Sentence examples for german capability from inspiring English sources

Being put down where we were, with surprise gone and the opposition alerted, and given the German capability for a swift and violent response to any threat to what really mattered, they could expect their hardest fighting and worst casualties, not in defence of the final perimeter, but in trying to get there".

"Köhler made the point that German military capability was relevant to German interests, including German economic interests," Mr. MacShane said.

Bomber Command remained unaware of the German homing capability for some six months, and many bomber crews paid for this oversight with their lives.

But he soon joined the war effort as a civilian working in London with a team of scientists assigned to assess German radar capabilities.

They attacked V1 and V2 production sites on the island of Peenemünde in the North Sea with the objective of depleting the Germans' offensive capability.

The Germans were concerned with developments in Allied radar-directed fire control, which allowed British battleships to fire with great accuracy in the darkness; German radar capabilities lagged behind those of their opponents.

Functional capacity was assessed with the Osnabruck Work Capabilities Profile (German: Osnabrücker Arbeitsfähigkeiten Profil, O-AFP; [ 39]), a 30-item inventory developed specifically for the purpose of assessing behaviour at work for persons with severe and persistent mental illness.

Hausmann said that the average German "has no more capabilities than those which chance has glued on the outside of his skull; his brain remains empty".

However, in a country-by-country survey of its European partners, GCHQ officials expressed admiration for the technical capabilities of German intelligence to do the same thing.

While Allied leaders expressed mixed feelings on Patton's capabilities, the German High Command was noted to have more respect for him than for any other Allied commander after 1943.

Among reports commissioned from the OSS were assessments of German industry and war-making capability and a psychological profile of German dictator Adolf Hitler that concluded that he would likely commit suicide should Germany be defeated.