Sentence examples for wake of german from inspiring English sources

I cannot recall any fuss at all when the ex-GDR and its 14 million citizens, hardly a model for postwar democratic development, quietly joined the EU as full members in the wake of German unification in October 1990.

Shortcomings in such processes were most notoriously exposed in the wake of German doctor Daniel Ubani's accidental killing of 70-year-old David Gray in Cambridgeshire six years ago.

For example, in the wake of the German Idealist philosopher G.W.F.

He also encountered the mass graves left in the wake of the German army.

The fully fledged "Writer" is seen largely in terms of his visits, in the wake of "How German Is It," to Germany and Austria.

In the wake of these German triumphs against such vaunted opponents, several headlines have spoken of power shifts in European football.

Ahead of the US Federal Reserve minutes and the start of the US reporting season with Alcoa, investors remained concerned about prospects for the global economy in the wake of poor German data on Tuesday and the IMF cutting its growth forecasts.

By name".He was speaking on one of the many forgotten anniversaries of the 20th century: of the shortlived government of Otto Tief, which tried to re-establish the Estonian republic for a few days in September 1944 in the wake of the German retreat.

He was never one to boast about his exploits – his squadron comrade Chuck Yeager became more famous, particularly after becoming the first pilot to break the sound barrier – but Overstreet claimed to have screamed under the iron lattice base arch of the Eiffel Tower in the wake of a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane a few weeks before D-Day.

The novel tells the story of the Holocaust and Nazism through the eyes of one of the executioners, an SS Obersturmbannfürher on the Eastern Front who is attached to the Einsatzgruppen, the mobile execution squads whose task it was to kill Jews, partisans and other "undesirables" in the wake of the German advance.

Not until 1942 did the ASO squadrons get the recognition needed, in the wake of the German Operation Cerberus.