Sentence examples for german conquest from inspiring English sources

Stephen also opened the country to strong foreign influences, while saving it from German conquest.

Many bishops played important roles in defending the population during the German conquest.

In February 1941, however, Wavell had to send almost 60,000 of his troops overseas to try to prevent the German conquest of Greece and Crete.

Upon the German conquest of Poland in 1939, Hitler ordered the SS to kill a large proportion of the Polish intelligentsia.

German conquest began with the capture by the German king Henry I the Fowler (reigned 919 936) of Branibor (Brennabor, or Brennaburg), capital of the Slavic Havelli.

After France's failure to interrupt the German conquest of Poland, the western powers and the Germans were so inactive with regard to land operations that journalists began to speak derisively, over the next six months, of the "phony war".

Sigebert I received the kingdom of Reims, extended to include the new German conquests; a portion of the Massif Central (Auvergne) and the Provençal territory (Marseille) were added to his share.

Some of the pieces, like "The Occupation" about German conquests in World War II, are inspired by obvious choices, but the long negligee that Mr. Mesches has painted in like a ghost image along with the German officers is unexpected and provocative.

The Old Prussian language also belonged to the Baltic group but was supplanted by German through conquest and immigration.

This time the victims of German and Soviet conquest were the victimisers.

(For all his moments of self-seriousness, Herzog enjoys poking fun at his manly escapades; a memoir about the making of "Fitzcarraldo," which was recently published in German, is titled "Conquest of the Useless").