The Germans retained Preserving control Control of the high ground on Passchendaele Ridge opposite I and II Anzac corps , where the attack Attack was repulsed Defending or troops were forced Request by counter-attacks Attack to retire Escaping from most captured ground , as had happened on 9 October .

The Germans needed air superiority over southern England before the invasion and the `` Luftwaffe '' was to destroy Destroying the RAF , assume command of the skies and protect Defending the cross-channel invasion from the Royal Navy .

Fighter Command could not protect Defending adequately the convoys ; the Germans sank several British and neutral ships and shot down Use_firearm a considerable number of British fighters .

The Germans retired Escaping from north of the Orne River but did not stop Process_end sending Sending formations to the American front .

The Germans established Creating another defensive line along two ridges to the south of the city .

The Belgian garrison had no hope of victory without relief and despite the arrival Arriving of the Royal Naval Division beginning Process_start on 3 October , the Germans penetrated Attack the outer ring of forts .

On 9 October , the remaining Presence garrison surrendered Surrendering , the Germans occupied Control the city and some British and Belgian troops escaped Escaping to the Netherlands to the north and were interned Education_teaching for the duration of the war .

When their position collapsed Catastrophe , the Germans fell Motion_directional back from the Gustav Line to the Hitler Line some 10 miles to their rear .

The Germans fought Hostile_encounter a series of delaying actions , retired to the Trasimene Line , and then to the Gothic Line ( identified Check on German maps as the `` Green '' Line ) , north of the Arno River .

On 19 January 1871 , the day after Wilhelm I was proclaimed Statement German Emperor , Louis Jules Trochu attacked Attack the Germans west of Paris in Buzenval Park .

The Germans secured Getting the island by 16 October and the Russian Army evacuated Emptying Muhu on 20 October .

After two failed attempts , the Germans landed Self_motion on Hiiumaa on 12 October , capturing Conquering the island on the following day .

The Germans claimed Statement 20,000 prisoners and 100 guns captured Conquering during Operation Albion from 12 to 20 October .

On 18 September , the constitutional Government of Estonia captured Conquering the government buildings in Tallinn from the Germans and the city was abandoned GiveUp by the German forces Hostile_encounter by 22 September .

The Partisan main force was able to evade Escaping the Germans , infiltrate through the Italian cordon to the south and establish Creating itself around Foča .

An estimated 1,600 civilians – about 600 Germans and 1,000 mainly Soviet forced labourers – died Death .

Despite rapid repairs by the Germans , production did not return Arriving to normal until September .

By mid-December , the Allies finally reached Arriving the Rur and tried to capture Conquering its important dams , when the Germans launched their own offensive dubbed Name_conferral `` Wacht am Rhein '' .

When the Germans achieved Achieve victory in the Campaigns Military_operation in Central Norway , they began Process_start advancing Cause_to_make_progress north through Nordland to relieve the German forces isolated in Narvik .

To prevent Preventing_or_letting the Germans either relieving Narvik or capturing Conquering airfields within easy range , some small British and French units were deployed Arranging to the southern part of Nordland county early in May .

Hearing therefore that Strasburg , Brumath , Saverne , Seltz , Speyer , Worms , and Mayence were held Hold by the savages , who were living on their lands ( for the towns themselves they avoid Preventing_or_letting as if they were tombs surrounded by nets ) , he first of all seized Hold Brumath , but while he was still approaching Arriving it a band of Germans met Come_together him and offered Giving battle Hostile_encounter .

The redoubt was built Building after the end Process_end of the Battle of Albert ( 25–29 September 1914 ) , and as French and later British attacks on the Western Front became Becoming more formidable , the Germans added Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale fortifications and trench positions near the original lines around Hawthorn Ridge .

Hunter-Weston had ordered Arranging the mine to be fired early to protect Defending the advancing infantry from falling debris but this also gave Giving the Germans time to occupy Control the rear lip of the mine crater .

Poland went Self_motion undefeated to earn promotion , defeating Conquering the Swiss , and tying Connect the West Germans .

In the opening Openness months of the war , the Imperial Russian Army attempted an invasion Hostile_encounter of eastern Prussia in the northwestern theater , only to be beaten Bodily_harm back by the Germans after some initial success .

In Russian Poland , the Germans failed Earnings_and_losses to take Warsaw .

Several offensives against the Germans in 1916 failed Earnings_and_losses , including Lake Naroch Offensive and the Baranovichi Offensive .

The Romanian Army invaded Attack Transylvania and had initial successes , but was forced to stop Process_end and was pushed Motion back by the Germans and Austro-Hungarians when Bulgaria attacked Attack them in the south .

Following a cease-fire , a ploy was developed Coming_to_be by the Germans , nominally dissolving Dispersal into the West Russian Volunteer Army led by Gen. Pavel Bermont-Avalov .

This West Russian Volunteer Army included Cause_to_be_included Germans and former Russian prisoners of war Military_operation nominally allied Collaboration with the White Army in the Russian Civil War Military_operation , but both Bermondt-Avalov and von der Goltz were more interested Change_sentiment in eliminating Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the nationalists than fighting Hostile_encounter the Bolsheviks .

The immediate prelude of the civil war took place Process_start in Athens , on December 3 , 1944 , less than two months after the Germans had retreated Escaping from the area .

The Germans used Using mustard gas for the first time , supported Supporting by a mass of heavy artillery and captured Conquering part of the bridgehead over the Yser and annihilated two British battalions .

Also in June 1989 , Hungary began Process_start dismantling its section of the physical Iron Curtain , leading to an exodus of East Germans through Hungary , which destabilized East Germany .

After the offensive commenced Process_start on 20 September 1941 , the Partisans initially received Receiving assistance from local Chetnik formations in opposing Agree_or_refuse_to_act the Germans , but after weeks of disagreement Quarreling and low-level conflict Hostile_encounter between the two insurgent factions about how the resistance should proceed , the Chetniks launched an attack Attack on the Partisans in the towns of Užice and Požega on November 1 which resulted in the Chetniks being repulsed Defending .

The offensive Hostile_encounter began Process_start when the British VIII Corps , with three armoured divisions , attacked Attack to seize Conquering the German-held Bourguébus Ridge , the area between Bretteville-sur-Laize and Vimont and to inflict maximum casualties Catastrophe on the Germans .

While Goodwood failed Earnings_and_losses in its primary aim , it forced Causation the Germans to keep powerful formations opposite the British and Canadians on the eastern flank of the Normandy beachhead and Operation Cobra , the First US Army attack Attack which began Process_start on 25 July , caused Causation the weaker German defences opposite to collapse Destroying .

The Massacre of the Acqui Division , also known as the Cephalonia Massacre , was the mass execution Killing of the men of the Italian 33rd Infantry Division `` Acqui '' by the Germans on the island of Cephalonia , Greece in September 1943 , following the Italian armistice during the Second World War Hostile_encounter .

The Italians launched Process_start their invasion Attack of Greece in October 1940 , but they were pushed Motion back into Albania by November , and the Germans had to come to Motion their aid Assistance in April 1941 .

On 13 September the Italians of the 33rd `` Acqui '' Infantry Division resisted Defending , and fought Hostile_encounter the Germans on the island of Cephalonia .

This misled the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings .

Three counter-attacks were repulsed Defending by the Canadians and by 22 October , more than a thousand Germans had been taken Conquering prisoner .

During the winter , Partisans inflicted Bodily_harm heavy casualties on the Germans .

The Germans engaged 15,000 soldiers , the Independent State of Croatia about 21,000 soldiers , the Chetniks about 2,000 soldiers , and the Hungarians participated with 5 monitor ships .

King Albert I the Belgian Commander in Chief , saw Self_motion that the Germans had strengthened Cause_change_of_strength most of their positions south of Antwerp and reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the attack Attack to an operation Military_operation against , which had advanced Self_motion from Brussels towards Dendermonde .

The Russian Liberation Army , which had been fighting Hostile_encounter for the Germans , defected Escaping and supported Supporting the Czechs .

Violence against Germans , sanctioned by the Czechoslovak government , continued after the liberation , and was justified Justifying as revenge Revenge for the occupation or as a means to encourage Germans to flee Escaping .

Violence against Germans , sanctioned by the Czechoslovak government , continued after the liberation , and was justified Justifying as revenge Revenge for the occupation or as a means to encourage Germans to flee Escaping .

Forensic examination Scrutiny showed Presence they had been read and Ultra decrypts of German messages showed Presence that the Germans fell for the ruse .

By this time , with casualties mounting and supplies running Self_motion short , the parachute brigade commander , Gerald Lathbury , had relinquished Surrendering control Control of the bridge to the Germans .

The capture of Primosole Bridge did not lead to Causation the expected rapid advance Cause_to_make_progress , as by this time the Germans had gathered Come_together their forces and established Building a defensive line .