And in the fiery skies above Russia, women drop bombs and fly fighter planes in aerial combat against German pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the German army invaded and conquered Poland in September 1939, more than three million additional Jews came under Nazi control. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Karl von Frisch, a German, was fascinated by honey bees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was called a Bescheinigung, a document stating that my father was officially employed by a German company. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Experts now believe that the FBI-run station likely gave the Germans better intelligence than they got from their actual spies in South America during the entire rest of the war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"I don't think it's so much THAT," argued Lucille skeptically; "it's more that he was a German spy during the war." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s with the police. The Germans. I’m supposed to be there, and...you know they don’t care anything about my job.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So did the German boat, both rowing at over forty now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When messages were lined up properly, and a code breaker made enough good guesses, German words would eventually appear. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The announcer urges German listeners to find others to tune in and reminds them to turn the dial so that they won't give themselves away, if caught. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But his general gist seemed to be close to his lordship's, concluding with a call for a freezing of German reparation payments and the withdrawal of French troops from the Ruhr region. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

After May 1940 the good times were few and far between: first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They saw a small German bakery and went in the open door. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans were more than two years behind. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This alarmed the Nazi leaders, who worried that the damages would bankrupt the German insurance companies. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lubek takes over my machines, and I run like German dogs are snapping at my heels. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A woman behind the ticket counter says the Germans carry fog pills and wear rocket belts; their uniforms, she whispers, are made of a special cloth stronger than steel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The very strange situation was that by coming nearer and nearer to the solution,” reflected the promising young German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg, “the paradoxes became worse and worse.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It's time to think bigger, to escalate the pamphlet campaign, to enlarge his circle so that more Germans learn the truth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The Germans could destroy all of London if they succeed,” Wilson said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Specifically, nothing was to be published that was “calculated to weaken the power of the Reich at home or abroad, the community will of the German people, its military spirit, or its culture and economy.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Califor-nia Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, and Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And our school always seemed to attract German exchange students, and teachers who enjoyed dressing up as Nazis. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Germans had launched new attacks in France, between the Somme and Arve rivers and were now claiming to have taken ninety thousand prisoners. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

This was a chilling clue—the Germans were grabbing all the uranium they could get. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an effort to prevent Nazis from ever coming to power again, the Allies ordered German civilian courts to hold “de-Nazification” trials to identify ardent Nazis. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He gives Nana a silk scarf and a bag of her favorite licorice from the base commissary—it’s German. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were stories in the paper of German parachutists disguised as nurses and nuns, spreading out through the cities and infiltrating the population. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As a kid during World War II, he’d sat in movie theaters, horrified by newsreel images of the smoking rubble of European cities that had been flattened by German bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At last the German attack planes flew away again, leaving the women of the 46th to repair the damage and help their friends who had been wounded. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They were struggling to hold back vicious German shepherds on leashes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Why were no German Americans evacuated, it was asked, or Americans of Italian descent? Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are eighty of you in the car,” the German officer added. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I follow far behind. You don’t see me,” she said in her broken German. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He’s ushered into a courtyard encircled with razor wire, where eight or nine other Germans sit in their high boots holding battered canteens, one dressed in women’s clothes in which he apparently tried to desert. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Boy, you don’t understand. The Germans aren’t going to solve the problem. Hitler’s going to create more,” said the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t heard that weird accent from him since the first day, but I knew he and Jetta had been speaking German. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The doctor lets go of the knob and steps through the door to answer him, yelling German that probably means we’re hurrying, or the girl is getting her hat, or something like that. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Another always signed the messages with the word SCHOEN, the code name of the German ambassador to Chile. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jack learned that most kapos had been in German prisons before the war for such crimes as murder or theft. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He also promises to restore greatness to Germany, and he calls upon the German people to join in. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

For so long, the only things we had to read were German signs and posters, with those awful caricatures of imaginary Jews. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The world record is twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds, and this belongs to a German competitive breath holder. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Here. And after it shut we went over to that other café. The old man there speaks German and English." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Over the first hill, they saw an amazing sight: Abandoned motorcycles, trucks, and even guns littered the road, as though the Germans had dropped everything and started running. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the hall, outside the apartment door, was a lavatory we shared with our neighbors—a childless German couple called the Schatzmans, the landlord told us. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It is a direct translation of her surname, Engel, from the German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to all the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a month after that, German bombs fell again on Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The head of my new block was a German Jew, small with piercing eyes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discovered in the mid-1920s by German physicist Wolfgang Pauli, the exclusion principle states, roughly, that no two things can be in the same place at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The East German government referred to the structure as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart"; it was bordered by minefields and a no-man's-land known as the "death strip." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Right. The East German hit her in the eye going over the first hurdle. Betty finished fourth in her heat and didn’t qualify to go on.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them just huddled on the ground on their hands and knees, even if the Germans or the kapos beat them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other guards occasionally walked by with their German shepherds, but the night was otherwise uneventful. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The morning quiet was broken by the great ringing of bells from every church and steeple in Nuremberg, a medieval German city on the northern edge of the Bavarian Alps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some girl was on it, though, talking in German. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a new man in Germany too, brought into power in January by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, a group with a reputation for thuggish behavior. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes or so later came the sound of another car and I opened the door to Herr Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador, by now no stranger to Darlington Hall. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

And, in exchange for coffee or chocolate or tobacco, the Germans gave them paint and lumber and nails and cloth for fixing things up. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice was familiar, but it took me a moment to pair it to a name, because the only time I had heard Raizel speak was in Yiddish or German. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of the most impressive theories of the origin of cancer cells was developed by a German biochemist, Professor Otto Warburg of the Max Planck Institute of Cell Physiology. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The German officials didn't check to see if it was true. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Not all of them. Besides, I want to read a lot of other things in German that haven’t been translated yet. What’s the matter with you? You’ve got the funniest look on your face.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I only spoke German before, though I sang in many other languages. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They knew Haukelid had been battling the Germans in Norway and had barely gotten out alive. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the Agency had no high-level agents in East Germany, Rolph's cable was America's only official source of information about the impending collapse of the East German communist state. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And we crawled through the crypt so the Germans would not see us through the windows, because they were looking for us still. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The rest must be gone, taken by the Germans or in hiding or worse. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the word “German,” Alexander sat up straight. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“The war’s not over yet. The Germans are driving toward Antwerp.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At the same time, Dasch figured he would be helping the German people who wanted to be free from the Nazi regime. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

So they can give a nice, unblemished apartment to some nice German officer and his law-abiding wife with clean hair and mended stockings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It isn’t pronounced either Bear or Beer, as people will say it, but something between the two, as only Germans can give it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

After midnight on June 6, 1944, barely a week after the SS-HJ was officially activated, the Germans received word that Allied paratroopers and gliders had landed in Normandy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

To throw in the face of the father who was so ambitious for presidents and geniuses in the family, the German nobody turned out to be a world-class chemist. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The race against the Germans to create the bomb first. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Crouched next to her, in the light of the flickering candle and one oil lamp, was the small German speaking wireless operator. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In desperation, they resorted to tactics such as strapping small bombs to dogs’ backs and sending them to blow up German tanks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Maddie was going off duty by the time the ambulance men had finished hurriedly patching up the German pilot and brought him into the ground floor office of the control tower. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I longed to speak Lithuanian instead of German. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was no way to know what German scientists were up to, or how far ahead they might already be. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goebbels had his sights set on far more than controlling the German press, however. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“The Germans were excellent at deception, at keeping us in the dark,” said Ernest Light, a Hungarian Jew who was twenty-three when he was deported with his family. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every year that same number of Europeans—Irish and Germans mostly, fleeing famine and political unpleasantness—streamed into the harbors of Boston, New York, Philadelphia. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In an emergency they are supposed to say a code word, MAMAN, and speak directly to me in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

That same day, similar riots broke out in cities all over Germany and in nearby Austria, where a large number of ethnic Germans lived. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My only hope is that it will never occur to these German doctors that I might walk through the door of my house right before curfew with a Jew carrying my shopping. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And of course the whole conversation was carried on in German, because not only do they speak it at home with their mother, but as their cousin I’m expected to understand it too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Given the existential threat posed by a German bomb, few harbored any qualms about the Allies using theirs first. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My mother spoke German during her childhood in America and was stoned for it during the First World War by the children at school. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

With 300 meters to go, the bow of the American boat pulled roughly even with the German and Italian bows. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On August 24, 1940, the Germans attacked London, the capital city of Britain. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler also spread hate by promoting the belief that Germans were a superior race of humans called Aryans. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

His accent was somewhere between Italian and German, which likely meant he came from Lombardy. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But the Germans were our masters now, until our allies the British and the French arrived to drive them out. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A short time after Duchess died, our father came home with a German shepherd puppy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Russian forces stopped the German advance just short of Moscow, but the two massive armies were still slugging it out along a battlefront stretching 1,500 miles from north to south. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

An assassination attempt has been made on Hitler’s life, and for once not by Jewish Communists or English capitalists, but by a German general who’s not only a count, but young as well. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Once, during a performance when she was singing in German, she forgot some words and improvised others instead. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

By September 1940 it became clear that the German invasion of the United Kingdom was not going to happen. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Hears the German limp out of her room and go down the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He's a gentleman, and he fought a war with the Germans, and it's his instinct to offer generosity and friendship to a defeated foe. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A German attack on Poland, they warned, would mean war with Britain and France. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said words in German that were foreign but ugly and spit on the ground at my feet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“But Italy was occupied by the Germans and is now being occupied by us. You don’t call that doing very well, do you?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Next came the antitank gunner, clumsy and dense, warning Germans away with a Colt .45 automatic in one hand and a trench knife in the other. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For every one German plane there come at least five English and American. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the German flag bearer carried the swastika past him, he saluted and then touched his heart with his right hand, as Riefenstahl’s cameras rolled. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Christ! Brodatt, stay on the phone. Davenport, you run to the wireless station; perhaps one of those girls can help. Get me a German speaker! Now!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Over and over again, ordinary Germans greeted them by extending their right hands palms down and shouting, “Heil Hitler!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There are no plaques for the Germans who died here. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had needed something that would explain Freud’s technical terminology, that would clarify the various shades of meaning the German words had—and he had found this dictionary of psychological terms. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"We can't blame God for Hitler. The German people gave us Hitler, when they voted Nazis into office. Like it or not, he's our Führer." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

With their own eyes, the German people saw what happened to Jewish families like the Lewyns. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, German soldiers lashed flat train cars carrying forty barrels of heavy water to the deck of the Hydro. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few hours the fires will burn, and then the Germans will swarm like ants back to their positions and fight for another day. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both were tormented by the same question: What had German scientists told Hitler about the possibility of building atomic bombs? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagines billows of smoke as the brave German infantry attack with all their might. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was to be a testament to German ingenuity, to its cultural superiority, and to its growing power. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Emilia was inconsolable, turning in all directions to find the German. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As do black people toasting their cognac and German beers, passing their blunts and debating MCs. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When forced to hand over our radio to the Nazis, we silently repeated the words; whenever a German was near, we whispered to ourselves, "If this is the worst..." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

By that time German officers and soldiers were fleeing, doing their utmost to avoid capture by the rapidly approaching Soviet army. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Though he might not have recognised the label, Bach’s faith falls within the movement known as German Pietism, which reached its high-water mark in his lifetime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The British hospital was a big villa built by Germans before the war. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There are fifteen or sixteen others with me, men and women looking as lost as I am, gathered around a desk with the inevitable German and the inevitable stack of folders and forms. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All of us wanted to believe the bravery of our soldiers could somehow defeat the mighty German military with all its planes and tanks. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The fourth side was a twenty-foot-high wall with a catwalk patrolled by guards with German shepherds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all in German, and my head ached too much now to attempt reading it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I was telling my brother how I could have taken Chinese or German but that I decided to stick with Spanish, and he couldn’t believe it.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The next day she skipped an official lunch at the Administration Building and again dined unannounced at the German Village. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Schoenberg was so sure his new dodecaphonic system would take off that he declared triumphantly, ‘I have made a discovery which will ensure the supremacy of German music for the next hundred years.’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When Ethel unwrapped the package right at the table it was a big bottle of Hoyt’s German, enough to keep her smelling sweet for a long time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the German people to learn the virtues of democracy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think she’s going to speak more German, but she switches easily to English. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

"Oh, I can read a bit of French, I guess, and I've always wanted to learn German." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they also had to deliver urgent messages, or provide a fighter escort for important officials who needed protection in case they encountered armed German aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

While she spoke with a throaty German accent until her death, he had the choppy spouting speech of the West Indians. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, perhaps more important for Hitler, it made him look like he was saving Germany, compelling many Germans, including Dasch, to return. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Just as a German rifle butt had been about to crush Louie’s head, the German army’s commander in chief had halted the attack, and Louie had talked the general into sparing his life. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then they hear his accent, notice the German tunic beneath the antique shirt, and decide they have a spy, a fabulous catch. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The German nurse whom Dad had employed was scornful. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a terrible sin to buy anything with a German or Japanese label, no matter if it cost only a nickel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We don’t care that the German soldier walking down the street is now being searched by the Russians, his hands on his head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When they killed him Olive declared war on the German empire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because both my brother and I could speak German and because the full villainy of the Germans was not yet evident, we brazenly questioned every German we thought might know something. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We listen to Dotty and wonder what all this has to do with the state of the world with the Germans marching everywhere and bombing everything that stands. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

German forces captured Norway and Denmark in April 1940, then turned against France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, forcing all three to surrender within a month. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door of the German soldiers’ barracks opened and a soldier stepped out with a rifle in one hand, a flashlight in the other. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the ocean, at a German listening post, an erfasser, or a radio monitor, listened to the news and translated it from English to German. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Now the Germans could only get supplies by air, and the Soviets shot down their lumbering transport planes the second they got anywhere near their troops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“If he ever starts talking with a German accent, call me.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Apart from all the German, their personal libraries are similar. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stalingrad, the Russian city that has been under attack for three months, still hasn’t fallen into German hands. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She was fluent in English, German, Swahili, and her family’s local language, called Luo. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“The brother and sister from World War Two who wrote all those pamphlets urging other German college students to resist the Nazis?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"Think about it—if more Germans spoke out, leaders like Hitler wouldn't be allowed to lie and say 'I want peace' and then start a war." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

If the right type of propaganda was directed at the German people, he believed the Nazi regime could be overthrown. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In 1896 he gave up his German citizenship to avoid military conscription and entered the Zurich Polytechnic Institute on a four-year course designed to churn out high school science teachers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The new German asked him why he had stolen the flag. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then Alfonso and German left one Saturday with the idea of coming back on Monday, but nothing more was ever heard of them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Swiss jumped out to an early lead but were soon overtaken by the German boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“This German punched her right here. Knocked her off her balance. You could see it on the replay.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A German measured Billy’s upper right arm with his thumb and forefinger, asked a companion what sort of an army would send a weakling like that to the front. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood at the top of the stairs while German planes flew back and forth, and I knew I was on my own, that I couldn’t count on others for support. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Or would the Germans take that away, too? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They had been behind German lines before many times—living like woods creatures, living from moment to moment in useful terror, thinking brainlessly with their spinal cords. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Settling in Berlin, she roomed with an elderly couple who spoke only German, devoted herself to an intensive study of the language, and began vocal studies with Kurt Johnen, one of the city’s best-known teachers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Aware that German people were listening, the British Broadcasting Corporation, or the BBC, broadcast the news in the German language. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And the war—now the Germans were in Lithuania. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I am beginning to think it was one of her less clever ideas to call herself Kitty' Hawk in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Like so many other German cities, it had been heavily bombed by Allied forces during the war. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unaccustomed to democracy, many Germans had little faith in their president and elected Reichstag. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they were still so close to German territory that they were afraid they’d be blown back over the front lines if they tried to use their parachutes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Those Finnish seal puppies, those German flounders—you don’t see them much anymore. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even so, everyone understood that he was working for the German government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He shouted at the whole room in a broken mix of German and Polish. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Borisov was a town the 125th had liberated from the Germans in Belorussia. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The heavy water equipment had been destroyed, dealing a serious blow to German bomb research. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Germans may have beaten us to it.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

While the British colonel set Lazzaro’s broken arm and mixed plaster for the cast, the German major translated out loud passages from Howard W. Campbell, Jr.’s monograph. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must tell you this amusing story, the wife of an important business associate gave her an Old German bisque Doll dressed in a Hulu Grass skirt... The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then two astronomers—the German, Johannes Kepler, and the Italian, Galileo Galilei—started publicly to support the Copernican theory, despite the fact that the orbits it predicted did not quite match the ones observed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The German army was so far superior to ours that we didn’t have a chance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Music and laughter and the sweet smell of German beer poured from the rathskeller in the building’s basement. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the day we were to be transferred, the Germans ordered us to line up in groups according to our work assignments. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Not many German artists painted domestic scenes at the time; this is from Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were journals in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, and even one collection in Chinese. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

If Grandmother never lost her German accent, she also never lost her taste for the thick black German Brot, which we bought unsliced. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the German doctor who signed my letter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the law would forbid Germans from listening to foreign news or other “impure” or “un-German” broadcasts. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then, from behind the group came his voice: “Careful, Klaus, you could sell that information,” said the German. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Germans arrived to search the plane and crash site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

British planes meant the Allies were advancing, taking the fight to the Germans. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he returned to Germany after being deported, he was made a lieutenant and worked in the Abwehr, the Intelligence Department of the German Army. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

German soldiers blindfolded and handcuffed the prisoners and shot them in the head. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unassumingly entitled “Experiments in Plant Hybridization” and published in a scarcely read journal in 1866, the paper was written in dense German and packed with the kind of mathematical tables that Darwin particularly despised. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

‘That sounds like a sort of German name.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I dragged the dead German into a wooded thicket and covered him with snow. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was pleased to hear good Polish, even if it was with a German accent. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One German with a pistol stayed with me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In English I can fake an Orkney accent better than a German one, so we went with that when I was operational—obscurely difficult to identify. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Don't the Germans have a right to know the whole truth? The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Miles whipped around, yelling at them in rapid German. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was only after he’d killed four Germans that Kabuo saw how right they were, how they had seen deeply into his heart with the clarity of older people. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He was a member of the Imperial German Academy. I met him in Berlin. I was sure he was German.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a Pennsylvania Dutch accent peppered with German expressions that he didn’t understand and, typically, laughed at. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We knew the Germans hated the Poles and wanted our land. Our attitude was, Let ’em come! Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans had taken the mirror, but I didn’t need it to know I looked silly. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If it’s that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She was living in a hotel for women in Greenwich Village, working as a waitress in a German restaurant, and taking art classes and even fencing lessons. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I fell asleep and dreamed there was a German soldier battering at the trapdoor. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

From miles away comes the thunder of big guns, and still the German transport trains are being hit, bending tracks and flipping cattle cars and maiming the fuhrer’s soldiers and filling his officers with fury. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They represented the German’s deadly planes flying overhead. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, from the dark sky came a yellow flare, a signal from the German plane to let the gunners on the ground know he was up there. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There is even talk here of outlawing speaking any German at all. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had been the Colonel's batman in the war, he explained; they had been in Belgium together when the Germans had invaded and they had been together again for the Allied landing. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 1943, these women were all fighting in combat against the German invaders. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At night, German searchlights glided across the black skies. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the Germans were boys in their early teens. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have four weeks to reconnoiter the plant, get information on the German guards, and check on the landing site.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Poulsson needed to know was that the Germans had rapidly increased production of heavy water at Vemork since taking over Norway. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted the Germans to know they were soldiers on an official Allied mission—that way, hopefully, the Germans wouldn’t retaliate against Norwegian civilians in nearby towns. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the market square, with a guard of SS and German soldiers, and half of Przemyśl there to watch him die. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The English, despite their bluff, are certainly no more to blame for the war than all the other countries, large and small, that are now occupied by the Germans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"Your friend is a good German who only wants to do his duty." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The reply was that without another word the German troops crossed the Polish frontier this morning at dawn and are since reported to be bombing open towns. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Germans had stormed in like lightning in a single month in 1941: it took the Soviet Union three and a half years to push them out again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The ditches prevented enemy tanks from entering German territory. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Marriage between a pure German and one-quarter Jew is still permissible, you see?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mary Gearhart, a small, pleasant woman, worked at a number of restaurants before finding a job in a German hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That was the week Danny began to read Freud in German. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I pictured the man as a raging demon, slashing with his pen, consumed with hate, denouncing everything American, extolling everything European or German, laughing at the weaknesses of people, mocking God, authority. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans laughed as they threw his body down in front of us for everyone to see. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wireless operator stared at the coded abbreviations, then spoke into the headset, giving orders in German with confident calm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“When the Germans kick the Soviets out of Lithuania, we’ll leave you here on the tracks so we don’t have to put up with you anymore.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

German tanks had crossed the border into Poland; the Luftwaffe, the German air force, had attacked a Polish border town, and the invasion of Poland by the Germans had begun. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

"I didn't want the Germans to have one more list of all the students who were left. Not that it matters. They find everyone anyway." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Velutha was fourteen when Johann Klein, a German carpenter from a carpenter’s guild in Bavaria, came to Kottayam and spent three years with the Christian Mission Society, conducting a workshop with local carpenters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giacomo Meyerbeer and Jacques Offenbach - the noms de plume, in fact, of two German Jews originally named Jacob - took the Paris opera world by storm in the 1830s and ’40s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building alone had ten, plus two large restaurants, one German, the other French. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Some things are the same everywhere, I suppose, because even in German, it’s easy to see that the handsome SS man is now being teased by his friends. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She flew straight at the nearest German bomber and filled it with gunfire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But then, of course, we English also fought the Germans long and hard.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Party officials and important Germans would also share cabins. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But Helmuth was insistent, saying, “I just want the German people to think. Don’t you think everybody in Hamburg is entitled to know the truth? They don’t all have a radio.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke in German, but with an accent. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The other pilot’s sharp thinking probably stopped the exploding German shells from hitting Zhenya’s plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Any student refusing to sign will be sent to a German labor camp. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Grandfather, on the other hand, was busy, for he was ordered to change all the signs in town from Polish to German. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder, who was supposed to be the frog? Her? Or the Germans?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As he resumed his studies, Farmer discovered the work of a little-known German physician, biologist, philosopher, anthropologist, and politician—a polymath—named Rudolf Virchow. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

When the Germans launched their surprise attack on June 22, 1941, Marina, too, tried to sign up to fight at the front. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When we come home, Adria and I will change into shorts and race around the house with our four German shepherds, whose doggie beds are lined up in the hallway right outside my bedroom door. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The German army’s blockade of the city of Leningrad, which had begun on September 8, 1941, finally ended in its defeat there on January 27, 1944. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“There’s a fisherman who claims to have seen a German submarine just off Amity Harbor. A periscope—he followed it for half a mile. Do you think that can be true?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She thought it was terrible, what the Germans had done to Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Every morning it’s the same: the Americans ever closer, the Germans fraying at the seams. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Impulsively I stepped in front of the line, within two steps of a German guard. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Nearly three months later, the German army was defeated by the Russians at Stalingrad. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The men could be their Norwegian comrades—or they could be Germans on patrol. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They established that Queenie and the gentleman’s wife had been at the same college, albeit nearly twenty years apart, and traded literary quotations in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"A man with your knowledge of English and of America in general does not come to Germany every day, and would be wanted in almost every department of the German government," said Kappe. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The Germans are upset at stories that Czechs and Poles are abusing ethnic Germans living in Czechoslovakia and Poland. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Restaurants that refused to serve Dorothy Vaughan had no problem waiting on Germans from the prisoner-of-war camp housed in a detention facility under the James River Bridge in Newport News. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And, in the few hours of the morning set aside for lessons, they learned French, Italian, and German. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To fulfil this destiny, as he conceived it, he believed that it would be necessary to remove all Jews - and all trace of Jewish culture - from the German Reich. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Attempted Sabotage of Poitou River Bridge on Tours-Poitiers Road, with intention of stopping German military bus carrying 24 French and Allied prisoners—Wed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The German army was now closing in on Moscow, and hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers were desperately trying to hold back the invaders. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Yet the productivity of the German beer industry is only 43 percent that of the U.S. beer industry. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the German people were desperate for change, and many believed Hitler's message that he was their savior. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The German soldiers keep talking, and now it’s obviously about us. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A fireman, a neighbor, some German soldier hunting food? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If Einstein sounded the alarm about the danger of a German atomic bomb, President Roosevelt might just listen. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish Americans were as simple and natural as Germans, don’t you? Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she stepped into the corridor and heard distant heavy footsteps in the stairwell, she thought of German jackboots, and her stomach lurched. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s great having four big, frisky German shepherds around; we’ve come such a long way since the days when Adria and I had to beg our dad for just one dog. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When they spotted a group of German bombers, Lilya followed her leader straight into such a forceful attack that the Luftwaffe aircraft scattered. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The German army wasn't prepared for the brutally cold Russian winter. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The envelope is addressed to a professor of Comparative Literature who teaches German as well as French. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

By 1935, it numbered nearly four million members—nearly 50 percent of all German youth, age ten to eighteen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In June 1940, France, having suffered devastating losses in battle, signed an armistice that allowed the German army to occupy much of Northern and Western France. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As Larisa and Nadya recovered from the shock of their own bomb exploding beneath them, they found themselves swept by the headlight beam of the German fighter plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was a German submarine, surfaced now to watch the ship die. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred thousand pounds worth of German engineering. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

That’s something we should never forget; while others display their heroism in battle or against the Germans, our helpers prove theirs every day by their good spirits and affection. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There was Paul, feeling up the German girl bold as brass—I am sure no one gave me a second glance because what a performance he put on. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Six blocks away at the telegraph office, Marie-Laure’s father presses his face to the window to watch two German motorcycles with sidecars roar through the Porte Saint-Vincent. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She went to a conference and met a German poet. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder how many spies the Germans have sent into that doctor’s office, trying to catch him at doing something wrong. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They had to fly away and land somewhere else—Raisa, Katya, and the others couldn’t get past the Germans to land safely on their own field! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On March 12, 1938, Hitler ordered his army to march into Austria, a country that had a large ethnic German population. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Soviet soldiers ransacked German labs, they realized two things. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My last few steps put me in front of the German officer in charge of the transfer. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Last night,” I tell him, “Bakers’ German shepherd jumped the fence and tore him up. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They entered another reception area, where thousands of Germans had packed the station to get a glimpse of them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The second meal announcement comes over the loudspeaker, in German, English and Yiddish. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As a result, German schools lost some of the best minds, including physicists and Nobel prizewinners such as Albert Einstein. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I read a few prayers in German, just to be polite. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The translation of a few pages of German occupied an hour; then I got my palette and pencils, and fell to the more soothing, because easier occupation, of completing Rosamond Oliver’s miniature. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The position of Heisenberg in German physics is essentially unique,” Oppenheimer said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Artur Gartner, a Luftwaffe pilot, said that most Germans were shocked to discover that there were Soviet women fighting against them in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

What if the Germans sent scouts ahead of the train to inspect the rails? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Soviet name for the fight to drive the German army out of their nation during World War II is the “Great Patriotic War.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Alsos teams rounded up the top German scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier pointed to several boys, and, speaking perfect German, he ordered them to open the freight car doors. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie listened as the wireless operator made her first radio call, in German, as cool and crisp as if she’d been giving radio instructions to Luftwaffe bombers all her life. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It is 1660, and she has just turned thirteen: too old for a proper German girl to be crouching in the dirt, according to her mother. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hannah Arendt, the influential cultural critic who documented the perverse excesses of Nazism, would later write about the “banality of evil” that permeated German culture during the Nazi era. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out that knowing German would prove more useful to us than we ever could have imagined. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

If he came across a German word he did not know, he looked up its English meaning in the Cassell’s. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They tarred and feathered a Pole they thought was a German. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why does the Japanese food-processing industry, like the German beer industry, consist of small companies with local monopolies? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who is not a German wants the Germans dead, even the most sycophantic of them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Yet many German people dismissed the stories as too horrible to be true. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have anything against the Germans, he said. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Arkansas, where we cured our own meat, we ate halfinch slabs of ham for breakfast, but in St. Louis we bought the paper-thin slices in a strange-smelling German store and ate them in sandwiches. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been wounded in a furious air battle and her navigator had been killed, and when she ran out of ammunition, she destroyed a German plane by ramming it with her own aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It forbade Germany to place soldiers in the Rhineland, a wide strip of unprotected German land that bordered France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We did not speak: she did not know German and I did not understand French. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might not be at the front, but the 586th was still in easy reach of German attackers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Another informant, a lawyer for the East German Ministry of Posts and Communications, secretly copied information about Soviet cables to paper cards, which he then taped to his backside, underneath his pants. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he ordered the state-controlled Reuters News Agency to issue a statement: “Inexorably and not without justification we demand Braddock shall defend the title on German soil.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Over our own territory we could get down quite easily, and over the German lines we felt that it was much better to burn up than to be captured by the Germans.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I now know a few of those who speak a little German. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she was looking for a place to hide, two German shoulders came running toward her with machine guns. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They're talking with each other in German too fast for me to fully understand. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And when I’m leaving, the German at the desk gives me an envelope with my name on it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

What were they thinking, those little German children? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Briony had heard a know-all porter saying, with what sounded like satisfaction, that nothing now could stop the German army. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Outside on the terrace under the arcade the German head waiter came up. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Here, along with a men’s night bomber regiment, Marina’s recruits would fly low over the German troops in the dark, bombing their headquarters and ammunition and supply depots on the southern end of the front. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It looked like the Germans would be defeated, but what then? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had come to the slaughterhouse to recruit men for a German military unit called “The Free American Corps.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the Germans knew someone standing in this spot needed the warning. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When the Germans invaded, Flerov had put his studies aside to serve in the Soviet air force. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Walter Kappe had come up with the idea to send Germans who had already lived in the United States back to infiltrate the country and establish a new spy network. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They went back to Tokyo and asked the German Consulate for different jobs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Instead they had emerged as the German national team through their obvious prowess as a unit. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Allied bombing of German cities remains a controversial subject, especially in areas where no military or industrial sites were targeted. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was almost home when I heard the bark of German officers around the corner and the shuffling of shoes on pavement. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the ship made its way up the river, throngs of Germans rushed to docks and quays along the way to watch her pass. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He’d grumbled a bit earlier about the German folks from the Lutheran church playing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A small man in black flannel comes down the staircase apologizing in German; he says he is the assistant director. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Emilia patted her left ear and then pointed to the German. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Was it really possible that the Germans could own the Thames? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At home, most Germans realized the war was over. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They bought bratwurst from street vendors, flirted with German girls, and gawked at black-shirted SS officers rushing by in sleek Mercedes limousines. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The story goes that the German fighter pilot she’d shot down was captured on the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

His rank, Matrose, was the lowest for an enlisted seaman in the German navy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the city, Germans are loading weapons or drinking brandy and history has become some nightmare from which Marie-Laure desperately wishes she could wake. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jack had thought his father very brave to help the German Jews. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

West Germans looking through a hole punched out of the Berlin Wall, January 5, 1990. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning the ghetto reverberated with sounds of the Aktion, the roundup: gunshots, shouts in German, doors banging, and heavy boots on the stairs. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

At exactly the same instant, a German aircraft swooped over Klavdiya’s head, so low she could see the pilot’s face as he fired his machine guns at her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Optimism soon revived: The Germans will not come this far. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was making the same mistake so many others were, believing that the Germans with whom he was now dealing were no different from the ones he had known before. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Roared when Henek asked why the Germans hadn’t taken the jewelry and his mother told him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She managed to glide to earth and made a crash landing on a hillside, where local people greeted her armed with pitchforks, sticks, and rifles—they’d thought her falling plane might be a German fighter. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The year 1450 is best remembered for one of the most important technological breakthroughs of human civilisation: Johannes Gutenberg’s development of a moveable-type printing press in the German town of Mainz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Eventually they also made hazardous supply flights to the partisans, the guerrilla groups who were fighting against the Germans in the Bryansk Forest near the Russian border with Ukraine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At the time, the Nazi regime was encouraging Germans living outside of the country to return to their homeland. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“The Germans, for example. The Germans don’t like us. ‘Because of our religious.’ Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about those crazy drunks who think I’m a German spy?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The Nazis said the people of Poland would become serfs to the Germans. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the next month’s election, the Germans voted more Nazis into office. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“In the second section,” he remembered, “buried away some place, was an announcement that some German chemists had found that the uranium atom split into two pieces.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the recent unfortunate happenings at the German Fraternal Hall, everyone has been on edge and the mood of the town has been somber. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the Allied forces had superior numbers and equipment, and the Normandy campaign proved disastrous for the Germans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For Ulbricht, the problem with the city's open border had nothing to do with spies: It was with the dissatisfaction of his own people, the seventeen million citizens of the German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thus Mozart, an Austrian writing largely Italian-flavoured music, thought of himself as a natural successor to Handel, a German trained in Italy who settled in Britain. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

German pilgrims, Italians humming hymns, and Japanese travelers wearing small purple caps converged on the same narrow pathways. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At Cuxhaven a motor launch flying Nazi flags pulled alongside the ship to take off German news writers and photographers who had boarded at Le Havre. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He showed me where in one translation the German word “Unlust” had been translated as “pain,” in quotations marks, and the word “Schmerz” had been translated as “pain,” without quotation marks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They’d been unprepared to run into two full formations of German bombers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Now the beach has a fort near it, taken over by Germans and used for training. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He wore a gray-green uniform and a helmet like the Germans. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He urged everyone in the Soviet Union to “defend with their lives their freedom, their honour and their country in this patriotic war against German fascism.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Although many Germans feared another war, many Hitler Youth did not. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were going to work all night to ensure that the German invaders didn’t get a wink of sleep. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

What is agreed upon is that Lawrence understood almost immediately the import of what he had seen, even though Wideroe’s report was written in dense technical German, a language that was largely beyond Ernest’s ken. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For the Germans, the big targets were the cities of Leningrad, the old imperial capital in the north, which had been the birthplace of the Soviet Union, and the new capital in Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Mulligan is believed to have been in contact with an elusive agent named Haym Salomon, a Polish immigrant who spoke German. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father wants me to start reading books by Hebbel and other well-known German writers. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As they lined up next to the German and Italian crews, Olympic officials went down the American line, hanging gold medals around the boys’ necks and placing small laurel wreaths on their heads. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Germans loaded the four badly injured men into a truck. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t been home very long before she decided that she ought to go back to Europe, this time to Germany, where she could immerse herself in the study of German lieder. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

When the war broke out in Germany, the two pooled their money with some other German friends and bought a boat. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The dignified theater with velvet curtains is now a massive holding cell for German prisoners. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the war, the Germans had taken the fight to France, to Belgium, to Holland, to Russia. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first was an enthusiastic and precise exhibit by the Germans endorsing “race hygiene”—a grim premonition of times to come. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered if, when they saw me, they would call the Germans. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It closed with the ominous observation that German scientists might have already started working on such a project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Soviet women soldiers waged a private battle against men’s underwear the whole time they were fighting their invading enemy, the German army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so much the German itself anymore as the technical terminology. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For the job of killing Johnson, Booth selects a drifter named George Atzerodt, a German carriage repairer with an unhealthy complexion who drinks a lot. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Jews inside were selling anything and everything for food, and for those of us outside, there was a bargain to be had, German laws or not. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The second laughs: a strange, puzzled laugh, as if he does not quite believe the Germans would come to his country and leave a city like this behind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Twists again, and the radio growls German news. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He then mentioned a farm named Heidelberg where they raised German shepherds. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The next day was a whirl of activity—picking up their Olympic credentials and their German visas, stocking up on a few last-minute sundries, buying travelers’ checks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His code name for the invasion was “Operation Barbarossa,” after the great twelfth-century tactician and emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who unified many European kingdoms under German rule as leader of the Holy Roman Empire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The number of air strikes on German cities is increasing daily. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When the Red Army met the invading Germans to fight back, the concentrated force and fury along that line became known as World War II’s Eastern Front. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To ensure compliance, the film department of the propaganda ministry now directly oversaw the planning and production of all new German films. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The water was like light chocolate, and sometimes there were even tadpoles in it, but it poured out in a strong, cheerful gush—the German pump was a wonder. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans are ranting and raving in all the newspapers at the treachery of Badoglio and the Italian king. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“They told us we were being shipped to Germany to work because the German men were fighting in the front lines.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Elizebeth and William first saw the letters, British and American officials already knew the broad outline of the plot, and many Indians who had worked with the Germans had been arrested. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Is it possible that ordinary German people did not know about the systematic murder of millions of people? Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody else had to, surely—someone besides the German army. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, the German beer industry cannot profit from economies of scale. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“On Christmas Eve, a German sub sank a troopship in the English Channel. They say there were thousands of American soldiers on board who drowned.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hitler was pushing out Polish girls like Emilia to make room for “Baltic Germans,” people with German heritage. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In 1883, with rather grim determination, the German embryologist August Weismann had performed an experiment that directly attacked Darwin's gemmule theory of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He told me a lot about what he called Präsentivmitteln in German. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 1940, Belgium and Poland had fallen to the Germans. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even his reliable friends the Germans failed him in this crisis: they preferred ersat2. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Was it like being German and Irish, like me? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In 1934, a visiting American reporter commented on German youth: “Children and young men no longer loaf on street corners,” noted Kenneth Roberts. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Berlin was the ultimate prize of the war, and Stalin wanted to get there first, before the Germans gave up the battle or the Western Allies stormed into the city themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

German aircraft flew over dropping bombs; there were dead bodies lying on train station platforms. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All the same, you have to be careful that stunts like these don’t reach the ears of the Germans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Thousands of French prisoners of war are shipped to Germany for forced labor in the German countryside, and Hitler sends the Luftwaffe to bomb Britain. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, the Germans didn’t have prisoner-of-war camps set up to accommodate women soldiers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One walked by, led by a German shepherd. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Hitler orders troops to the border of Czechoslovakia, sending a strong warning to those who dare to mistreat Germans. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

A Jew climbing into a truck during a forced labor roundup is kicked by a German soldier, to the delight of other soldiers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was March, 1918, and the German offensive had started in France. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Within days, however, more German soldiers are shipped on trains to the west. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Winston Churchill, the British prime minister himself, sent warnings based on captured German codes to the Soviet government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The airfield was coming under fierce bombardment every night, and one night, when Aleksandr was sent to attack a German bomber, Raisa took off after him. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

George Dasch and his team boarded a freighter, crossed its deck, and walked carefully over a gangplank into German U-boat 202. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Where the Germans decided not to shoot me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I started by reaching out to some of his old connections, German expats in Johannesburg, a woman who used to date one of his friends who knew somebody who knew the last place he stayed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, American troops poured across the bridge, the Remagen beachhead was quickly enlarged and held against German counterattacks—and everyone began to talk of the war ending in two months. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"We have to fight back. We can't let the Poles abuse Germans living in Poland!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’m pretty sure he can speak German.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

One of Hitler’s mottos was that the German woman does not smoke, does not drink, and does not paint herself with makeup. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Five months later, on March 15, 1939, he sent German troops into Bohemia and Moravia, also regions of Czechoslovakia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We scoot quickly down the little passage between the buildings before he passes, circle around the back, wait, and come right back onto the street behind the German’s back like we never stopped walking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

German townspeople watched them but would not talk to Jewish survivors gather outside the infirmary barracks in Ebensee on the day after liberation. them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He said when he was in the English army in France the Germans sent gas over which made him so sick they had to take him to the hospital. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

After World War I, the heavily German character of Anaheim gave way to the influence of newer arrivals from the Midwest, who tended to be Protestant and conservative and evangelical about their faith. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Holland would have become German, and that would have been the end of that! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When Kabuo approached from one side the boy had stared up at him and spoke through clenched teeth in tremulous German. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sass took Haupt to the German Embassy and introduced him to an official. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

"There are Germans on the beach!" he shouted. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

No jobs besides cleaning the toilets of German soldiers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Confident and cocky as always, Lilya wrote to her mother: “The Germans don’t fly here. The girls say, ‘they are afraid of us.”’ A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

What he saw was the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We call it paraffin at home, but the Americans call it kerosene, and that is more or less what the word sounds like in French and German too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

However, German soldiers could change in an instant from cordial to brutal. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

This had been the villa of a very wealthy German and the busts must have cost him plenty. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The westbound lane boiled and boomed with vehicles which were rushing German reserves to the front. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to a German prisoner, the radio broadcasts to the German troops at the front warned, “Attention, attention, the ladies are in the air, stay at your shelter.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All the men, however, were required to be “complying, nonunion workers of German citizenship and Aryan race.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was in a German officer’s uniform, but his Polish was very good, only a trace of an accent. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Just offshore, a German naval officer stood on the bow of a launch, his arm extended in a Nazi salute in the direction of Hitler. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Their two small children, left with their grandmother, were trapped in a town that had been taken over by the Germans during the summer of 1941. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They evicted Polish families and gave their homes and land to German families. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So it was still necessary, reasoned Donovan, to target German physicists, especially Heisenberg. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men all had one goal in mind: to get back home and liberate their country from the Germans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did the German song suit, Miss March?” inquired Mr. Brooke, breaking an awkward pause. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first interrogators are French; an hour later they become German. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are a thousand tiny beer companies in Germany, shielded from competition with one another because each German brewery has virtually a local monopoly, and they are also shielded from competition with imports. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The other young men—Frenchmen, Germans, Swedes, Greeks—all laughed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And Stephen Kellner, who loved to drive his German Road Machine at unsafe velocities, was right at home, leaning into each turn like a race car driver. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The German must have tossed it off her bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

On the morning of March 7, thirty thousand German troops had rolled into the demilitarized Rhineland, in open defiance of both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact to which Germany was a signatory. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I always pictured analysts as sophisticated people with short pointed beards, monocles, and German accents. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the memorandum, Himmler also warned the police about young people who ignored German culture and preferred jazz music and swing dance. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, our first impressions of the Germans were rather reassuring. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were too many other German soldiers around. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Few voices come shearing out of the static, and the ones he does hear are German. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The water of life? Do I detect a Scottish burr? Any other languages besides German?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As he said this a mottled-green, 1953 Chevy pickup with a three-legged German shepherd riding atop the cab rattled down the road, coasting to a stop behind the police car. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A girl,” Werner says in French, “did you see—?” but the interpreter only smirks and says something to the clerk in English, as though every German soldier he has interviewed has asked about a girl. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When they came for me, I was rehearsing Bach's St. Matthew Passion, but even in German I understood nothing except the language of music. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A German soldier with a flashlight went down into the darkness, was gone a long time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Soviets wanted to know how far the German bomb project had gotten, and they wanted German scientists—willing or not—to help them with their own bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a French village far to the south of Saint-Malo, a German truck crossing a bridge is blown up. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The girls traveled from village to village to help new German settlers get established. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that the German fighter plane could climb faster and more steeply than she could. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The fact that Florence had married a black man did not sit well with her German relatives, and she was made to feel unwelcome. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But resistance workers caught in the act of stealing ration cards, working to overthrow the German regime? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He kept a close eye on his handpicked SIS unit as they fought to crack German, Italian, and Japanese systems, but for the most part he let them get on with the job by themselves. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Four days later, as the German and Japanese anthems played, the ship rose into the grasp of a typhoon that whisked it over the Pacific at breathtaking speed, toward America. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

And now that spring was here, the Soviet Union tried to strike back against the German forces. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To pass time, Helmuth fiddles with a radio dial, trying to tune in a station other than the German Reich radio, the RRG. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a time when many people knew of his shop: Arab merchants, French and English geologists, German soldiers who were always well-heeled. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before another sensation joined them, as the vessel began to roll in the German Ocean swell. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Soviet night bombers were small and slow, but the exhausted Germans hated them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Josh looked like a big German or Polish kid whose eyes kind of crinkled when he smiled. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Three years after Parsifal opened, in 1885, German Chancellor Bismarck legislated to expel all Jews and Poles from the Prussian Reich; within forty years this ultra-German nationalism evolved into the cancerous ideology of Nazism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Things were chaotic, yes, but the Germans were always organized. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In Brazil alone, over a million people considered themselves partly or wholly German. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He went to Kappe's office in the headquarters of the German High Command, where Dasch met a man named Captain Astor. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

If the Germans had known Olive and had been sensible they would have gone out of their way not to anger her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think she’s doing business with the Germans right now? As in, in the house?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to be able to see Max, because I’m afraid of what might happen if he draws the attention of the Germans. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And there were sections of the city where different foreigners lived—Japanese, White Russians, Americans, and Germans—but never together, all with their own separate habits, some dirty, some clean. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might have stayed in Pulvermühle much longer, or at least as long as his money held out, but he was spotted by a journalist from the German magazine Stern, who’d tracked him down. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rudy is a mutt; my father says he’s a cross between a chihuahua and a German shepherd, which must’ve been some wild dog sex. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They managed to detach an inflatable lifeboat before their ship sank, and were crawling into it when the Germans returned. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His mother was German and spoke with an accent. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a rumor that the Germans are going to demand we hand in our radios, too. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Later that day, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover announced to the public that German U-boats had landed eight highly skilled Nazi saboteurs on America's shores. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Hitler and the Nazi SS who ran the concentration camps had convinced the German guards that Jewish prisoners were subhumans and that all prisoners, Jewish or not, deserved this brutish treatment. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here, there was a strongly fortified line of German troops, airfields, tanks, searchlights, headquarters, and machine gun and antiaircraft batteries. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Groves demanded that those barrels be stopped before reaching German soil. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was von Linden of course—I almost want to say “as usual,” as he often comes in now to chat briefly with me about German literature when he’s finished work. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But in Hitler's Germany, labor unions were outlawed, and neither communism nor socialism was tolerated even though the Nazi Party's full name was the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It was not only the German army and air force pursuing him now. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The German lady, who lived in the two-story chalet at the edge of town. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Klavdiya threw herself flat on the ground as the German plane passed over. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Sources inside the Vemork plant—Norwegian workers who fed information to the resistance network— reported that the Germans were furiously rebuilding the equipment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the year following 1939, the German army, under Adolf Hitler, had taken control of almost every country in Europe. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Japanese athletes were especially taken with the deer and began feeding them treats in such volume that the Germans discreetly moved the deer out. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t heard it in his voice, I can see from his uniform that he’s not German, and it makes me mad. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’s delighted when the Germans come over with the bombs so that he can sleep while the pub is closed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It shocked many Germans as they realized that their own parents and grandparents might be targeted as the next euthanasia victims. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The drop target was a frozen lake deep in the wilderness—hopefully, far from any German patrols. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the German Jews began to sing a different song, and the Italian Jews another. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The result was what Johnny White called “a small riot,” as German fans crowded around them trying to get a glimpse of what they half believed to be members of some pale northwestern tribe. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Germans destroyed most of the city’s antiaircraft defenses in a single day, their bombs setting fire to oil storage tanks and demolishing buildings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“We are good Germans. So do you think you could find me some food?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Leaflets offering free land to deserters were translated into German and scattered in areas where the Hessians fought. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here are some of the conclusions that I gleaned from conversations with McKinsey executives and from their reports: We Americans often fantasize that German and Japanese industries are super-efficient, exceeding American industries in productivity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He plucked a biplane from its string and swept it across the battlefield, making airplane engine noises as he knocked down little German soldiers. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He called German radio and newspaper reporters to a meeting and told them that he wanted a free press. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The correspondent was saying excitedly that some German torpedo boats had attacked a Norwegian destroyer and that it looked like it was sinking. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He felt the stiff, arched withers of two German police dogs who ran together and often teamed to fight and get licked by the Gray. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Open your coat so your pregnancy is revealed. They will assume you’re older. I’ll explain that you are Latvian and don’t speak German.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t see one policeman or German patrol on the way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This fact results from local tastes and German government policies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This angered and humiliated many Germans and, most notably, Adolf Hitler. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Danny got off at his block, and I rode the rest of the way alone, my head full of what we had talked about, especially his teaching himself German. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The German east divisions, rested and re-equipped, were thrown at the western front. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Prussian aristocracy was serving in the German army, fighting for their land and titles. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Germans are generous enough when it comes to punishment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He had written many popular German plays and poems in his time, and had married a famous German actress named Resi North. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, Onofre Martinez’s powerful three-legged German shepherd charged off its porch like an enraged water buffalo, jumped over the picket fence, and hung on the volunteer’s heels. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As winter settled in, the German radio blared out urgent appeals for Winter Help, a program to aid the soldiers and German families living in German-occupied territories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He called on the German people to defend Berlin to the last man. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A friend of the nurse. She’s concerned because she doesn’t speak German. She understands a bit, but is not able to speak.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Herr Thiessen continues to write, and over the following months some of the articles are reprinted in other German papers, and eventually they are translated and printed in Sweden and Denmark and France. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So cool and crisp, such authority—suddenly she really was a radio operator, a German radio operator, she was so good at faking it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I just wished the Germans hadn’t taken my lunch. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Coupons are needed for everything, from flour to shoes, and yet the Nazis continue to press for war donations—more woolen clothing for the soldiers and German marks to buy cannons, tanks, and airplanes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not this last citadel at the edge of the continent, this final German strongpoint on the Breton coast. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“A German staff car crossed on the upper bridge.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The waiter seems to neither know nor care that she is German. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They ransacked the offices and confiscated files on six million young Germans who belonged to rival groups. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had been out in the Alisal presiding at the disintegration of old, old lady German. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I said coldly, in German, “What possible reason could I have to pretend to be Berlin’s interpretive liaison with London?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Proud to be Germans, Jews were law-abiding citizens who had helped Germany to grow. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

With my friends over, I notice how fluidly I move around my home, weaving through tables, greeting our foreign guests by name and even dropping some hellos in English or French or German. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seventy-five kilometers to the south, at the start of the occupation two and a half years ago, the German planes bombed Rotterdam, killing nine hundred civilians and much of the city's architecture. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now the Soviets began to prepare to take back the eastern region of Belorussia from German occupation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Over the radio, the German people were told that Hitler had been killed at the head of his troops in the heroic Battle of Berlin. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We did not want to have anything to do with the Germans. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His target was the West German chancellor himself, Konrad Adenauer. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I can't speak, but he tells me in his rough, rushed German what is going on outside in the stabbing sunshine. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dad reached into his pocket and pulled out his favorite jackknife, the one with the horn handle and the blade of blue German steel that we’d used for Demon Hunting. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If we prove ourselves useful to the German war effort, they will take fewer of us away. They will keep us here, and keep us alive!” the director said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why do I have a prescription for such a strong pain medication from a German Army doctor? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He hated the Germans, he hated Americans, he hated the Russians, but he just couldn’t stand the Irish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of them surrounded the bus, some carried bats or metal poles, and others held vicious German shepherds, growling and ready to attack these unarmed people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s a cross between a Rottweiler and a German shepherd, and he stinks a kind of stink that’s impossible to rid him of. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Drawn to words in any language, she took four years of German and five years of Latin. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Yet Hitler continued to promise peace, even as he planned to unite ethnic Germans and reclaim territory that Germany had lost as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He visited them nearly every day, played games with them, lectured to them on German history, played their piano, gave them lessons in conversational German. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did those coastal Germans wait so long, and what led them finally to change their minds? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the boys completed their Reich Labor Service, they reported for two years of military service, either with the Wehrmacht, as the regular German army was called, or with the SS. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

American troops entrenched on the new line and repulsed two powerful German counterattacks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was illegal, but night after night, Helmuth listened to the British war reports and compared them with the German news. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the Germans wanted heavy water that badly, he figured, they must be using it in their atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now the women and men of the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment moved on to help take back the Smolensk region, where the Germans had held Soviet territory for the past two years. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And so Helmuth moves a handful of Germans to protect the right flank. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t look so shocked. I told you he was German.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

By spring 1940, the German army was prepared to strike again. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the streets, two big gray military trucks pulled up, and Jews from our apartment building and all the buildings around us were herded into them by German soldiers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the first week in September 1941, as the German army surrounded the city of Leningrad, Marina gave a speech at a “women’s antifascist meeting” in Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Unlike every other German crew at Griinau that summer, they had not been individually selected by the Nazi state. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Using his South American name of Gerardo Fischer, he wrote in German to Regina from Chile voicing his worries. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose we were just playing for higher stakes than the Germans. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Like the way the East German Olympic teams used to ‘bulk up,’ Kevin.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The German countess then began to speak, but I was at this point, for some reason I do not recollect, obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The German people have been asked to donate woolen and fur clothing for the soldiers at the Russian front, where winter comes early. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Surely this pebble is what the German seeks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Marian, tall, slim, and elegant, with her assured stage presence, sang ten songs in German, an aria in Italian, and several spirituals in English. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

They were under orders to grab important papers from German labs and capture top German physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The optimists were jubilant: “Well? What did we tell you? You wouldn’t believe us. 'T here they are, your Germans. What do you say now? Where is their famous cruelty?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was how I could guess what German girls would do. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A German woman whose husband had not returned from the war lived there with her young child and her elderly mother. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could even ask his name, he staggered away, murmuring something about his wife and the Germans. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hope the German shepherd was the guy. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You must reckon,” he said, “that the Germans will in no circumstances take any prisoners.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not the radio the German was interested in. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

By the late 1930s, though, the glacial equanimity of the German public response to the sterilization program made the Nazis bolder. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The • German lines were farther from the river.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We just sat, waiting for the German Army to pass. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This morning and last night, dummies made of straw and rubber were dropped from the air behind German lines, and they exploded the minute they hit the ground. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

On the road again, they saw burned-out tanks and armored cars, German as well as British and French. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He remembered how Carl looked sitting beside him with his gym towel draped around his thick German neck, glaring out the window at the fields. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once, when the German forces cut off their supplies for several days, the ground crew of the 586th ate nothing but herring. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The German Army must need our sofa, I thought, because it was already being carried out the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Thus the average U.S. brewery produces 31 times more beer than the average German brewery. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He mixed in various plot lines from Austrian, Norwegian and German sagas, and set about moulding them into a coherent dramatic whole. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The German coastal batteries were destroyed even before the landing; a small bridgehead has already been formed. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Acting together, these German people created enough public pressure for Hitler to reconsider. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

These were appalling scenes, compounded in January 1944 by the retreating German armies looting and destroying the historic galleries, mansions and palaces of the tsars. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When night fell, the manager of the property patrolled the grounds with three big German shepherds. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Then he would show the visitors how we could type, send the Morse code, multiply numbers, and speak some French, German, and Italian. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't speak German or read Hebrew or write Chinese. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

That’s the signal for me to burst into noisy tears, which the girls will respond to with equally noisy comfort and cooing—all in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In the late nineteenth century, Irish and German immigrants served the urban upper and middle classes, then left for the factories as soon as they could. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of each newscast, the BBC announcer reminded German listeners to change the dial to avoid getting caught. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Marian took classes in German and French, studied with a famous teacher of German lieder, and met many people in London’s close-knit music community. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

They started a game of twenty questions in German. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The German American Bund produced propaganda to further its cause, publishing magazines and brochures, organizing demonstrations, and running Hitler Youth-like camps. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Billy survived, but he was a dazed wanderer far behind the new German lines. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a German pilot shot down a Pe-2 dive-bomber and found that a woman had been flying it, his commanding officer told him: “Don’t mention it to anyone. We don’t shoot at women.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Radar stopped the Germans from being able to launch sneak attacks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In the nearby town he found a former German engineer who was now unemployed and had five children to feed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

"Thanks to his Jewish advisors. It's all the Jews' fault, you know. All part of their plan to destroy the German Reich." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He forms two lines, with blue-clad French soldiers dug in on one side and gray-clad Germans attacking mercilessly on the other, just as they had fought on the Western front during the Great War. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The German deserter and the runaway Pole are gone,” he announced. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Once the Germans captured the Volga River and destroyed the Soviet Union’s defenses, they could head north to get at Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Swedes served up braided bread and hard baked pretzels, while the Germans and Austrians touted their strudels and bierochs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In answer, the German song swelled mightily and drowned out “Auld Lang Syne.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 588th was sent to help prevent the Germans from taking over the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, an important source of oil for the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Russians are taking part in the campaign; yesterday they started their offensive near Vitebsk, exactly three years to the day that the Germans invaded Russia. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Germans’ sawmill was always shut at that time of year, and it was hard to reach from all the main roads. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we learned of the surrender of the German Sixth Army in early February 1943, we knew a German defeat was probable. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As things turned out, that particular visit was simply the first of a whole series of such 'unofficial' meetings between Lord Halifax and the German Ambassador of that time, Herr Ribbentrop. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The German commander surrendered on January 31—despite orders cabled from Hitler to fight to the death. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A saber hung at his side and the German flag from East Shoal’s Flags-of-the-World entryway rested against one shoulder. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The Germans had reached the Channel, the British army was in difficulties. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This flat can stay,” the German officer said, pocketing my mother’s jewelry. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The radio talked about the fighting in Denmark and Norway and Belgium and the Netherlands, but since it was a German station, they always said they were winning. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what a good guard dog goes for these days? I’ll tell you. There’s a German shepherd on the internet on sale for fifty-five thousand dollars. For one dog! Fifty-five K!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And usually these carrion talkers were the same ones who had said one American was worth twenty Germans in a scrap—the same ones. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he was ordered to report to the German Army to be enlisted as a private with no chance for a promotion. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

If the Germans keep Przemyśl, then there’s no hope for him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Germans feared that the Russians would avenge Hitler’s double-crossing and the atrocities inflicted upon the Russian people by the German soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wilfred then said that I was welcome to listen to his vast collection of classical composers, mostly German, in his living room whenever I wanted to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later, he sent German troops into the rest of Czechoslovakia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please take revenge for me on the Germans,” she told them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and the Jews. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And a young German saleswoman laughing at every joke. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They have to mark the neutral bit “IRELAND” in big letters made of whitewashed stones, hoping the Germans won’t drop bombs there thinking it’s the UK side of the northern border. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

South Koreans have paid close attention to the price tag of German unification. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Instead, most German beer is consumed within 30 miles of the factory where it is brewed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What does Danny want to read in German?” he asked me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Some said Berlin didn’t care about the Germans in East Prussia. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Polish army, no matter its bravery, proved unable to stop the flood of German soldiers who had crossed into Poland and quickly moved east. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

For Omakayas, he bought a small cross stamped out of German trade silver. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And two weeks after that, the first German bombs fell on Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then I realized I could no longer read German. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kwang, though, kept pushing, adding to his wholesale stores by eventually leasing plants in North Carolina to assemble in part the machines he sold for the Italian and German manufacturers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of those laws, not much foreign beer gets exported to Germany, and because of inefficiency and high prices much less of that wonderful German beer than you would otherwise expect gets sold abroad. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The German words crowded into “Auld Lang Syne.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of him totters a German officer in field dress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One day, Helmuth decided that the German people deserved to know the truth about the Nazis. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They got to work digging trenches that might slow down the German tanks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“And the German told me a Russian had found her in the forest.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

What if those two Germans who had put guns to my head knew who I was? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even if the Germans came, people would still play tennis, or gossip, or drink beer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She learned the German from her husband, she said, same way she learned the Dutch. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch for a long time from behind a pile of rubble still left from a German bomb, but I don’t see the policeman. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

On April 12, 1945, when the German guards fled from the Red Army as it approached the concentration camp, Nina and her fellow prisoners cut the lock off the gate and let themselves out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

His job was to listen to American radio newscasts and translate them from English to German. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I was the one, all along, who had been saying how the Germans shouldn't be allowed to just do whatever they wanted, to conquer country after country. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the back Hassan grunted and sniffled as if he were dreaming he was a German shepherd, and Colin felt the ceaseless burning in his gut, thinking, This is all so CHILDISH. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Louie just had a hankering to steal in his head and two persuasive liters of German brew in his belly. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Wolf specialized in infiltrating the West German government, sometimes with "Romeo spies," who would strike up romances with unsuspecting single women—many of them secretaries to powerful generals and political figures. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A German prisoner,” reported Pash, “confirmed the fact that we had captured the Nazi uranium ‘machine’ as the Germans called it-—actually an atomic pile.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Word of what they had done had gotten back to Koch, and he berated them in German. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On May 10, 1940, the Nazis entered France, and six weeks later, France surrendered, leaving Britain alone to fight the Germans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But before they could pull the trigger on the operation, German intelligence uncovered Haukelid’s crew of radio operators. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Might von Linden’s wife have been at university with my German tutor? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The poem was originally written in German but I have it only in translation. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Although the students of Burnt Mill Creek had largely abandoned what at one time had been considered boys-being-boys typical teenage bullying, the German Dance Club was still fair game. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The rally reached its climax that night when Adolf Hitler stepped before the German parliament, the Reichstag, to introduce three new laws. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“White circles represent pure German blood. Circles with black indicate the proportion of foreign blood. Notice group two, number five.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dasch struggled to reply in German, so Kappe switched to English and used a fake British accent to try to hide his harsh German accent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

"Jews are not Germans," says Hugo, his temper flaring. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They, in short, are not the enemy, any more than our fellow islanders of German or Italian descent. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like seeing the look on the German soldier’s face when I came walking up to the labor camp at Janowska. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then in 1941, the SS sent Sargo a young German radio expert, who built powerful transmitters and radio networks that could reliably reach Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When Wayne pointed out that the name Trishalt sounded German, Gust shook his head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He was worth more to us than ten divisions of Germans,” said Groves. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His accent was not German, to Lee’s ears, but English, of England. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never mind speaking German; I couldn’t have faked it like that, just off the top of my head, no training or anything. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We just sat there in my family’s flat, listening to the radio and watching the sky over Kraków turn black as the Germans came to kill us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If only we could get hold of a German atomic physicist,” said Samuel Goudsmit, “we could soon find out what the rest of them were up to.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will be officially recognized in the annals of German history...oh my...quite a lot of movement. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He told them that he wanted the Sudetenland, the western portion of Czechoslovakia where another large ethnic German population lived. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Earned two German medals for running a British blockade. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

There hadn’t been any German patrol the last time I went home after curfew. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Since the Germans are evidently perfectly capable of organizing industries well, why can’t they do so when it comes to beer? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Germany had conquered them, but that didn’t make them love the Germans any more. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder the radar operators, sitting eight hours a day in front of screens, could miss these life- threatening blips, these German bombers that could kill their friends and family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Czechoslovakia was still held by Germany—it had been one of the first countries to fall at the start of the war—but the homes we passed now were Czech, not German. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On November 9, an East German government spokesman named Gunter Schabowski gave a press conference at which he stated that travel restrictions between East and West Germany would be eased. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson told them to go upstairs and get their gear and get on the German army bus waiting outside to take them down to Griinau for the race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"It was an exhilarating time," he recalled, "but I knew that we could not go on forever like some German Bonnie and Clyde." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The word Germans was something to be frightened of. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The German Shepherds used to ferret out people in hiding were barking ferociously. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

According to the German news, British paratroopers have landed on the coast of France. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It’s in fast German; I can’t understand the words, but I can understand the meaning as he gestures to the end of the block. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps London would be overwhelmed by poisonous gas, or overrun by German parachutists aided on the ground by fifth columnists before Lola’s wedding could take place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As the Germans were pushed out of the occupied towns, the liberators discovered mass graves that told silently of the horrific holocaust suffered by Belorussia’s Jewish inhabitants. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All winter the Germans drive their horses and sledges and tanks and trucks over the same roads, packing down the snow, transforming it into a slick bloodstained ice-cement. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Good evening," Ollie says in German as we quietly squeeze through. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

German by blood, he renounced his race when it came to its cooking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Reading and relaxation: No German books may be read, except for the classics and works of a scholarly nature. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The clock on the table is German, old but still accurate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is looking for an adjunct position, teaching German part-time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Space Race began soon after the Allies won World War II. America and the former Soviet Union inherited and made use of German technology, specifically rocket technology. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

A German policeman walked behind me, his gun pointed at my back while I followed the rest of the patrol down the sidewalk in a slow parade. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The German shuts the wardrobe doors and hobbles away, and Marie-Laure stays on the bottom rung of the ladder for a count of forty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Along the top of the stone bridge we could see German helmets moving. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He really believes there's a terrible misunderstanding on the Prime Minister's part concerning the present German regime.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When she stood before him, small and blond and pretty, less than a month past her twenty-first birthday, the German ace thought his Soviet captors must be making fun of him. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

East German guards kept watch over random checkpoints, demanding identity papers for anyone wishing to pass through. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the border, Polish authorities deny the Jews entry and detain them in open fields, without shelter, food, or water while the Polish and German governments argue. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

There’s only me between him and the Germans. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No, Stefania Podgórska, I do not think you are a spy for the Germans. But how do you know that I am not?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Long, eerily pale beams of light swept back and forth across the dark sky as the Germans on the ground tried to find the aircraft that were attacking them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“From 10 to 12 and 2 to 4 six days in the week, I shall confine myself to my old medical works and other college studies including stenography, French and German.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

U-boat officers and Germans of priority will of course take lodging in the ship's passenger cabins. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You don’t often find young people as brave as you two boys,” Governor Altvatter said once everyone quieted down after the German slap dancers ended their ridiculous performance. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every day I watched the German soldiers in their field-gray uniforms who guarded a petroleum tank across the street from our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The former German capital sat deep inside the zone of Soviet occupation, in the eastern part of Germany. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother was a German Jewish lady, and their father was a black army soldier. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Down the corridor was a tall, brown-haired, brown-eyed Swiss/German expat named Robert. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was taking a German course at Princeton now, living with his parents, both of whom taught at the university, and he was going out of his mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Decoded, the letters revealed a German plot that centered on India. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They showed up in other southern German cities as well. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even before the advent of the Nuremberg Laws, life had become all but intolerable for German Jews. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The German woman had arrived with the keys. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prior to leaving, Heinck had gone to a bar, gotten blitzed, and announced he was a German secret agent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It would resume, the conductor said in English, French, and German, in an hour and a half. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

To the west lay the ancient Grunewald forest, where sixteenth-century German princes hunted stags and wild boars and where Berliners of all classes nowadays enjoyed hiking, picnicking, and foraging for mushrooms. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Yitzchak, who had indeed escaped, had lived in the forest with the partisans, fighting the Germans. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? Oh. Yes. Like a German spy. Or everyone’s idea of a German spy, anyway, fair and scary.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"Charlemagne," he cooed at him also, for the baby was large and big-boned with blond fuzz on his pale pink skin, and blue eyes just like his German father's. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The Russians were targeting German ground troops nearby. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually, it became dangerous for Germans to have friends who were Jewish or who belonged to the Jehovah’s Witness faith. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the storm, flying so low she was afraid her wing might touch the ground if she turned, Zoya found herself over a German camp instead of the Soviet one she’d been heading for. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Mexican songs were constantly punctuated by irrelevant spotshots nobody listened to, such as the “German Press Review” and a show featuring a well-known beauty queen talking to teen-agers about their diets and their pimples. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had come out of a German university tradition that believed in dueling. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“You agree, of course? We are good Germans.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The Germans aren’t the Central Europeans, dear,” his wife said very gently. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the U.S. incarceration rate quadrupled, the Finnish rate fell by 60 percent, and the German rate was stable in that period. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Knowing the smashing sound could have alerted the German guards, Ronneberg quickly pulled pieces of broken glass from the frame, slicing open his hand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no road signs, not one; they’d all been taken down or blacked over to confuse the enemy in the event Operation Sea Lion was successful and the German army came swarming inland. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“You told me to tell you if he ever started talking with a German accent. I got him to speak German, so that’s even better, right?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Although we continued to hope the German army would soon be defeated, we couldn't begin to know what would happen next. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The flavor reminds me of Dad’s favorite cake, German chocolate. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In perfect German, the radio announcer says jauntily, as if he's announcing a tennis match, "This is BBC London with the German news broadcast!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It speaks of good Germans and bad Germans. You are a good German.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The German shepherd that has been barking nonstop for three days and two nights finally shuts up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This was unlikely to succeed, since the Germans now had extra soldiers on patrol. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even more distressing to Flerov was the idea of a German atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Congratulations!" she calls in German as he approaches. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Jews’ identity cards and passports were marked with a “J” for Jude, the German word for Jew. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The locket is gold, shaped like a heart, probably containing a photograph of an apple-faced German girl who has promised to remain faithful back in Berlin. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So the two young women in their Yak fighters, rapidly firing their guns, dived straight into the middle of the first group of German bombers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Joan took Spanish and German in high school and was adept in both, “Industry!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some Germans feared that Hitler would lead them to war. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The defeat hit the German people like a thunderbolt. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A German employee, a civilian, the Meister, came to meet us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valuable German territory was also taken away as part of the treaty, causing the loss of industrial and agricultural income. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He tried to think of the German word for wasp but couldn’t. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the early hours of the morning on June 22, 1941, the German forces hurled themselves at the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For that matter, how can Clausewitz be a product both of the Enlightenment and of the German Romantic movement, which arose in reaction to the Enlightenment? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As Allied bombing continued on German cities, the duties of the Hitler Youth grew riskier, especially as the older Hitler Youth were called to military service. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the German aeroplane has been shot down. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mahmoud and his fellow sailors were forced to dive from the dinghy and wait underwater until the Germans were satisfied that the crew had all been shot or drowned. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“They say he killed three men before the war. The Germans put him in prison, but when the war started they made him a kapo. We've got murderers for guards.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They settled into a neighborhood where other German immigrants lived. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t have the vocabulary for a warfare account in French, and I can’t write fluently enough in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The Germans, for the most part, pretended not to notice. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Asked if he had been brushing up on his German, Ebright shot back, “I don’t expect to have to have any knowledge of the language.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If she delayed, she thought, the Germans might arrive and she might never have another chance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He ordered the German military to prepare an all-out invasion of Poland. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family lets Amélie do most of the talking when the Nazis occupy their kitchen—she appears to have a head full of feathers but utterly charms the visitors with her fluent Alsatian German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It makes me think of the first day I met her, giving those directions in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was late, the streets empty except for the German patrol. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Since the Germans had a shortage of powered aircraft, the boys built and piloted gliders. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The arrival of the German and the young girl made me uneasy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He and President Roosevelt wanted Hitler to believe that American spies had infiltrated the German sabotage school and the German Army. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Jewish prisoners who spoke Yiddish could understand enough German because of similarities in the languages. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Germans were writing on the cars with blue chalk—the number of persons in each car, their rank, their nationality, the date on which they had been put aboard. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In that case, you must give me credit for being impartial. When the Germans rode in, I almost stabbed a robust young Oberkutnant to death with a sprig of edelweiss.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Wealthy Germans in luxurious clothing stood in one line, military personnel in another. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It was a shock to see the condition of the returning German soldiers—totally exhausted and worn out.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever they approached a town, a rumor would sweep through their ranks that the Germans were already there. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Who was this German boy, old enough to be in the Wehrmacht, yet dressed in civilian clothes? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And so, on February 1, 1933, as Hitler’s voice boomed over the radio, the German people felt grateful for his leadership. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bishop von Galen warned the German people about the implications of such murder. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My father was Lithuanian but my mother’s family had German roots. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Leningrad, Russia’s old capital, was under attack and had been blockaded by the German army since September 8, 1941. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, they send you to war, make you lick them Germans, teach you how to fight and when you come back they scared of you, want to kill you.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 586th spent the fall of 1943 defending Kursk and then the Ukrainian city of Kiev, newly liberated from German occupation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

So now the soldiers round up the old village ladies, young mothers with their hair curled and pinned, wounded and decommissioned German soldiers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Loads. Whole Irish Sea was rotten with German subs. Wager you’d have half a navy on your hands if you could unsink all the ships they torpedoed.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

At one point, the German countess emerged from the midst of the gentlemen and before I had had a chance to serve her, began helping herself to some port from my tray. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning I went to see the German with the wire-rimmed glasses at the city hall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The German man's small, correct handwriting mentioned unmentionable things—bed conversations were recreated on the thin blue sheets of aerogramme letters. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As the Jewish leadership appointed to be liaisons with the Nazis, they communicate German orders and have a little more freedom than other Jews. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Young German women dressed in uniforms walked among the ranks of athletes, smiling, handing out cookies and orangeade, trying to keep everyone peppy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the pain, Lilya flew straight into the middle of the German fighters. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He got up and asked politely, in German,“Excuse me . . . Could you tell me where the toilets are located?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect was to strip German Jews of their citizenship and all associated rights beginning in January of 1936. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nina and Aleksandr had been taken prisoner behind enemy lines by the Germans: the Soviet soldier’s worst nightmare. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“God only knows. And let us hope that He tells the Germans!” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haupt's family understood that he "was working for the German government in some capacity." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I watched the German soldier breathe out a long cloud of smoke. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I gulped and made my case to him in German. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Following the invading German army, mobile killing squads of the SS, called Einsatzgruppen, had swept through the villages of eastern Poland with the sole purpose of murdering Jews. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Why could the German people let this happen?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Never learned about your own people in your sweet German school? All that time, while the nurse was analyzing the color of your eyes and the length of your nose?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For six months, the 586th Regiment had been defending strategic positions in their dangerous solo Yak fighters and the 588th Regiment had been harassing German troops with bombs dropped from their flimsy Po-2s. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And then they’d decided to sneak through the city after curfew, giving the Germans all the best chances to spot them in places where they shouldn’t be. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The German Security Police came to pick up the four remaining men, none of whom were injured. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how much German Mama spoke—I think she understood more than she could speak. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Some of the Judenrat police enjoyed their new jobs too much, it was true, but there were others who tried to do what the Germans told them without making things worse for their fellow Jews. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had phoned him that morning to say that the Germans might attempt to shell the refinery and the oil storage tanks, and that he must report to help fight the fires. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the women were eating breakfast, a group of German aircraft descended on the thirty wood-and-canvas Po-2s, firing their machine guns. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Soviet fighter pilots cleared the sky of German night fighters around them for several nights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Did I save that German laddie’s life yesterday, or destroy it? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They were already being used at the front for communications, as ambulances, and for clobbering German troops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Many German Jews tried to leave Germany, but few found places to go. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Alsos mission’s job was to follow close behind advancing Allied forces in Europe, searching for any scraps of information about the German atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A German officer stepped in accompanied by a Hungarian lieutenant, acting as his interpreter. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans had taken the Immerglicks for no more reason than that they felt like it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And they didn’t want any of the thawed hamburgers or German potato salad my mother offered. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They had been lying in ambush for Germans. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Totally—there's a word in German for it. God, it's on the tip of—a...” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

There were dead German soldiers, he said, propped up in the shop windows like mannequins. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He thinks more painters will start using it again, just as the old German, Italian, and Flemish painters had. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But tens of thousands of spectators, most of them German, began to flood into the regatta grounds, huddled under black umbrellas or wearing rain slickers and hats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“German. Obviously. They spoke it—well, an odd variant—in the village where I went to school in Switzerland. And I liked it.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She buys me treats at the tourist shop—chocolate bars with hazelnuts, German swimming trunks, and more underwear than I could possibly use. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father worked for the Germans on the narrow-gauge railroad that transported lumber and other supplies from our area to Germany. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Less than two weeks before, Soviet forces had won a fierce battle to free the city from German occupation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong with studying German? Freud wrote in German. What are you looking at me like that for?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

This hegemony looked likely to continue indefinitely But even without the catastrophe of two world wars, the Austro- German dynasty was coming to an end. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In 1941, when the Gestapo arrested Karl for a different offense, the dismissal letter from the Hitler Youth was used against him as proof that he was not a loyal German. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried to the door and unlocked it, and a German officer and a Judenrat police officer pushed past me down the hall. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Five days later, a newscaster shrills that Paris has fallen to the Germans, and the German people are overjoyed to see the Nazi flag hoisted over France. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re worthless to your son. Tribal schools don’t use these books, for they are written in French, German, Arabic, Hindu and Chinese, languages which I, too, can’t read.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Based on their experiences in the Great War, people assumed women and children would be safe, but able-bodied men would be conscripted into the German army as forced laborers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But having returned to Germany after spending nearly twenty years living in the United States, his command of the German language wasn't very good. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

By the end of January 1945, the Americans had driven the Germans back to their own border. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tired of broken promises, these Germans simply shrugged their shoulders and went on with their lives. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Epler were German farmers who brought their eggs and chickens to market three times a week. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a monograph with him, published by the German Association of Prison Officials. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember the Germans from the World War. They were very nice people.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Trenches snake below them in an endless net, German positions on one side, Russian positions beyond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Germans quickly found the wreck, questioned survivors, then shot them and dumped them in a ditch. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are not knowing how to bake German chocolate cake?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You mean like those guys who NetChat you and pretend they’re a hot German pop star named Hans but who turn out to be some old fat guy in a house in Kansas?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Whatever happens, don’t go outside! The best thing to do is to stay put! The Germans are capable of herding the entire population of Holland into Germany, where they’ll all die.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Hermann Goring, in a dark uniform and cape like Hitler’s, bent over and slapped his knee with each German victory and then turned and beamed at Hitler. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

General Dwight D. Eisenhower understood that the German people needed to be reeducated. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We contacted the occupying German authorities, but they were uninterested because she was not a soldier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Boghetti had been working with her on expanding her repertoire of art songs, and now he encouraged her to prepare an ambitious program of works by Italian, German, and English composers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

With their Yiddish, they were just able to understand his German. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of steel cylinders, each of them six feet in diameter, were manufactured specially in Virginia and then transported by ship to the West German port of Bremerhaven. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He intended to unite all Germans into a Greater Germany, including ethnic Germans who lived in Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other countries with large German populations. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one in the truck has even seen a German. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Today it's "Erika," a song about German girls and German flowers. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Eifler had spent the past few months perfecting his plan to kidnap the German physicist Werner Heisenberg and putting together his team for the job. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I folded Hattie Mae’s article and found myself in the same somber mood the town of Manifest had been in after that cross had been set on fire in front of the German Fraternal Hall. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The bridge led right to the plant, but it was patrolled by German soldiers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The empty building across the street will now be a German hospital...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I asked in German, in a voice of wonder and hurt as though it had only just occurred to me, “What is your daughter’s name?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Traveling with the Red Army to the front, Grossman saw the panicked population as people left their homes and tried to escape the German army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was the job of Army Counter- Intelligence to guard the world’s most dangerous secret—not just from the Germans, but from the Soviets as well. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studied at the great German university and sailed to England and France with Horatio. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If a German scout plane flew over it in daylight, all the pilot would see was an empty green field. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In a fresh and frenzied campaign in January 1945, six million Soviet soldiers surged along the Eastern Front against a scraggling and demoralized German force of about two million. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, as the German war machine rolled across Poland, the BDM did not know or did not want to know the fate of the Jews. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It felt so good to do something against the Germans, even if the only thing we could do was destroy our own possessions. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She was the one who’d been arrested and nearly shot just because she’d got stuck on the German side of the front lines. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The barrels would travel under heavy guard, and German planes would fly overhead to watch the land on either side of the tracks. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas Bach undoubtedly absorbed Italian and French flavours of style, he was nevertheless inescapably a north German composer whose music would take a century to be reintroduced into the mainstream. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What the Germans learned only later was that they were at an estate called Farm Hall, in the countryside of southeast England. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched boys in their yarmulkes scrubbing the streets beneath the eye of a German machine gun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As soon as darkness fell each night, the night bombers began their harassment duties in their open-cockpit Po-2s, flying out to the front lines and relentlessly dumping explosives on the Germans troops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A new long-distance flight record in a Soviet plane would make a fine political statement to the Germans: our long-range bombers won’t have any trouble reaching Greater Germany if war breaks out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the German dictator built up a huge military and started hacking out what he called a “Greater Germany,” a massive European empire that Hitler insisted rightfully belonged to Germans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were now named the 46th Taman Guards in honor of their spring and summer harassing the German troops in the Taman Peninsula. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I will beg him for another week, in German, this evening. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I had woken in the middle of the night and imagined I saw the German standing above me in the dark. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He spoke with a foreign accent, the same accent that the German soldiers always had in World War II movies. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds the same in English and French and German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He looked like the men referred to as “purebloods,” portrayed on the German signs. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If the Germans didn’t see us, they didn’t have to think about us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His avowed agenda was to give the Germans a sense of their historical destiny through the arts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Later, the Nazis expanded the law to exclude Jews from German schools altogether and then forbade them from attending any school at all. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, we knew how fragile our security was in the face of constantly changing German rules and policies. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

One shocking feature of the Germans’ early-morning attack on June 22 was that they destroyed hundreds of Soviet aircraft on the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

With these in place, German planes could leapfrog their way up the continent and seize the American-controlled Panama Canal Zone, and perhaps even Mexico or Cuba. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As the Allied forces moved through western Europe following the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the Soviets moved on the Germans in Belorussia, bringing another wave of desperate combat for the 125th. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Although he didn’t know the Bernese dialect, his German was fluent enough to be understood easily, and since it was the U.S. embassy, everybody spoke English anyway. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

German guards apprehended him when he crossed the German border from Austria. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the other subgroups—the various Scandinavian, German, and Dutch languages—are crammed into northwestern Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On December 6, Soviet soldiers began to push the frozen and exhausted German troops away from the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In the war’, she went on, ‘the German spies used to sneak boxloads of loose-bristled toothbrushes into our shops and millions of our soldiers got appendicitis. ’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What kind of children's center?" he asks, giving a gentle tug on the German shepherd's leash. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

People discussed the war and how the Germans might save us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

"We have six million unemployed and three million more so poor that they can't put food on the table. Haven't we Germans suffered enough already? Do you want your mothers and fathers to suffer more?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans would march us off the field road if they found us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Except for one thing: It was a key ingredient in the German atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to try four different contacts; eventually I got these cigarettes from a woman who gets them from a German soldier. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“British landing craft are engaged in combat with German naval units,” according to the BBC. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Or that the ack-ack-ack of the German machine gun is really just a woodpecker getting his nose out of joint. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In event after event that afternoon, German oarsmen charged down the course ahead of their competition, winning gold medals in the first five races. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A German was kicking his feet, telling him to wake up, that it was time to move on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second half of the nineteenth century was, for music, all about destiny too, though since music was dominated by Germans, Italians, Frenchmen and Russians, tragedy triumphed, and it all ended in death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For one German army loaf there are fifty tins of canned beef over there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans climb out of their vehicles, more than a dozen of them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jan: “You shouldn’t include the Jews. I don’t think anyone knows what’s going on in Russia. The British and the Russians are probably exaggerating for propaganda purposes, just like the Germans.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A few days prior we had two carts and three horses but some German soldiers we encountered had taken one of the wagons and two horses, claiming they were needed for the war effort. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

So German agents funneled money to Indian immigrants in the United States, who used it to fund a revolt in their home country. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He would also have taught me German and Greek and Latin, which he knew, and perhaps I would be a Lutheran. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Blew up a bridge and failed to stop the German army.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Poland was split right down the middle, and the Germans and Russians had promised not to fight each other. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every time German soldiers banged on our door, we flashed the permits and held our collective breath for the brief but interminable inspections. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Since the nineteenth century, millions of Germans had immigrated to the continent, and many maintained strong ties to their fatherland. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you read German?” asked Miss Kate with a look of surprise. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When enemy planes were spotted, air-raid sirens wailed, warning Germans to black out their windows. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Across the racecourse, in lanes one and two, the Germans and Italians pulled off the line cleanly and moved briskly to the front of the field. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Most of my dad’s German friends had left for Cape Town. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If the Germans were about to finish an atomic bomb, would Heisenberg really believe the war was lost? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The honesty electrifies Helmuth, the way the British announce their own losses to the Germans. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the Germans had left at the end of the Great War, so they would leave again. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“You’re a German spy, and I’m going to have you shot” “German spy? I’m an American colonel.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Although the saboteurs were told they could speak to one another only in English from now on, their classes were taught in German. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

KdF was a national German organization that was supposed to make leisure activities available to the masses, regardless of social class. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Rumors circulated that the German front had fallen two weeks ago. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“My mother had German heritage, so Hitler allowed us to repatriate and come to Germany. I only got as far as Insterburg.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, the Germans poisoned them and dropped their bodies into the sea. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They said it's against the law to have German books.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just the bombs Serafima and her navigator had dropped—now the German antiaircraft guns began firing up at the small Po-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The ground staff was by now equipped with radar, and the deputy chief navigator, Nina Slovokhotova, was able to update Tamara and Raya by radio to tell them where to find the German attack planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That night they reached the next stop—a farm that belonged to a German. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have me doing all this busywork,” says the German. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the name of the Fatherland, the girls cooked, cleaned, and mended for the ethnic German families. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So I went over by the German and bought him two dozen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the German SS that come into the photography shop to have their pictures made. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of prisoners in threadbare clothing hurried from one work detail to another, threatened by gun-wielding German and Ukrainian guards. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Grace climb into his German coupe, my manila envelope safely in the back. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to cars, said their names and where they were made: Soviet Volgas, American Chevrolets, German Opels. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But how could people allow this to go on, Mark?” he asked in a heavy German accent. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My entire genealogy file, my notebooks, my books, everything was afloat; I nearly cried, and I was so upset I started speaking German. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

German beer drinkers are fiercely loyal to their local brand, so there are no national brands in Germany analogous to our Budweiser, Miller, or Coors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flame left a black arrow on the ground, showing the Germans exactly where the gun was hidden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We must be cautious with registration, as there may be deserting German soldiers hiding among these refugees. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

So, while the Nazis did increase the number of new jobs by building and repairing roads, railways, and houses as well as building up their military, they also took employment away from other Germans. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The Germans sang lustier and more voices came in until they killed the parody even as they had killed “Auld Lang Syne.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped to the ground in fear when she saw a German soldier standing with his back to her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Traces of the German’s smell hang in her bedroom: an odor like vanilla. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Are you preparing for your recital, Isabella?” she asks in her thick German accent. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the question that many people had asked themselves, Americans and Japanese and Germans and everybody else in the war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But using her hands as planes, Lilya was able to describe the maneuvering of their aerial dogfight blow by blow, and the German pilot had to admit that this novice fighter had defeated him. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“The German bombers get caught up in their cables at night and crash.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Haupt told the official that he was a German boy who needed help or a job, and was there anything he could do for him? Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Mostly these men were all so desperate or confused by the time I appeared, with my neutral Swiss-accented German and comfortingly official checklist, that they were often gratefully cooperative, if not wholly bewitched. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He likes his classes in French, German, English, and math. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m the odd one out, I’m afraid. My mom’s family is German, and I think my dad's family was Scottish or something, but it was so long ago nobody knows for sure.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The German fighters tried to break up the Soviet formation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She, too, shot down a German fighter plane on the day of Katya’s death, and she was back in the air the next day as well. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I said good evening to Mr. Szymczak, our new neighbor downstairs, buying a German newspaper on the corner, and he just shook his head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The German army had prepared well, anticipating an Allied invasion of France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Under Schirach’s direction, fifty Hitler Youth members stormed the Berlin headquarters of the Committee of German Youth Association on April 3, 1933. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But when they turned for home, Irina saw a flash in the sky ahead of them and realized that it was a German night fighter aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One American was as good as twenty Germans. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

You’re a chemist, you have a German accent, you had a base on Mars . . . what more can there be? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A German shepherd came stalking around the corner of the house, and the older boy caught him by the collar and held him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They spoke to each other in German as they went from body to body. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s Germans that are attacking,” one of the medical officers said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But as they neared the German Fraternal Hall, he noticed that the area around it was strangely lit up. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her final humiliation and the triumph of the Aryan hero Parsifal were not very subtly concealed metaphors for what Wagner wanted to happen to German culture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Three days later, Madame Fontineau overhears that the German garrison commander is allergic to goldenrod. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I meant to wave, to send them an encouraging sign, but I froze in fear when I saw the German guards marching beside them, prodding them along with their rifles. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The youngest had just gone off with a German man when they discovered she was pregnant. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

All the Jews remaining in the city would be forced to live in the ghetto and would not be able to leave unless given permission by the Germans. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

One witness reported seeing a group of well- dressed people from a German saloon singing one tune after another while, a few tombstones away, a small congregation of Methodists held a prayer meeting. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A young Negro contralto was a rarity in German concert life, and many people came out of curiosity. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I stared down the stairwell, listening for a new invasion of Germans, but everything was quiet and still. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, they saw signs that the messages were in German. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

So the Germans let them have four sheds, though one shed would have held them all. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Larisa had managed to avoid the antiaircraft searchlights, and the German pilot's aim in the dark wasn’t accurate enough to destroy their plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There are two German officers sitting on my sofa. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If they run into Germans, he will speak only French, say he is helping her leave the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The train goes to Den Haag first, a city that seems like it's swarming with even more German soldiers than Amsterdam. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I bought a pair of heels, went to the cinema, and sat with Izio at night, breathing his smoke while German lights twinkled on the other side of the river. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Many of the secret messages came from British and German vessels. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“American troops are pushing into German soil. The Russians have captured back all of Romania. Only yesterday the Greeks in the Eighth Army captured Rimini. The Germans are on the defensive everywhere!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Before the Germans arrived, British intelligence officers set up hidden microphones all over Farm Hall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In January 1917, a German diplomat named Arthur Zimmermann sent a telegram in cipher to the German ambassador in Mexico City. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There’s a German boarding house at the end, where soldiers stay, mostly the ones who are with the police. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This onset too probably involved replacement of old Greeks and Germans by new Greeks and Germans, just as old gave way to new in the Philippines, Indonesia, and subequatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All sorts of animals, from German shepherds to chickens, have become the stable companions of racehorses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I ended he shook his head in disbelief and muttered a curse in German. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over in that room - and I don't need you to confirm it - there is gathered at this moment the British Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary and the German Ambassador. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In 1905, Edward Elgar, a fervent admirer of German music, described the British music scene as ‘vulgar, mediocre, chaotic and insipid’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It's disgusting, the way the Germans take our lovely things and poison them. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

No sooner had Ernest’s wire been dispatched than horrifying news arrived: the Athenia had been sunk by a German U-boat torpedo, in the war’s first attack on British shipping. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 1943, the Atlantic was full of German submarines and British battleships. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A German officer stood over him, his pistol still aimed at the dead man. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Brenner told me you were tutored in German. To cheer you up, here’s something a bit more interesting than the Talmud.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s being said in underground circles that the German Jews who immigrated to Holland before: the war and have now been sent to Poland shouldn’t be allowed to return here. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, those government purity specifications are based on what German breweries put into beer, and not on what American, French, and Swedish breweries like to put into beer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On that first day of class, Kappe also told them that the second goal of the mission was to "stir up trouble" to turn Americans against German Americans, Japanese Americans, and Italian Americans. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A German anti air battery shoots an American plane out of the sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The great German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later marveled at how easily she moved back and forth between art and science, between the “inspection of nature and the aims of painting.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Nazis, he concluded, were lying to the German people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they plot to murder German children in their beds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Whatever the spur, the lure of the violin proved irresistible, and predominantly German piffari wind bands were soon surpassed by predominantly Italian violin consorts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some days, she brings out cookies tells us stories of the old neighborhood when everyone was German or Irish and even some Italians down by Wilson Avenue. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the air, Allied planes based in Great Britain were raining bombs on German cities and industrial sites, killing tens of thousands of civilians. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Those tiny German beer companies are relatively inefficient. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the next morning, East German and Russian technicians had pushed all the way through to the eastern end of the tunnel itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The defense wall seemed unconquerable, and so, the Germans reasoned, if the Allies did attack, the attack would not take place on the Normandy beaches. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maman—her mother—is from Alsace and the children all speak German fluently. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They were the first to publish the English translation of The Communist Manifesto, written by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The first was a conversation with the distinguished German quantum physicist Otto Stern, a future Nobel laureate who was stopping at Berkeley during the holiday. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We know that Ernest Lawrence acquired the basic idea from an article in an obscure German technical journal, and we know the journal, the article, and its author. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There, Borgenicht asked for a salesman who spoke German, since his English was almost nonexistent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He was also a loyal Nazi, having been a member of the German American Bund. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

My tenth birthday, on September 15, 1939, passed unnoticed amid the confusion and uncertainty of those first weeks of German occupation. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Parisian walks in the same direction as the German soldiers, placing the heel of one foot against the toe of the other. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

German troops swarmed the area in search of the saboteurs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way up and down Unter den Linden, where the sidewalks were jammed with foreign visitors and provincial Germans, more than a million of whom had poured into the city in recent days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"Rembrandt!" the German agrees, and now I recognize him: the one from the square last night. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His lips were curled back over his teeth and Ben thought the dog was probably a combination of Great Dane and German police. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listens to the German move from the toilet toward her bedroom. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I flirt with German soldiers, but only because it saves me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“My father doesn’t, either. At least, I don’t think he does. He thinks Yiddish is almost holy. But it’s really from Middle German.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now his snoozing became shallower as he heard a man and a woman speaking German in pitying tones. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heisenberg and the other German scientists were still in Germany, where fission had been discovered. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 46th Guards dropped bombs over the Blue Line for six months, right up to the point when the Red Army forced the Germans out of the Taman Peninsula in September 1943. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This way the French and perhaps the whole world will learn that many Germans don't support Hitler and the war. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I yanked the German by the arm, pulling him aside. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

On her fourth flight of the day, Lilya and another pilot were returning from an escort mission when two German aircraft appeared from behind the clouds. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

One day Milo flew away to England to pick up a load of Turkish halvah and came flying back from Madagascar leading four German bombers filled with yams, collards, mustard greens and black-eyed Georgia peas. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In other words, Haupt would be obligated to the German government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In late December 1938, in the German capital of Berlin, a chemist named Otto Hahn set up a new experiment in his lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw newsreels of long lines of defeated German soldiers, just peacefully walking away from the battle, guarded by only a few Americans. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It just seems strange to me, your studying German.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A group of German soldiers is standing around a fire built in a trash bin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Off to the side stood fifty members of the United German Singing Societies. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Beilstein is the massive German compendium in 28 volumes, listing all the organic molecules known to chemists. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swiss/German, to be precise, which Swiss/Germans invariably are. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His cousin delivers fish wrapped in foreign newspapers, and he hears the Germans aren’t doing well in their war against Russia. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Hitler said Germans were superior and would not live among Poles. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As we approached, so did a frenzy of activity and a number of German soldiers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The German film industry had become one of Goebbels’s particular interests. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had been befriended by stout German farmers, whose guttural speech surprised her and whose well-kept farms astonished her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a German air raid that got ’em, if I’m not mistaken.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The Germans decreed that only 15,000 Jews would be allowed to remain in the city. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the world, in Europe, the Germans were saying similar things. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the stadium, most were being clad with natural stone, all of it German—more limestone from Franconia, basalt from the Eifel hills, granite and marble from Silesia, travertine from Thuringia, porphyry from Saxony. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"I would rather not fight against the German people," Haupt replied truthfully. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

German companies plant flags miles from Moscow; Russia will be theirs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Wilson didn’t explain to Poulsson why German physicists needed heavy water. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans chased down the train, searched the baggage, repatriated the glasses, and sent the Americans on to Berlin. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Which, I believe, is more or less what Altvatter means, translated from the German. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Whispers that while we were in the cellar a hundred Jews, old men and little boys, had been run all over Przemyśl, right up Mickiewicza Street, German soldiers beating them if they fell. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He didn't want to be a "rat" and renounce his German citizenship in a time of war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Weary’s version of the true war story went like this: There was a big German attack, and Weary and his antitank buddies fought like hell until everybody was killed but Weary. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it belongs to the Germans, confiscated for their Fatherland. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone reiterated my point by telling my stu-dents, “Don’t let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all Germans were Nazis.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I also knew that Henrik and his mother would think us cowardly if we left just because a few German submarines were off Curacao. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

King George had hired eight thousand German soldiers to fight alongside the British. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was the presence at the lab of James Franck, a German physicist of unassailable reputation who had devoted a great deal of careful thought to the social and political implications of atomic energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

BBC broadcast in German, Dutch, French and other languages at ten: The invasion has begun! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He spoke no English, and Billy and Weary understood no German. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are Jews,” I say, “and you are going to turn me over to the Germans...for saving Jews.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

These were not only Britons and Germans, but also Belgians, French, Italians, Swiss; they were diplomats and political persons of high rank; distinguished clergymen; retired military gentlemen; writers and thinkers. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh—things like guiding in the German pilot the other day. I’ve done something like that before, only in English.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“The Germans might find out and choose another road. I’m not sure about any of this. I’m just making assumptions.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Experiments of the German Gerhard Schramm, first published in 1944, reported that TMV particles in mild alkali fell apart into free RNA and a large number of similar, if not identical, protein molecules. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Despite being French, Berlioz may as well have been German, so keen was he to assume the Beethovean throne. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Under his direction more than 10,000 colonies of the red ant have been established in about 90 test areas in the German Federal Republic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The beam searches out the pine tree, the fencing, the lean-to....And then I see this big German shepherd, mean as nails, hunched over Shiloh there on the ground. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With rice, like in the dog. Currier is what makes the rice currier rice. It’s Curry in German.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The German army had taken everything—cars, petrol, radios, animals, food. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He says the Allied forces pushed the Germans back in Paris, but my heart broke to learn of the Tuscania being torpedoed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Marina Raskova’s other aviators were battling just as hard against the German invaders as the fighters in their Yaks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That could only mean he had been talking in a language I knew, either German or Romanian. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I got Dad his knife with the carved bone handle and the blade of blue German steel, and he gave me a pipe wrench, and we went looking for Demon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Treaty of Versailles forced the German people to accept full responsibility for starting the war. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The British were everywhere: they were fighting the Japanese in Burma, and they were fighting the Germans in North Africa. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Italian and German crews made similar accommodations for her. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Plenty of Jews had blue eyes and blond hair, and many Germans and Austrians, including Adolf Hitler, had dark eyes and hair. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In the next few months and years, the Reichstag would add dozens of additional laws restricting every aspect of the lives of German Jews, until, in effect, simply being Jewish was outlawed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the American boat, it took a moment for the boys to understand the German announcement. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Somewhere out there, German U-boats glide above underwater canyons, and thirty-foot squid ferry their huge eyes through the cold dark. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were part of the effort to keep the Germans away from the Soviet oil fields, which were so necessary to keep the gears of industry moving. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"Hitler believes that world peace can only come through German domination." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

By summer's end, the newspaper headlines scream about atrocities that Poles are committing against ethnic Germans. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They might have a common enemy in the Germans, but the non-Jewish boys constantly taunted and picked on the Jewish boys. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“French, German, Spanish, Italian, and enough Swedish to get along.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Just because Hitler speaks German doesn’t mean that the language is corrupt. It’s the most important scientific language in the world. What are you looking at me like that for?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The limp of a German sergeant major with a dead voice. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the span of a single second, the German, Italian, and American boats all crossed the line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As a German national, Frisch was barred from Oliphant’s main research project, a secret effort to develop radar. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“What you’re saying contradicts what I see and hear every day in my company,” said Ziegfried, a tall, bald-headed German who worked as senior manager for a large German electronics company in Johannesburg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Po-2s were in the air, the Germans never had a single moment’s rest. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The German troops had started firing at the Soviet planes overhead. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And all summer long, the German army fought and burned its way relentlessly toward the city of Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Things could not have been much worse if we’d invited Blake Grunwald over so he could do a German dance, then get drunk, start a fistfight, and puke his guts out all over my bed. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

You did not know any one who went over in German uniform to confuse them. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Atzerodt, the slow-witted German, did not know it, but he had just sealed his fate. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windows could be heard shutting as the Jews and Italians withdrew leaving the fight to the Germans and Irish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like other Germans, the boys had heard horrible whispers about places like Dachau. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

On a bench sits a goitrous and sallow German sergeant major with shadows carved under his eyes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The German stared at me, a combination of fatigue and frustration. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Downstairs the German has shouted twice in frustration, then fallen silent. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He told the German officials that he was an importer in America, hinting that Germany somehow benefited from his work. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It all happened so quickly that Nina could still see the distant fire of her own burning aircraft as the German soldiers led her away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There was an observation balloon tethered in a village occupied by the Germans so they could spot Soviet positions and tell their gunners where to fire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Looking at the rubble piles where buildings used to be, in the windows of the shops or watching the factory workers—the factories were all German now—go to and from their shifts. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This meant they would use assault weapons to blast or bum their way through the city blocks, taking out any Germans who resisted, house by house, if necessary. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But we were only a few blocks from the piazza when I thought I saw the German again, walking behind us at quite a distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gripped with pain and terror, Emilia spoke in fragmented German and Polish. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Today two more families would be in mourning in the town of Guadalupe, and indirectly the far-off war of the Japanese and the Germans had come to claim two victims in New Mexico. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I made those German gentlemen pay for the damage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fall, the SS-HJ were reorganized and sent to the Ardennes forest in France, where the Germans launched their last major offensive. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyone speak German?” shouted the officer in charge of the radio room. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In these houses lived Jews, Irish, Germans, and some Spanish Civil War refugee families that had fled the new Franco regime before the onset of the Second World War. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We waited, lying flat beyond the ditch along the main road while a German battalion passed, then when they were gone we crossed the road and went on to the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had been raised by a German family in Cairo, Illinois, and had come to St. Louis at the turn of the century to study nursing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adria and I had always imagined getting a little dog, like a Yorkie or a Chihuahua, but if my dad was set on a German shepherd, that was fine by me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Our goal was staying alive long enough for the Germans to lose the war and leave defeated. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She was like an East German swimmer at a local competition. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys yanked their strings and water cascaded down, not only on the Yugoslavians but also on some German police cadets who were trying to quiet them down. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One had been in the camps, and the other with Polish troops that had escaped to Russia to help fight the Germans. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The capture of this material,” Groves reported, “would seem to remove definitely any possibility of the Germans making any use of an atomic bomb in this war.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a German restaurant complete with sausages, sauerkraut, and beer steins hanging in rows over the bar, shining but unused. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Poet’s estate did exist, it was sure to be a shell of its former self, stripped and plundered by the German army. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It is a cheap brown plastic radio, with a simple dial and no shortwave so that it only receives German stations. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans find the documents; the deception wins the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the snow began to melt in Russia, Leningrad was completely surrounded by German troops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He said something in a German dialect to him. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

My apologies for the delay as well, I required assistance with my German. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Not an hour later, he snares something winging in out of the static: a simple broadcast in Swiss German. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The German people suffered from widespread poverty and unemployment. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Haukelid climbed into a car with the British officers, and they drove though a city battered by German bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a quote from a German preacher that summarized the outcome of what happens when no one takes a stand. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We stood on the street corners and watched the Germans march through our city. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The way he’s got nothing left? A German soldier never reaches this point. There’s a name for this look. It’s called ‘circling the drain.’” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was frightening to think that any “fit” German citizen could one day become “unfit,” or too unproductive to live. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Five thousand seven hundred Russians killed, forty-five Germans lost. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Not today, Mrs. Clarke. In fact, it is a rather melancholy German poem, which we are reading in translation. But you are welcome to stay nevertheless.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The German mathematician David Hilbert would say, “No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Had the neutron been isolated in the 1920s, they note, it is "very likely the atomic bomb would have been developed first in Europe, undoubtedly by the Germans." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In 1900, German experimenters tried to shed some light on the ultraviolet catastrophe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

June said something to him in German, and a reluctant smile took over his face. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Probably someone German,” she says, glaring at Richard, who is German but not strict or awful. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

After the German surrender, he brought one more argument to the table: using the bomb on Japan would fatally compromise America’s moral and humanitarian standing, undermining any efforts to create a workable international control regime. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Klavdiya climbed into one of the Po-2s that seemed to be okay, but as she was checking the cockpit for damage, the German fighter planes came back. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The first German residents of this town with no creek and no mill actually settled here during World War I, when Hate the Hun campaigns were heating up in other, more populated regions of America. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Helena Independent called Rankin “a dagger in the hands of the German propagandists, a dupe of the Kaiser...a crying schoolgirl,” even though a majority of her constituents opposed the war. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s German clock lay upside down on the floor with the little door on its back torn off. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys climbed out of the shell and stood at attention while a German band played “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

What would it mean to be German after the war? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hitler, peering through his binoculars, simply nodded enthusiastically each time a German boat crossed the line in first place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Germans, it turned out, had poisoned the river shore with an yperite mixture—more commonly known as mustard gas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Only the candles and the soap were of German origin. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was unusual for kids, even in our German neighborhood, to be so in love with Germany," said one of Haupt's friends. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Your Führer will allow you to donate what you will not need for the provision of the German Army...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“If you mean could they be wights,” said Hugh, “don’t be daft. The wights are with the Germans. They’re on that German sub.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I had dawdled too long and it was getting cold and I had visions of Napoleon at Moscow and the Germans at Stalingrad. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of its most ardent supporters, having developed a convenient collective amnesia about their roles in encouraging the German eugenicists, renounced the movement altogether. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I follow the strolling Saturday families of brightly wrapped Hindus and then the black-clad Hasidim, and step into all the old churches that were once German and then Korean and are now Vietnamese. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school we tell Brendan he has to ask the question tomorrow, What use is Euclid and all those lines that go on forever when the Germans are bombing everything? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For one hungry, wretched German soldier come five of the enemy, fresh and fit. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, the German bomb project was beyond his control. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marching was not their strong suit, certainly not compared to the Germans. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Within a week, the German army had all but crushed the Polish forces. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet I laughed bitterly at the white kids in ragged jeans who frolicked on the campus lawn tossing Frisbees and went about campus caroling in German at Christmas. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ambulance trains loaded with wounded German soldiers barreled toward the ports. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Saw that big German shepherd of Baker’s that gets loose sometimes, and saw a little old gray dog, but sure didn’t see that beagle.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The free Negroes, the Quakers, the Methodists, the German farmers, who helped runaway slaves in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, started using phrases and words suited to the idea of a railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately the German government recognized the value of these same chemicals as new and devastating weapons in man’s war against his own kind, and the work on them was declared secret. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

That he is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He quickly felt as if he had wandered into a German fairy tale. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But the sight of the German SS officers bringing up the rear stopped me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to understand almost all of Karl’s conversation, with its mix of German and English. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I had to wonder if there were Liberty Bonds and War Stamps enough for any Germans living here to prove their loyalty. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The failed invasion cost the Germans heavily: More than one million German lives were lost. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For those to whom such transportation has been forbidden by the German authorities, it can also be reached on foot. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I peeked out the window and heaved a sigh of relief when there were no German soldiers in sight. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Dieldrin, named for a German chemist, Diels, is about 5 times as toxic as DDT when swallowed but 40 times as toxic when absorbed through the skin in solution. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A group of Germans were singing a round. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, it turned out that the street instead commemorated Hermann’s father, Heinrich Goering, founding Reichskommissar of the former German colony of South-West Africa, which became Namibia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The joke was on the Germans this time though. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He expected them to stand endlessly in his doorway, his half German shepherd jumping up on them as he rambled on about the boiler. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had become the largest industry in the world, the most productive, the most sophisticated, outproducing the Germans by more than three times and the Japanese by nearly five. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A sort of mystical fairy tale, it romanticized and celebrated the simple life of German farmers living harmoniously with nature on their German soil. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Laughter floated up from the street, German voices joking back and forth as the patrol moved on to somewhere else. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

From Mother I would later learn it was Diego, a German shepherd Shawn had purchased a few years before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The attack on the church began in earnest in 1517, when a constipated German monk nailed a list of complaints to the door of the church in Wittenberg. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They were farmers from just across the German border, not far away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Campbell told what the German experience with captured American enlisted men had been. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy saw service with the infantry in Europe, and was taken prisoner by the Germans. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I began to wonder if die Germans would send soldiers too. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if the house was nested with Germans or Russians? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"Others were just patriotic Germans who wanted to get even with a 'traitor.'" Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It had happened when she and five other Soviet fighter pilots had flown into battle against a swarm of three dozen German bombers and fighters. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Wounded Germans in the tunnels below the fort of La Cite sleep. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Because German actors, actresses, producers, and directors were now all beholden to him for their careers, they began to flock around Goebbels, fawning over him and soliciting his favor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery—humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He knew the number of German Americans living in the United States and had compiled numerous charts, statistics, and personal information, such as their occupations and if they were Bund members. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Those of us who worried about such things assumed the wights were nearby, somewhere below us in that German submarine, waiting. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In Paris and Western Europe, the story was “essentially a one-day sensation,” with the West German press handling it “as if it were in the Chicago gangster tradition.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early in July, the German army made a huge effort to take control of the front in this region. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“A small gift might do the trick. Something to help the Germans put your name at the top of the list.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, the German troops at the front invented a name for the young women of the 46th Guards, who bombed them so relentlessly, three hundred times a night throughout the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The original writers show Tania scoring kill after kill as she guns down German planes and drops her bombs on German troops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“The rear guard are afraid of everything. The Germans know what they’re after.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But he had a history of taking over territories he considered German, and he and his ambassadors believed that people of German heritage owed “complete subservience” to their “home country.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A few days later I was at work at the glass factory and the foreman, a German man, came over to me and told me I had a phone call. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans were, of course, broadcasting in code, so—at least in the early part of the war—the British couldn’t understand what was being said. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But his boss had told him the strange story about the landing of German agents on Long Island and how the Coast Guard had run into a man with a streak of gray hair. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

"A plot to take over the German government! Germans must remain on ready alert!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you expect our boys to be as precise as that thousands of feet up with bombs weighing tons! Look at what the Germans did to Amsterdam! Look at what they did to Coventry!” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Germans tend to wear shorts no matter the weather. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The book was later confiscated by the German army, and it was eventually found in the basement of a castle in Germany by American soldiers in 1945, just before the Nazi surrender. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Reich Citizenship Law defined citizens to be any German national “of German or related blood” who “proves by his conduct that he is willing and fit to faithfully serve the German people and Reich.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As Masha’s burning plane sank lower, one of the German fighters flew so close that Masha could see his grinning, freckled face. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We have words over that, Karin and I. Very broken words in German and Polish. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The second question about the invasion was bound to arise: what should we do if the Germans evacuate Amsterdam? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

On the way, we saw' some young German girls. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a victory,” Galina said, “not over the German troops but over ourselves.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Other Germans were securing the hasps on the car doors with wire and spikes and other trackside trash. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two British planes loaded with firebombs landed right on top of the German Officers’ Club. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As a result, Germans grow up appropriately aware and apologetic. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes, she makes me think of the German girls, she looks so fresh and quiet, and dances like a lady.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But why do you burn your own schools and clinics, and kill your own people?” asked a short, stocky German named Hans. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 8, German soldiers burst into our building and once again forced their way into our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

James studied numerous subjects for the first time, including chemistry, economics, and German. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"The 301 stands for January 30, the day Hitler became our leader. Thanks to the Führer, every German can afford a new radio. All of Germany can tune in the Führer." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was upset enough as it was about his learning German. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In every town and village the Germans invaded, they took over and set up their own soldiers and government to occupy and replace the Soviet system. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Of course it made the Red Army soldiers even angrier at the Germans, but it also baffled them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was the only tiling I could think of to use for fighting the Germans. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if my food is German Army issue. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the areas that hadn’t already been taken over by the Germans, cities were on fire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

While the German economy was in a tailspin toward disaster, the Roaring Twenties were in full swing in America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In March, the German parliament endorsed the Enabling Act, granting Hitler unprecedented power to enact laws without parliamentary involvement. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A German archaeologist was coming over for dinner. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hope this doesn’t embarrass you, he wrote in German in his little book. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

What if Germans are right now marching from house to house, shooting whomever they please? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At dawn, German lookouts spotted Allied ships filling the Normandy coast. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the transmission was in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I came to tell you that the Germans are taking a thousand of us away. The younger men. To work in a labor camp.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Born to a German mother and Afghan father, the blond, blue-eyed Assef towered over the other kids. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And even though the stories Chaim told were terrible, of German planes shooting down the refugees on the road and the executions of innocent men, there was more laughter than tears. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Germans had the advantage of height, and the four competing Soviet aircraft weren’t prepared for battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

George Davis is a stool pigeon, an informer and a traitor to the German government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The Soviet army was drawing closer, and the Germans were throwing their energy into covering their tracks. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I scoffed as I scanned over an opinion piece calling for the assimilation of Eastern European immigrants into Chicago’s well-established German reform community. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The stolidity of the German woman underwent a sudden change. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Germans wouldn’t care so much about Jews in a village. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s quite a language. Yiddish is a lot like it. Yiddish was originally Middle German. When the German Jews came into Poland, they brought it with them.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Germans sorted out the prisoners according to rank. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After seeing just how well- disciplined the Germans were, he was beginning to take them very seriously. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The bow of the American boat had touched the line in 6:25.4, six-tenths of a second ahead of the Italian boat, exactly a second ahead of the German boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By early 9 if 3, the Soviet army had finally halted the massive German invasion just short of the Soviet cities of Stalingrad, Moscow, and Leningrad. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted Ellsberg to realize he’d blown the appearance of the German poet way out of proportion, and he got the message. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was a union that was popular with both Germans and Austrians. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But the family was so keen to learn good English that they hardly ever spoke German to me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

After visiting the dining room, where caterers from the North German Lloyd company served up hearty helpings of American-style food, most of the boys stretched out on their bunks to read or write letters home. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"Every day that Germans spend at the Russian front will be a gain for the British." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They saw the blue light of tracer bullets as the German night fighter fired at the trapped plane—missed—and fired again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Beyond the slates, a block away and thirty yards below, twelve German officers smile for cameras. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wandered the streets, watching the German soldiers and their tanks, the breadlines that stretched around the block. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Evidently not all minds of German youth have been poisoned by the Nazis....The Scholls will reeducate Germany. They are already doing so.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He complained that they would not let him play Beethoven; Jews were not allowed to play German music. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first nineteen articles of its constitution guarantee the inalienable rights of every German citizen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I cried when she cried, and just like her I wanted to know why the Germans were killing her people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lera’s plane sped down the runway, which was purposely unlit so that German aircraft couldn’t find it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“The spelling,” a fellow German said of Fuchs’s name, “sometimes caused people to pronounce it in a somewhat embarrassing way.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a German sentry poked his nose in here I don’t know how he’d not notice it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The Germans were already in our town, the Fascists were already in power, the verdict was already out—and the Jews of Sighet were still smiling. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guards with their vicious German shepherds stood over the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans and British were also eager to learn exactly how much these German scientists had figured out about building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The German forces hadn’t been halted in their furious bid for military supremacy over the USSR, but the front was no longer advancing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Aliens, yes,” Garret Charles continues, his accent growing thicker by the syllable, and bordering on German. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They were headed for the village of Krymskaya, where German troops were camped along the fortified Blue Line, Hitler’s offensive front in Crimea. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The cases also contained a variety of popular chess books and some incunabula printed in German. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Today’s papers, fresh from the presses!” he announced in German, thrusting a paper at me expectantly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The next day, Hitler lied to the German people when he announced that Polish soldiers had fired upon the German army. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After I left his command he attacked a German E-boat and held his fire trying to take it whole since none had ever been captured, and in the process he got himself sunk. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year after returning to Germany, he ran into Kappe and Dasch at a social gathering for Germans who had lived in America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I also learned some German from my parents. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Would a German girl open my desk and find my treasures inside? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

To a certain extent, Conant was bluffing, for the rising concern in Washington and the scientific community about a possible German bomb made an allied effort seem imperative, regardless of the prospects of success. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“And German and Spanish and Greek and a little Gaelic.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I smiled like an idiot and spoke half a dozen of the two dozen words I know in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

So, naturally, on May 7, which was the anniversary of the German surrender in World War II, Mr. Nossik dressed himself up as a Gestapo kommissar. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But the nations of Europe that were occupied by the Germans were still fully under their military control. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, the hobnailed boots of East German soldiers, patrolling the street above, echoed overhead. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

With every German we approached, we put our lives in danger. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In his simple remarks he confirmed for them that America was still great, still number one in the weekly top twenty poll, whatever the threat of the Japanese and the Germans and OPEC. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if it’s too late to transfer to German. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A fever grips the German people as they learn that the official lies near death in a Paris hospital. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The German rummaged through the cabinets, his pack near his feet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The beaches are devouring men—Americans, Canadians, Brits, Germans, Russians—and all through Normandy, heavy bombers pulverize country towns. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Forced to concede that an atomic bomb had destroyed Hiroshima, the German scientists began trying to figure how the bomb had been made. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans had ended my schooling shortly after I turned ten. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As the war dragged on, the Soviets found these repeated night attacks also affected the morale of the German soldiers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But out here in Saint-Malo, the dune grass grows long and blue; German sailors still run drills in the harbor; gunners still stockpile ammunition in the tunnels beneath the fort at La Cite. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

German bombs pounded British cities night after night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finding a ticket is difficult for most people now that the trains have been taken over by the German army for their own transportation. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mariya Smirnova, the squadron commander, noticed the silence and reasoned—correctly—that the only reason the antiaircraft guns would stop firing was because there must be German night fighter aircraft patrolling the sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“People were gracious, but the incident disturbed me. It kept haunting me and making me feel that I must find some way to become absolutely sure of my German.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The area would be enclosed with high walls; the few gates would be guarded at all times by German soldiers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As far as I understood, I wasn't taking part in a vendetta against the German race.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Open the door or we’ll break it down!” said another voice, this time in German. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

So there was no more unavoidable delay in the bathroom, and it wasn’t long before we were all speaking at least a pidgin variety of French and German. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danuta’s voice has taken on a ridiculous German accent, very accusing, which makes Helena giggle. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

To reach it, many people had to tramp through the site of the old German and Catholic cemeteries. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The victorious Nazis began to make Poland as German as possible. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the Germans were unprepared for the severe Russian winter, where temperatures fall to subzero. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Germans got tired of walking up all those steps. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The zoo was a prestigious social hot spot for many German people, but Jews hadn't been allowed in the park since 1939. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Bobby studied and practiced his German and was becoming semi-fluent after three months. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine. He said wanderlust., so what? If I say gesundheit when someone sneezes, it hardly means I speak German,” Maytag retorted. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The Brits could not look at the Germans without remembering the last war and worrying about a future one. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The assembly began with our cherubic lederhosen-and-Tyrolean-hat-wearing German Dance Club boys stomping their feet and slapping their naked pink knees. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was writing about Commando Special Forces, how popular and revered they were by civilians, but his dislike of their commander, a German mercenary, made his words stiff. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The German oarsmen were courteous but hardly gushing with enthusiasm to see them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Several professorships of “race biology” and racial hygiene were established at German universities, and racial science was routinely taught at medical school. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Four Americans, two Englishmen, and one German, all of whom are experts on the techniques of Michelangelo have thus far examined the statue. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would it be any less cruel to let those two German divisions down to fight with our troops? American lives are at stake, too, you know. Would you rather see American blood spilled?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I hear German voices, and I can feel the end of a gun barrel press against my neck. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

To make peace, the German government agreed to sign the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Like we had guessed, the Germans had been moving us around to avoid the approaching Allied attack. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The furious Germans ordered Nina to raise her hands. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Smuts spoke about the importance of supporting Great Britain against the Germans and the idea that England stood for the same Western values that we, as South Africans, stood for. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the balcony Goebbels, dressed in a light-colored trench coat and a fedora, applauded theatrically, almost clownishly, as each German boat crossed the line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was a blitzkrieg all over again, and the Germans met with great success. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When people began chipping away at the Berlin Wall, more joined in—including the very East German border guards who were supposed to protect it. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And of Charlie doing his duty, eager to finish off a German or two. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Their own Jewish religion, their own rich Jewish ethnic and cultural roots, they anesthetized, and cut off. . . until they began thinking of themselves as ‘ ‘Germans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the German army rolled across Poland and into Eastern Europe toward Russia, the SS Einsatzgruppen slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and western Russia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans had now been pushed back over the entire western border of the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Henri Bonnet said, “All that fighting we did twenty-five years ago. All those dead. Now the Germans back in France. In two days they’ll be here, taking everything we have. Who would have believed it?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Or maybe people will sit around and speak German, because the Germans will have won. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mac, who had studied in the German Democratic Republic, taught a course in Marxism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Modeled after one made by the famous German painter Albrecht Dürer, and depicted in Vincent's art manuals, it’s an open rectangle made of wood, strung with horizontal and vertical threads to make a grid. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Not unlike the German propaganda machine, which is cranking out lies twenty-four hours a day! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Nazi government had told them they were no longer welcome, that they were unworthy to live on German soil. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was no secret from the Germans, of course, or from the Russians, who occupied Dresden after the war, who are in Dresden still. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Pocock would later say that when they heard the strains of the German anthem they began to march deliberately out of step with the music. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The man in charge of our wagon called out to a German officer strolling down the platform, asking him to have the sick woman moved to a hospital car. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster—the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the German Consulate issued them German passports, they were American citizens—enemies of Hitler and the Nazi regime. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The German crew rushed to the side of the Yugoslavians. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But millions of other Germans were simply apathetic about the news of Hitler’s appointment. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

East Germans snuck out this "back door" by the thousands, before the Stasi had time to prevent their departure. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Farm ranchers, most of them, they are outdoor folk of very varied stock—German, Irish, Norwegian, Mexican, Japanese. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest remained behind for the German families. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His recommendation to the German government: if it wanted to do something about the epidemic, it needed to end the malnutrition, overcrowding, and poor hygiene. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They were written during the thirties, but much of it would still be up to date - after all, I do not imagine German bombs have altered our countryside so significantly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The three-legged German shepherd, which had been staring at him through opaque but threatening eyes, suddenly growled. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had risked part of her fellowship money to sing before an audience that knew the words of most German lieder by heart, and she worried that few people would even bother to show up. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Bobby loved languages and, in addition to being fluent in Spanish, was becoming adept at Russian and German. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the freezing cold of Bismarck, North Dakota, he’d been housed with German prisoners of war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The world had little sympathy for the suffering of the German people after the war,” said Jack. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Slept more than 24 hours, flat out, which is just as well because that was the day when the farm was simply crawling with German soldiers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

No one was completely sure if their money could be traced back to the German government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The gate to the ghetto is just down the street, a German policeman walking back and forth in front of it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Late at night on August 13, 1961, East German police and military units flooded the streets of Berlin's Eastern sector. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

From his own experiences in Vietnam and his reading of the German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, Van Riper became convinced that war was inherently unpredictable and messy and nonlinear. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The Germans first stormed through the cities of the Soviet states of Belorussia and Ukraine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Now the German troops would have to fight on front lines in both the east and the west of Europe. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But the ascent of Nazism sent an immediate chill through the German scientific establishment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The teacher twists the knob, tunes in the German Reich station, the RRG. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Europe’s invaded countries set up governments in exile in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, to make war plans as a group of “Allied” nations fighting together against German aggression. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All college students are being asked to sign an official statement to the effect that they “sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New Order.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And he told me about the concentration camps, and about how the Germans had made soap and candles out of the fat of dead Jews and so on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were aware,” he said of the Germans, “of what it might mean if they beat us to the draw.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I read about some photographers in an underground paper. They take pictures of the occupation. They document it, so when the war is over, the Germans can’t lie about what they did here.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Beneath them, the blackened ruins of Stalingrad were softened by a fresh fall of snow, and around them the Soviet air and ground forces were flattening the last German troops outside the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Ah, you understood! You do understand a bit of German. Wonderful. Well, you can think about a name. Good work, Joana.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The German ground troops didn’t want to hit their own aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I heard you tell Father one time about a German firing squad.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout September the Germans bomb cities and villages, leveling homes and buildings. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The German antiaircraft searchlights, which completely ruined your night vision, were a horror to the bomber pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All week long the RRG had boasted of great successes in Russia, one battle victory after another, with little or no German losses as the German army advanced on Smolensk. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“When we tell you to open the door, open the door!” the German officer told the adults. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Working methodically—and filming everything with movie cameras—the Soviets and East Germans finally reached the halfway point of the tunnel, where Harvey had set up a barrier of barbed wire and sandbags. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In this type of swift warfare, German dive-bombers attacked Poland from the air to support the tank assaults on the ground. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It is my guilt that I educated the German youth for a man who committed murder by the millions.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony crackle from the speaker, followed by an announcer who says in crisp German, "The BBC London presents the news in German." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible that there were Germans there. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The street below was filled with men, Jewish men, walking in lines, one behind the other, German guards with guns marching with them on either side. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Like French and German,” added another student, officiously showing off his learning. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In German American sections of New York, people danced in the streets. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

From scouting the area, they knew there were about thirty German guards at the nearby railway station. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German shepherd. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They starved through winter and into spring, dodging German patrols, waiting for their next job. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jews, Germans, Russians, Spaniards, all races and nationalities were represented without any distinctions whatever. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than a week after crossing the border into Poland, the Germans were in Kraków. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He demands the Sudetenland, where many Germans live, and gets his way. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans found and searched their bodies, then left the dead aviators for local villagers to bury. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And the Germans told everybody else to form in ranks of five, with Billy as their pivot. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I also wondered if she got text messages in German. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He falsified his political creed to the German Consulate. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

At school, the Polish boys wouldn’t play soccer with me anymore, and no Poles or Germans bought shoes from my father’s store. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

People gathered in private homes: no need to provoke the Germans. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is surprised to learn that she speaks fluent German, though they have only written each other in English. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

From street sweepers to hoteliers to government clerks, thousands of Germans now went ardently to work to make sure that, come August, the world would see Germany’s best face. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Germans continue to strike Poland hard and fast, in a new kind of warfare called a Blitzkrieg, a lightning-fast war. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Terrified that the Germans or the Japanese might be targeting the United States mainland, a front-page headline in the Los Angeles Times blared on July 27, “City Hunting for Source of Gas Attack.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It is unclear if the motive was the Germans’ nationality or their attempt to organize at the mine. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Dasch first started working as a radio monitor, he was worried that his rusty German was going to get him fired. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The German intelligence officer laughed when he said, "The trigger finger of the executing officers became tired." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

There were people speaking languages other than English: next to us was a tour group of Italians; across the way was a group of Germans. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I couldn't absorb the fact that we were now liberated, even as our enemies, the vanquished German soldiers, streamed past us by the hundreds. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“A group of children were seen along the road this morning,” the wight said, his voice clipped, accent obscure—not quite English, not quite German. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Those terrible Germans have oppressed and threatened us for so long that the thought of friends and salvation means everything to us! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As we were passing through some of the villages, many Germans watched us, showing no surprise. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans were now in full retreat as the American armies marched toward Nazi Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was important to Adolf Hitler that all Germans shared the same outlook on the world. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That day could have been the day for the German people to rise up in solidarity to support the Jews,” says historian Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And still more: that this new German religion was embodied and made incarnate in the person of its leader. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Fischer knew the German word for “draw,” and he immediately consented. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t see any guards, but I can see other prisoners trying to listen, and who knows which of them might decide that extra food or privileges are worth a betrayal to the Germans. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She held on to the sleeve of the German to steady herself. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Refugees fled frantically ahead of the German troops, and when they got stuck at river crossings, the German Air Force swooped down overhead and fired their machine guns into the waiting crowds. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A German infantry corporal squints up from the street. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The capital of Russia, Saint Petersburg, was renamed Petrograd in 1914 because “burg” sounded too German. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He stops the engines and yells at me in German and Polish. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It will puzzle the Germans when they examine the wreckage. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Why were British cities still using gas street lighting into the 1920s, long after U.S. and German cities had converted to electric street lighting? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

According to ancestry.com, my great-great-great uncle was a “spotter” during World War One—he floated over the battlefield in a hot-air balloon and peered down into the German trenches. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Aureliano continued getting together in the afternoon with the four arguers, whose names were Alvaro, German, Alfonso, and Gabriel, the first and last friends that he ever had in his life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Two nights later, on February 1, Hitler addressed the German people for the first time over the radio. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He frowns and turns to Emilika, says something in German, then switches to a very broken Polish. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Wait," he calls out in his perfect German accent. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tanya, my navigator, grabbed the megaphone and shouted insults at them in German. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Old Mrs. Immerglick and her family were being dragged away by German soldiers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

President Roosevelt had decided to take Americans as prisoners of war as well as Germans, Italians, and Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her father, an orchestra violinist, had spoken out against the Germans, which had caused her family's arrest. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A German woman sitting with Cummings refused to salute. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m Joana. I worked as a physician’s assistant for a few years. I’m not German. I’m Lithuanian. Is that a problem?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A little while later they came out smoking cigars, talking contentedly in the mellow lower register of the German language. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo was dumfounded when he stepped down to the ground and found a contingent of armed M.P.’s waiting to imprison the German pilots and confiscate their planes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

What was the reply of the German Government? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Having German ancestry did not mean you liked the Nazis, of course. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The article was reprinted in German, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Icelandic, and even the Russian chess journalists made mention of it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To many German people, the vast army of working young people looked impressive. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent takes classes in German, Dutch, math, history, geography, botany, zoology, gym—and drawing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The German boys and the Italian boys were already in their boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And if the mission was a success, Dasch was promised a powerful position in the German government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Boghetti coached her in Italian, hut she found it difficult to master the German lieder that were an important part of any recital. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Was in the German Army and, briefly, the U.S. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Most of the prisoners in this camp, like the last one, were Polish, German, or Russian. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even if she could miraculously slip past the German, there is no promise that the streets will be safer than the house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Emilia reached out and touched the German’s knee. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear me? The Germans are in Lithuania!” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“The Germans need good, healthy workers here in the ghetto,” the director said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The German woman’s voice rang out from a speaker somewhere above his head. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The original German expresses a more subtle and complex idea than the English words in which it is so frequently quoted. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The candidate seems to know nothing about technical terminology, naming all animals in colloquial German, and avoiding systematic nomenclature,” one of the examiners wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And my heart was up there with him, scouting for Germans. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In another part of Switzerland, the Swiss peoples speak French; in another part German; and yet another tiny part Romansch. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Using a new style of attack known as blitzkrieg, German for “lightning war,” Hitler’s planes, tanks, and soldiers slashed deep into Polish territory. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remains, watching Jews and Germans digging together. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It appeared that amidst the chaos outside, the Germans were preparing and insisting on a very orderly boarding process. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was as if one was speaking German and the other French. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In 1933 the Nazi government seized power in Germany under Adolf Hitler, and by the mid-1950s the Germans were building an impressive modern air force of their own. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the German beer industry suffers from small-scale production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s demolished a house, he says, ruined when the Russians were fighting the Germans, but this wood is still okay, and what would I want with a lot of old wood, anyway? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

According to the Christians, the Jews are blabbing their secrets to the Germans, denouncing their helpers and causing them to suffer the dreadful fate and punishments that have already been meted out to so many. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"German battleships and submarines operating in the Atlantic sank 367,800 tons of merchant vessels from March 16 through March 23," says the announcer. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Po-2s were hard to see in the dark as they bumbled along, and the German fighters couldn’t fly slowly enough to get an easy shot at them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Javier wrote her a long letter after his father died three years ago, and said he’d finally become a professor of biochemistry at the University of Prague, lecturing in Russian, German, and Czech. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, signs say, Germans holed up in underground tunnels to fight to the last man. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He told them to head back to the U-boat, forgetting to hand over the bag of German uniforms. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But the way the French see it, the Germans destroyed civilization here in Europe and no punishment is too bad for them. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw in a store once some German posters for retrospective festivals of her work. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seemed as if folks were seeing German spies and seditionists under every patch of buffalo grass. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She thought it was important that I should realize that though Hitler and the Nazis were evil, there were also ordinary Germans who did not like Hitler. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Save us a table for three," I said to the German. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

With complete control of the country in his hands, Hitler began persecuting German Jews, stripping them of their legal rights, kicking them out of universities and government jobs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows that a good German puts loyalty and self-sacrifice ahead of all personal interests. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

During one ten-month period she gave 123 concerts in fifteen different countries, performing a repertoire that included over two hundred songs and arias in German, Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, and other languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He immediately reported this to Pim, who went to the private office, tuned the radio to a German station and locked the door. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Once this is understood, the disagreeable behavior of American enlisted men in German prisons ceases to be a mystery. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around four P.M., a small company of German soldiers strolls up the rue Vauborel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And then I prayed a thousand times more agony on the Germans. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were gathered around the blanket now, watching Fremantle perform, and everyone was laughing except the Prussian, Scheiber, a stocky man in a stained white suit, who was annoyed that no one could speak German. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis call these leaflets enemy propaganda, designed to undermine German morale. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Whether they were trying to find friends and family, like I was, or doing business with the Germans, I couldn’t tell. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Off-season business can't be easy to come by, especially not since the Germans have blocked so much of the coastline with barriers against the invading Allies. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was what the Germans called their president now. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were fat Dutch bams, prim German orchards. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably, German physicists were already working on an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on our way we met some prisoners who whispered to us: “Go back to your block. The Germans plan to shoot you. Go back and don’t move.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aided by bucklers and their own agility, the Spanish got in between and underneath the Germans’ long pikes and were able to hurt them at their pleasure, without the Germans having any remedy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The officers at the table talk with indignation about other numbers: the Eighth and Fifth German Armies retreat north through Italy, the Tenth Army might be encircled. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They set them up in the back bedroom, and the German conversation and the banging are loud. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Germans, a gardener claims, have sixty thousand troop gliders; they can march for days without eating; they impregnate every schoolgirl they meet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Five German generals were killed near Cherbourg and two taken captive. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"We have shown Poland that they cannot dictate policy to us. Germany is for Germans. True Germans." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

East German citizens didn't wait around to find out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Despite hiring an investigator, spending thousands of francs, and poring through reams of German documentation, Marie-Laure and Etienne were never able to determine what exactly happened to her father. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As Schindler strolled past us in conversation with a German officer, I suddenly felt that I must do something, anything, to prevent our being sent back. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He could not decide for certain whether the voice was German, French, or Spanish. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His little Navy was scattered all over after die Germans took Holland. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is my guilt, which I will have to carry before God and the German nation,” he told the court. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The few problems that did arise, it was asserted, were caused by “certain types,” namely the rising numbers of poor Irish, German, and Scandinavian immigrants. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the airmen made their descent, the Germans sprayed them with bullets. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Like so many other Po-2 night bomber regiments on the front, their strategy was to keep the German troops awake all night. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Poland surrenders, and trains filled with victorious German troops receive a jubilant homecoming. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stern barked impatiently, or as John Lawrence, a witness to the encounter, recalled Stern’s words in his own fractured German: “Sie mussen Zurich gehen!”His meaning was clear: “Get back to the lab!” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Adolf Hitler was demanding a big piece of Poland, claiming it rightfully belonged to Germans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a big black and gray German shepherd, and he loved to play with the garden hose. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you really have German shrapnel in your leg?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Germans stationed in France fill their duffels with items rationed or no longer available at home due to wartime restrictions. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

This proof of a German theory by British scientists was hailed as a great act of reconciliation between the two countries after the war. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nazi propaganda portrayed the events of that night as a spontaneous demonstration against Jews as retaliation for the killing of a German diplomat in Paris by a young Jew named Herschel Grynszpan. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I straightened my back and walked briskly to the desk, smiling as if the German sitting behind it were the only person in the world I’d ever wanted to sell something to. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In less than three days, German Army vehicles made their appearance on our streets. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way, Hitler built up the German military. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By December 1942, as another harsh Russian winter began to settle in, the Soviets managed to get the German army surrounded at Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My Polish papers would not do, said the little German man from behind the desk, one finger pushing up his wire-rimmed glasses, because I had never provided proof of my birth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The identity card of the German soldier that the Polish girl had killed in the forest. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A German policeman patrolled back and forth in front of this gate, and when he saw me staring, he yelled and waved his machine gun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kraków was filled with Germans who wanted to make a profit from the war. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The German people also had to pay an enormous sum of money, called reparations, for war damages. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

What good was a degree in German literature going to do me? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, have you studied any foreign languages yet? French? Italian? German?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

According to the swimmer Iris Cummings, the slavish nationalism was a joke to the Americans, but not to the Germans. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Enraged German commanders were already sending out a ten-thousand-man German force to track down the saboteurs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid there are no good German prisons.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge,” I said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She’d shot down one of the German planes when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her leg. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Mantell’s twisted spine remained on display at the Hunterian Museum for nearly a century before being mercifully obliterated by a German bomb in the Blitz. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

With Britain still under attack from German bombers, they agreed the actual work of building a bomb would 4 6 be done in America. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Poncz talked about his German Jewish friends and their loyalty to everything German,” Jack recalled. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not only that, but he had begun to use English translations of the German works he had been reading, and they did nothing but confuse him even more. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“And also J for Jew. And 1 for me, alone. I am very, very much alone. And 9 is for . . . well, in English it is pronounced ‘nine,’ which is like the German word for no. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, the treaty forbade an Anschluss, or “union,” between Austria and Germany, even though a large population of ethnic Germans lived in Austria. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Would the Germans decide to murder all of us before they left? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Tsalig, who was always looking out for me, I, too, started working for the brush maker, stringing bristles through a board to make brushes for the Germans. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The German turned to look at me with his cold blue eyes, then nodded to the Jewish policeman, who carried a sack. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then Kabuo went forward with his rifle and squatted beside the German boy, on his right, and the boy put his hand on Kabuo's boot and shut his eyes and gave out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was, perhaps, no more bizarre illustration of the conflation between cleansing and racial cleansing than a law that barred Jews from employing “German maids” in their houses. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

British intelligence soon learned that German commanders had assigned extra soldiers to guard Vemork, night and day. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina saw the pale searchlights sweeping across the sky, hunting for the German aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Not every German family could afford a radio, but those who could gathered around, eager to hear what the new chancellor would say. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The men had been French for the most part, but also German, Persian, Italian, Lebanese. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had made greater contributions to Germany than Germans themselves had. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prussian Junkers didn’t quite blend with other Germans. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“They all thought that civilized Germans would not stand for anything really rough.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Basking in the applause of his German hosts, he exulted: “No nation since ancient Greece has captured the true Olympic spirit as has Germany.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the sweeping sound made by the Po-2s’ canvas wings as they dived low over the German troops in the dark. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We had the one German suitcase, my mom, my sister, and I. We didn’t know where to go, because this wasn’t a vacation. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I can read German fairly well by now, except that I usually mumble the words instead of reading them silently to myself. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Germans, he added, were probably “far ahead on the bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z