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Befehl (pl. Befehle) – order, command. "Zu Befehl!" was an affirmative phrase on par with "Jawohl". Befehlshaber – commander-in-chief; lit. "one who has (the power to issue) commands." Sometimes also used to refer to the headquarters of a C-in-C as an alternative to Hauptquartier. Benzin – gasoline, petrol. Benzintank – fuel tank.
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...
Reichsmarschall (German: Reichsmarschall des Großdeutschen Reiches; lit. ' Reich Marshal of the Greater German Reich ') was a military rank that held the highest position in the office of the Wehrmacht specially created for Hermann Göring during World War II.
The BBC Pronunciation Unit, also known as the BBC Pronunciation Research Unit, is an arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) comprising linguists (phoneticians) whose role is "to research and advise on the pronunciation of any words, names or phrases in any language required by anyone in the BBC". [1]
Führer (/ ˈ f jʊər ər / FURE-ər; German: ⓘ, spelled Fuehrer when the umlaut is unavailable) is a German word meaning "leader" or "guide".As a political title, it is strongly associated with Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation. Words that are spelled with letters that were never pronounced or that were not pronounced for many generations or even hundreds of years have increasingly been pronounced as written, especially since the arrival of mandatory schooling ...
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Members of the Hitler Youth in Berlin performing the Nazi salute at a rally in 1933. The Nazi salute, also known as the Hitler salute, [a] or the Sieg Heil salute, is a gesture that was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany.