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| | Germans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Unlike these ethnic German repatriates, most non-German ethnic minorities in the country, including many who were born and raised in the Federal Republic, remain non-citizens. | | | These changes have led to renewed debates (especially in the Federal Republic of Germany) about who should be considered German. | | | In addition, a significant number of German citizens (close to 5%), although traditionally considered ethnic Germans, are in fact foreign-born and thus often retain the cultural identities and languages or their native countries, a fact that clearly sets them apart from those born and raised in Germany, in the eyes of the latter. |
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| | German Confederation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Later to emerge as the dominant German state, the political base of a united Germany, and a power that would vie for continental preeminence toward the end of the nineteenth century, Prussia was at that time seemingly backward. | | | Inspired by the Napoleonic organization of German and Italian principalities, the reforms of Karl August von Hardenberg and Count Stein were conservative, enacted to preserve aristocratic privilege while modernizing institutions. | | | The Confederation was dissolved in 1866 after the Austro-Prussian War, and was 'succeeded' in 1866 by the Prussian-dominated North German Confederation, with a significantly altered territory, e.g. |
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| | Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | That year, the German Communist Party was established by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, and in January 1919 the German Workers Party, later known as the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party, NSDAP, "Nazis"). | | | This was exacerbated by a wide-spread right-wing (monarchist, völkische, and Nazi) Dolchstoßlegende, a political myth which claimed the German Revolution was the main reason why Germany had lost the war, decried the Revolutionists as traitors (Novemberverbrecher = November criminals) and the political system born of the Revolution as illegitimate. | | | Some German cities have seen a revival of Jewish culture, particularly in Berlin, where there are also 3,000 Israelis. |
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| | German Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Numbering over 47 million, German Americans are the largest self-reported ethnic group in the United States. | | | The Alien Registration Act of 1940 required 300,000 German born U.S. resident aliens to register with the federal government and restricted their travel and property ownership rights. | | | [13] The war evoked complex reactions among German Americans at the time, many of whom severed relationships with relatives in Europe and downplayed their ethnic heritage to blend with prevailing American culture. |
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| | German Conservative Party - encyclopedia article about German Conservative Party. |
| | The German Conservative Party (Deutsche Konservative Partei or DKP) was a German political party political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. | | | , and most of its supporters turned to the new German National People's Party German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei) (DNVP) was a right wing national-conservative party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. | | | the party, which had gradually been losing votes as German moved from rural areas to new industrial centers, also opportunistically embraced anti-semitism Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility towards or prejudice against Jews (not, in common usage, Semites in general — see the Scope section below). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Germany |
| | Up to 1591 their aim was to bring about a union of all the German Protestant princes, including the Lutheran, for the purpose of enforcing the claims of Protestantism in south-western Germany. | | | The German bishops also yielded more and more to the authority of Rome; the Ottonian theory of government was already undermined. | | | Charlemagne's German policy, therefore, was not a mere brute conquest, but a union which was to be strengthened by the ties of morality and culture to be created by the Christian religion. |
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| | After the occupation of the Baltic states by German troops, there was some hope that a re-emigration could take place, but permission was denied by the German authorities in 1941. | | | Later, the Baltic Germans faced fierce attacks from the Russian nationalist press, which accused the Baltic aristocracy of separatism, and advocated closer linguistic and administrative integration with Russia. | | | A characteristic trait of this epoch was the impact of the Enlightenment and German Romanticism on Baltic German intellectuals. |
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| | German-American Bund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The German-American Bund, or "German American Federation," was an American Nazi organization established in the 1930s. | | | The first was a Jewish boycott of German goods in the heavily German neighborhood of Yorkville on the Upper East Side of New York City. | | | With the start of World War II most of the Bund's members were placed in internment camps, and some were deported at the end of the war. |
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| | German language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Outside of Europe and the former Soviet Union, the largest German speaking communities are to be found in the USA and in Brazil where millions of Germans migrated in the last 200 years; but the great majority of their descendants no longer speak German. | | | Standard German is rarely spoken, for instance when speaking with people who do not understand the Swiss German dialects at all, and it is expected to be used in school. | | | The High German varieties spoken by Ashkenazi Jews (mostly in the former Soviet Union) have several unique features, and are usually considered as a separate language, Yiddish. |
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| | I would argue that it was this transformation of the German Empire into the evil empire that enabled the American people in general and President Wilson in particular to put an end to the deeply ambivalent U.S. policy toward Europe of the years 1914- 1916, a policy that could not be maintained indefinitely. | | | It is equally well-known that a large part of the German public had drawn the conclusion from the deliberately vague wording of Wilson's state- ments that the American president was actually demanding also the abdication of the emperor and the transition to a German republic. | | | The United States chose to interpret German unity from this providential perspective, as it had done with other national and democratic movements in Europe during the nineteenth century, be it in Greece, Hungary, Italy, or a republican France. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Germany |
| | Up to 1591 their aim was to bring about a union of all the German Protestant princes, including the Lutheran, for the purpose of enforcing the claims of Protestantism in south-western Germany. | | | The German bishops also yielded more and more to the authority of Rome; the Ottonian theory of government was already undermined. | | | In 1394 the nobles with Jost, Margrave of Moravia, as their leader, took the king prisoner; he was soon set free at the instance of the German princes, but his release did not do away with the rule of the nobility in Bohemia. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Centre Party |
| | Of the 397 members of the German Reichstag, the Centre claimed 63 in 1871; 93 in 1877; 94 in 1878; 100 in 1881; 99 in 1884; 98 in 1887; 106 in 1890; 96 in 1893; 102 in 1898; 100 in 1903; 109 in 1907; 92 in 1912. | | | This name is given to a political party in the German Reichstag and to a number of parties in the diets of the various states of the German Empire. | | | During this period the uniform civil code for the German Empire was drawn up, the German colonial polity was guided into sounder channels, and foreign respect for the empire ensured by the creation of a strong fleet and by the development of military resources. |
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| | German language - Wikipedia |
| | Standard German is rarely spoken, for instance when speaking with people who do not understand the Swiss German dialects at all, and it is expected to be used in school. | | | The High German dialects spoken by Ashkenazi Jews (mostly in the former Soviet Union) have several unique features, and are usually considered as a separate language, Yiddish. | | | Central German dialects include Ripuarian, Luxembourgish, Moselle Franconian, Rhine Franconian, Hessian, Thuringian, and Upper Saxon, and are spoken in the southeastern Netherlands, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg, parts of France, and in Germany approximately between the River Main and the southern edge of the Lowlands. |
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| | German Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In response, British imperialists such as Joseph Chamberlain thus concluded that formal imperialism was necessary for Britain because of the relative decline of its share of the world's export trade and the rise of German, American, and French economic competition. | | | Less preoccupied by continental power politics following unification in 1871, Germany's semi-parliamentary government carried out a relatively smooth economic and political revolution from above that pushed them along the way towards becoming the world's leading industrial power of the time. | | | After 1878, the struggle against socialism would unite Bismarck with the Catholic Centre Party, bringing an end to the Kulturkampf, which had led to far greater Catholic unrest than existed beforehand and had strengthened rather than weakened Catholicism in Germany. |
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| | Ethnic Germans were thus far more likely to seek mates outside their nationality after the deportations than they were before the dispersal. | | | The failure of Wiedergeburt and other ethnic German organizations in advancing the goal of political and cultural autonomy for the German-Russians has prompted most ethnically conscious Germans in the USSR to emigrate to Germany. | | | Even today the ethnic Germans of the former Soviet Union have been unable to return to the areas from which Stalin deported them, primarily the Volga and Ukraine. |
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| | That year, the German Communist Party was established, and in January 1919 the German Workers Party, later known as the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party, NSDAP). | | | As of 2005, the CDU is predicted to win the German federal election, 2005 with candidate Angela Merkel and it has been speculated she will cancel the phase-out (compare [1]). | | | Some German cities have seen a revival of Jewish culture, particularly in Berlin, where there are also 3,000 Israelis. |
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| | October 1992: Ethnic Germans in Kazakhstan have held their first national congress to voice support for the demand put forth by Germans residing in Russia for the restoration of a German autonomous republic which was liquidated after Nazi Germany attacked Russia in 1941. | | | The session was attended by representatives of ethnic Germans from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. | | | In his letter the German chancellor assured ethnic Germans that despite limited possibilities Germany was prepared to take back all those wishing to return to their historic motherland and that large-scale support would be given to all former labor army members who remained in Kazakhstan (ITAR-TASS). |
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| | German-Canadian -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | The population of the Canadian west beginning in 1896 drew further large numbers of German immigrants, mostly from Eastern Europe. | | | In part this is because the great waves of German immigration were many decades ago and since then Germans have been largely assimilated. | | | Only a minority of German Canadians are descendents of immigrants from what is today (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany. |
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| | German involvement in the labor movement did not sit well with nativists, who, in the last decades of the 19th century, were again seeking support for anti-immigration laws. | | | Promoting German culture did not mean abandoning the new homeland; indeed, many German Americans believed that the national interests of Germany and the United States were complementary, so that support for the one would ultimately benefit the other. | | | Americans of German descent spring up in virtually every occupation, live in every state, and hold a spectrum of political and religious beliefs. |
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| | German unilateral actions were not at all planned, and they widened a gap that still exists in the Gemman political elite between awareness of the new responsibilities that united Germany has, and the inability to create a suitable strategy. | | | The German diplomats even had aces up their sleeves: they were in a position to remind the French that they had backed them againKst the Americans on issues concerning European defense, and the English of the major concessions they had been given in Maastricht. | | | The Germans could not deny the right to self-determination to other peoples who were subjugated by communism. |
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| | Germanized Zamojszczyzna meant the "Cleansing of alien tribal elements not having any mixture of German blood" had to be carried out and people expelled (Poles to Siberia, Jews to Madagascar and for the Czechs the destination was the coast of the Arctic Sea). | | | Germans did not care about the condition of the elderly of Drohicznay - they took them and sent them to a prison camp at Zamosc. | | | Germans acted according to one scheme: at night or in the early morning groups of army, police or SS surrounded villages and threatened people they would be executed unless they left their homes. |
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| | The Germanic tribes he describes are believed to have come from Scandinavia to Germany about 100 B.C., perhaps induced to migrate by overpopulation. | | | Charlemagne, founder of an empire that was Roman, Christian, and Germanic, was crowned emperor in Rome by the pope in 800. | | | The Germanic tribes living to the west of the Rhine River and south of the Main River were soon subdued by the Romans and incorporated into the Roman Empire. |
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| | German language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Standard German is rarely spoken, for instance when speaking with people who do not understand the Swiss German dialects at all, and it is expected to be used in school. | | | The High German dialects spoken by Ashkenazi Jews (mostly in the former Soviet Union) have several unique features, and are usually considered as a separate language, Yiddish. | | | German is spoken primarily in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, in two-thirds of Switzerland, in two-thirds of the South Tyrol province of Italy (in German, Südtirol), in the small East Cantons of Belgium, and in some border villages of the South Jutland County (Nordschleswig) of Denmark. |
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| | Bromberg: ethnic-German victims of Polish hatred |
| | The bodies of 10 ethnic Germans, beaten to death and mutilated. | | | ethnic Germans outside Warsaw, shot and beaten to death en masse. | | | One of the murdered ethnic German farmers from the towns Langenau and Otteraue near Bromberg. |
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: GERMANS |
| | Germans created new ethnic islands as late as the 1920s, but they were peopled from other areas in Texas, particularly the German Belt. | | | Intermarriage has blurred ethnic lines, but the 1990 United States census revealed that 1,175,888 Texans claimed pure and 1,775,838 partial German ancestry, for a total of 2,951,726, or 17½ percent of the total population. | | | The German settlers who immigrated to Texas because of Friedrich Ernst, the Adelsverein, and Castro generally were solid middle-class peasants. |
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| | Up to 1591 their aim was to bring about a union of all the German Protestant princes, including the Lutheran, for the purpose of enforcing the claims of Protestantism in south-western Germany. | | | The German bishops also yielded more and more to the authority of Rome; the Ottonian theory of government was already undermined. | | | In 1394 the nobles with Jost, Margrave of Moravia, as their leader, took the king prisoner; he was soon set free at the instance of the German princes, but his release did not do away with the rule of the nobility in Bohemia. |
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| | expulsions (...) brings us inexorably close to the suspicion that we have to deal with an attempt to revise the historical assessment of German aggression in comparison with others". | | | At present the German Minister of the Interior is trying to create unity over some contested details which have previously obstructed the building of the Centre. | | | In contrast Kvasnievski called attention to the previously uncontested legality of the Potsdam Treaty and related agreements, on which the resettlement of Germans were based. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe WWII expulsions spectre lives on |
| | German nationalists had historically used the existence of German minorities in other countries to make territorial claims; Adolf Hitler used them to bolster his case for aggressive expansion. | | | But short of the German government constructing a legal settlement under which Germany would itself meet the compensation claims of the group, they cannot be stopped from pursuing their demands. | | | A fringe German group, the Prussian Trust, has begun a series of lawsuits against Poland to recover property seized after the war - a move which has prompted near national hysteria as Warsaw remembers the 200,000 Poles slaughtered by the Nazis in the 1944 uprising. |
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| | Holy Roman Empire. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Also untenable was the dual position of the emperors as rulers of Germany and of Italy; geography as well as cultural and political conditions separated the two countries. | | | The election (1273) of Rudolf I as the first Hapsburg German king restored some order, but after his death rival claimants renewed the strife. | | | After 1438 the imperial office was held, with one exception, by the house of Hapsburg. |
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