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Sep 13, 2017 · Sep 14, 2017 at 9:33. 2. You can use the account number and routing number from the SEPA Ueberweisung form and punch them into for example Transferwise (had good experience with them). Currently the EUR 10 fine would be $14.50 with them (including a $3 fee, very reasonable).
- The letter does look like a German traffic ticket and claims to be issued by the competent authority. If time and location ( Autobahn 65 between L...
- I figured it out! tl;dr: Find a SEPA slip to pay the ticket fee to get the bank account details, use a inexpensive international wire transfer serv...
- several thing are suggesting me that it is legitim: that is how speed tickets are emitted Germany, with a camera and you get the fine ticket per ma...
- I had the same problem and it's surprisingly difficult They don't accept credit cards which would be the most convenient for all parties involved I...
- I recently received a letter from Europcar informing me of a traffic violation incurred in Rastatt while driving their rental car, they were oblige...
Nov 16, 2023 · During World War II, the U.S. national debt-to-GDP ratio almost doubled, from 61 percent of GDP to 113 percent. By contrast, the United States would enter a conflict today with debt already in ...
American loans to the Allies worth $7,000,000,000 between 1917 and the end of the war maintained the flow of U.S. arms and food across the Atlantic. U.S. Army recruits at Camp Pike, Arkansas, in 1918, following the United States' entry into World War I in April 1917. The American military contribution was as important as the economic one.
- On The Character and Ability of American Soldiers in Battle
- On Americans as Prisoners of War
- On Being A Prisoner of War Under The Americans
- On The Sartorial Charms of American Troops
- On The Relationship Between American Officers and Their Subordinates
- On Americans Being Good Occupiers
- On Americans Being Bad Occupiers
- Americans as Voracious and Rash Consumers
- American Troops' Relationship with German Women
- On American Motivation For Entering The War
1. “I fought in campaigns against the Russian Army, the Serbian Army, the Roumanian Army, the British Army, the French Army, and the American Army. All told in this war I have participated in more than 80 battles. I have found your American Army the most honorable of all our enemies. You have also been the bravest of our enemies and in fact the onl...
7. “The Americans were what might be called bad prisoners. A group of 14 were brought in one day and when asked about their units refused to talk. They refused to work and talked back to the officers, much to the annoyance of the officers and the concealed delight of the men.” —Paul Heinman 8. “The Americans were the chief complainers when the food...
9. “Prisoners of war under American jurisdiction continue to send home glowing reports of good treatment. It is clearly deducible that they are more satisfied with their present condition, than they would be at home” —Postal Censorship, April 12, 1919
10. "[American] officers are not well dressed….All officers in the German army even when in active field service have one or more trunks and from time to time are allowed to leave for the purpose of obtaining uniforms.” —Michael Hoffman of Rech 11. “The American army seems to me as fine a collection of individual physical specimens as I have ever s...
12. “[American] troops lack the snap and precision of the German soldiers but…the cordial relations between the officers and men more than make up for the lack of iron discipline.” —Anton Liersch, Postal Agent in Dernau 13. “The attitude of the American officer towards enlisted men is very different than in our army in which officers have always tr...
14. “We were informed that your men were inclined to be rough, and the impression was left with us that we had a very serious time before us…but today, after living 24 hours with them, we have no longer andy apprehension. They are wonderfully mild mannered men and a great contrast to the domineering attitude of our own soldiers. Your troops, not ev...
20. “The citizens of Eich who were fined for having a dirty yard and premises claim that their trial was unfair, and that the fines were too heavy. One of them says that American soldiers were partly responsible for the condition of his yard.” —U.S. Army report, April 17, 1919, in Trier 21. “The young girls complain of the requisitioning of all pub...
26. “[I run] a store in Brohl, where among other things candy and cookies are sold to American soldiers…[I can] make a profit because the American soldiers will pay the price that I must ask, while the civil population would not.” —Herr Stenzel 27. “They have lots of money and buy foolishly. Articles that just before our occupation were sold to the...
30. “Great activity here at present. We have a large aviation field. Seven out of ten of the population are Americans. Many of the girls have fallen deeply in love with them. A new song has already been composed, as follows: Wo steht denn das geschriben. Du sollst nur Deutsche lieben? Man liebt doch auch America. Translation:—“Where does one find i...
36. “[I] like the American soldier individually but do not like the nation as a whole…America entered the war for what money she could get out of it.” —Frau Frieda Fischer of Lohndorf 37. “A German officer said that the Americans came over here only to see the world and for the sake of adventure.” —Mrs. Anton Bursch, shopkeeper in Echternach 38. “Y...
Feb 27, 2023 · Washington is slowly waking up to the fact that Germany’s Zeitenwende is a mirage. German defense spending this year is expected to be about €50 billion, falling well short once again of NATO’s target of 2 percent of GDP. As ever, Scholz and other German politicians are promising to reach the target soon. Advertisement.
Nov 19, 2021 · By Dec. 12, 1941, the world was transformed. One of the last surprises in this book is how many world leaders saw accurately from that moment how the future would unfold. “I feel a really ...
On December 11, 1941, Nazi Germany declared war on the US. This is shortly after America declared war on Imperial Japan following the Pearl Harbor attack. While a shocking decision to many experts at the time, the move was because of provocations by the U.S. government while it was still officially neutral in WWII.
