repulsed Defending German patrols Patrolling .

In 1916 , the Battle Hostile_encounter of Verdun had been a costly failure Earnings_and_losses for the Germans and the Anglo-French Battle of the Somme had forced a defensive Defending battle Hostile_encounter on the Germans , leaving Departing the western armies ( ) exhausted Expend_resource .

In 1916 , the Battle Hostile_encounter of Verdun had been a costly failure Earnings_and_losses for the Germans and the Anglo-French Battle of the Somme had forced a defensive Defending battle Hostile_encounter on the Germans , leaving Departing the western armies ( ) exhausted Expend_resource .

On the Eastern Front , the Brusilov Offensive had inflicted Causation huge losses Earnings_and_losses on the Austro-Hungarian armies in Russia and forced the Germans to take over more of the front .

By destroying Destroying the infrastructure and demolishing Destroying civilian buildings Building in the salient before a withdrawal Escaping , the Germans could dislocate Placing Franco-British offensive preparations by forcing Hostile_encounter them to advance Self_motion into a wasteland .

By the beginning Process_start of 1917 , the strategic outlook for the Germans made Manufacturing a retirement inevitable .

News of the demolitions Destroying and the deplorable condition of French civilians left GiveUp behind by the Germans were serious blows Confronting_problem to German prestige in neutral countries .

Labour was transferred Military_operation south in February 1917 to work Being_in_operation on the from La Fère to Rethel and on the forward positions Placing on the Aisne front , which the Germans knew Know were due to be attacked Attack by the French .

To reach Arriving the Seine , the division had to cross Motion_directional three rivers that had been flooded by the Germans , and had only two roads available to them .

After the Battle Hostile_encounter of Flers–Courcelette on 22 September , the Anglo-French armies tried to press Motion their advantage with several smaller attacks Attack in quick succession , rather than pause Process_end to regroup Cause_to_amalgamate and give Giving the Germans time to recover Recovering .

The Germans called Request for a truce which , after some misunderstanding , led to Causation an unconditional surrender of the garrison .

The Arras Offensive Attack of 1917 ended Process_end with the Germans in possession of a fortified Cause_change_of_strength wood to the west of Oppy , Pas-de-Calais , which overlooked British positions .

that up to 20,000 Germans living in Poland belonged to organizations involved Cause_to_be_included in various forms of subversion. < ref name= '' polityka.pl/historia '' > < /ref > Operation Tannenberg was followed by the `` Intelligenzaktion '' , a second phase of the `` Unternehmen Tannenberg '' directed by Heydrich 's `` Sonderreferat '' from Berlin , which lasted until January 1940 .

From the Soviet point of view , the operation was a complete Process_end success Achieve , as both the Germans and the Poles loyal to the London government suffered Bodily_harm a defeat .