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The use of alternative terms like "Chef" (a borrowing from the French, as is the English "chief", e.g. Chef des Bundeskanzleramtes) or Leiter (often in compound words like Amtsleiter, Projektleiter, or Referatsleiter) is usually not the result of replacing of the word "Führer", but rather using terminology that existed before the Nazis.
Soon after Adolf Hitler was appointed as chancellor in 1933, the German Reichstag (parliament) passed the so-called Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz), officially titled "Law for Removing the Distress of People and Reich" (German: Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich), which effectively gave the chancellor the power of a ...
General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.
Also, hooray for science in the crossword! TROPE (46D: Overused plot device) I really enjoy the word TROPE, both the sound of it, and its meaning. A TROPE is a storytelling device, used to convey ...
What I Learned from Today’s Puzzle. KAREN (28A: Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer ___ O) Yeah Yeah Yeahs is an indie rock band whose member are KAREN O (vocals and piano), Nick Zenner (guitar and keyboard ...
FdM – Führer der Minensuchboote; FdU – Führer der Unterseeboote; Commander-in-Chief of U-boats (used from World War I to 1939, when the title was reduced to "Regional Commander"). FdV – Führer der Vorpostenboote; Feigling – coward. Feind – enemy. "Feindlich-" is used as an adjective, such as "feindliche Truppen" (enemy troops) or ...
The German Army (German: Heer, German: ⓘ; lit. ' army ') was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, [b] the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. [4]
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Wednesday or Thursday" in difficulty. [7] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.