In March 1941 Hitler made a decision to "turn this region into a purely German area within 15-20 years."

At worst, these mobile forces were themselves encircled, only to be destroyed or driven from the German rear area when summer arrived.

During the Communist era, this German area was preserved, and the original architecture is still in place.

The first kindergarten outside the German area was founded in 1851 in London.

The three came down in a German tank-bivouac area.

Since German industrial areas were being destroyed in the war, their civilian population had to be evacuated.

This agreement, however, was only short-lived as it cut the German areas of influence off the sea.

The nation was rural and poor; the richest areas were in the former German areas in the west.

It is the most populated of all German administrative areas of the kind.

Triumph was also used for covert operations, such as landing agents in German occupied areas.