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| | Germany Info: Government & Politics |
 | | “Through the horrific events of last year, Germans were once again reminded of the generosity and support America has shown to our people, and they have shown their sympathy and solidarity,” Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger said recently. | | | “Germans have not forgotten that Germany& unification would not have been possible without America’s support. | | | The concert is dedicated to those who helped out during the disastrous floods that swept through Germany in August. |
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http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/politics/new/pol_Oct_03_2002.html
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| | washingtonpost.com: In Berlin Wall's Dust, Germany Flounders |
| | It was against this backdrop of insecurity that the governing party proposed last week to de-emphasize German Unity Day, a holiday celebrated on Oct. 3. | | | Political parties led by former communists and neo-Nazi sympathizers are seeing a modest resurgence, buoyed by deep dissatisfaction over not just a weak economy but public perceptions of national aimlessness. | | | "I wonder about the soul of a nation whose government plans such a thing, 15 years after our hard-fought unity," Lothar de Maiziere, the last East German prime minister, lamented in an interview with German television. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35239-2004Nov8?language=printer
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| | GERMANS IN AMERICA / GERMANS IN MISSOURI |
| | Course outline w/links: German Immigrant Culture in America and The DAAD Syllabi Database. | | | German was nearly adopted as the official language of the USA: fact or fiction? | | | A German-American Chronology and chronology of Germans in America - Library of Congress. |
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http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/germusa.htm
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| | Berlin Ditches Plans to Move Unity Day Current Affairs Deutsche Welle 05.11.2004 |
| | Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has abandoned plans to abolish German Unity Day on the grounds the proposal lacked political support. | | | Speaking in Brussels Friday, the chancellor regretfully withdrew the plan, citing lack of political support. | | | The leaders of key opposition parties CDU and CSU, Angela Merkel and Edmund Stoiber, accused the government of "forgetting history." |
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| | As the German people once again bring a new government into office, with the kind of free and fair election that other peoples need to see, the United States looks forward to a reinvigorated, even closer partnership. | | | Photos of visits to Berlin by U.S. presidents, and more information about the German Unity Day celebrations are available at the National Archives Web site. | | | Congratulations again to the German people on fifteen remarkable years of German Unity. |
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http://www.useu.be/Article.asp?ID=557A797D-6295-4657-B0E9-57EDE8D56F7B
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| | Germany - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | Before World War II, about two-thirds of the German population was Protestant and one-third was Roman Catholic. | | | Bundesregierung Deutschland - Official site of the German Federal Government | | | In 1949 two German states were founded: the Federal Republic of Germany with originally twelve states and the German Democratic Republic with five states. |
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http://www.politicalinformation.net/encyclopedia/Germany.htm
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| | Day of German Unity |
| | Large-scale defection of East Germans through West Berlin -- 3 million all told -- could only be stopped by sealing this escape hatch with the erection of the "Berliner Mauer" (13 August 1961). | | | Juni" which commemorated the 1953 uprising against the repressive communist rule in East Germany. | | | This Day of German Unity was preceded on the German national calendar by the "17. |
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http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/dayunity.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - Far-right activists march on German's day of unity |
| | At Mainz's 1,000-year-old cathedral, Lutheran bishop Manfred Kock condemned the Sept. 11 attacks, which investigators believe were carried out by Islamic extremists who lived for a time in Germany. | | | Parliament President Wolfgang Thierse called on former East Germans to seize the opportunity to help other formerly communist countries to the east join the European Union. | | | Far-right activists march on German's day of unity |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2001/10/03/german-unity.htm
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| | Germany |
| | General secretaries of the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party (SED) | | | 4 Feb 1990); DFP = Deutsche Forumpartei (German Forum Party, 11 Aug 1990 merged into FDP); SDP = Sozialdemokratische Partei in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (Social Democratic Party in the German Democratic Republic, est. | | | LDPD = Liberaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Liberal Democratic Party of Germany, from 9 Feb 1990 LDP = Liberaldemokratische Partei, from 27 Mar 1990 BFD, which 11 Aug 1990 merges with FDP); CDU = Christlich-Demokratische Union (Christian Democratic Union); |
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| | fuckfrance.com - More schroeder reform attempts. FAIL. (898203) - Read article: |
| | Markus Soeder, general secretary of the CDU's Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, said the plan had shown "just what little feeling this government has for Germany and its national symbols". | | | Others speaking up for the public holiday included the German Trade Union Federation, which said: "Poor Germany, to think that we cannot even afford a public holiday recalling one of the most important events of our history." | | | Although Koehler, a former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was imposed on Schroeder by centre-right parties, the two men have not tangled in public in the past. |
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http://www.fuckfrance.com/read.html?postid=898203
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| | Germans Celebrate Reunification Day |
| | Briefing to journalists at the premises of the embassy in connection with German Days in October, including Day of German Unity, Dr. Doctor Dietrich Pohl, Counselor at the German Embassy to Ethiopia said that the Ethio-German bilateral relation in various sector is developing from time to time in diplomatic, cultural, trade, and tourism areas. | | | The German Goethe Institute in Addis Ababa is performing different cultural activities and promoting the two countries cultural relationship, according to the press release from the embassy. | | | The German community in Ethiopia celebrated day of German Unity, a day that marks the east and west German peaceful unification, on Wednesday October 3, 2001 and with various events taking place throughout the month. |
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http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2001/10/05-10-01/Germans.htm
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| | Guardian Protests on German unity day |
| | But in Berlin about 900 neo-Nazis did not forgo the opportunity for a march which led to scuffles between the police and hardline leftwing protesters shouting "Nazis out!" | | | One of the skinhead leaders, Steffen Hupka of the far-right National Democratic party, call for "the death of the United States as a world power". | | | Germans marked 11 years of reunification with street parties yesterday, their celebrations scaled down in respect for the victims of the September 11 attacks. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4270081-103681,00.html
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| | GACCoM - Events - Past Events |
| | © German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest | | | • State Secretary Dr. Ditmar Staffelt, Parliamentary State Secretary and Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Affairs, Ministry of Economics and Labor, Germany |
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| | German Unity Day Celebrated |
| | Re-unification has had a significant impact on Germany's position in Europe and the world. | | | The release said that contrary to some fears, German unification did not destabilize the continent nor did it negatively affect the multilateral framework for German and European foreign policy. | | | According to a press release from the German Embassy here, which described the day as " an auspicious event for Germany and for Europe at large," the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, initiated the end of an era for Germany, Europe and the whole world. |
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http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2000/10/27-10-00/Germ.htm
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| | Chancellor Schroeder to resign: German daily - Irna |
| | Pak minister denies banning turban, cap for photographs | | | Schroeder is involved in a dispute with his conservative challenger Angela Merkel over who is to become the next chancellor, after his Social Democratic Party (SPD) narrowly lost the elections to the CDU. | | | German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder plans to resign this Monday to pave the way for a grand coalition government headed by Angela Merkel whose Christian Democratic alliance (CDU/CSU) won the most seats in the recent general elections, the Berlin-based B.Z. newspaper reported Thursday. |
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| | German Week |
| | Look for more information on the new GAS web site: | | | This is also the week of German-American Day (October 6) and the Day of German Unity (October 3), Germany& national holiday. | | | Picnic (with German Bratwurst for a dollar) organized by the UNO chapter of the German Honors Society Delta Phi Alpha. |
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http://members.cox.net/aatgnebraska/germanwk.htm
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| | German-American Day 2000 |
| | This web page has been created and is maintained by Mohamed Esa | | | Carlonine Rodgers, who designed the T-shirt for last year's German-American Day and also helped design this year's T-shirt | | | Mohamed Esa, Organizer of German-American Day at the opening session |
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| | Germany Info: 15 Years of German Unity |
| | Kurt Beck, Minister President of the State of Rheinland-Pfalz, the German state with the most US troops, was the other guest of honor. | | | The national holiday "reminds us how the people in the GDR fought the Communist dictatorship using peaceful means to win their freedom. | | | This year, Germany is celebrating the 15th anniversary of German Unification. |
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| | With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). | | | This access time will be reduced in case of violation of security rules by some students. | | | The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. |
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| | Soldiers' Angels Germany |
| | Returning the next day, we reported we had found one of their buddies in the ICU but were unable to locate the fourth Soldier. | | | On this particular day one of the locals had his little girl with him. | | | On one of those days in Iraq where I wasn't sure if I'd see my daughter again, I was working at a checkpoint near a small camp in the desert. |
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| | Pravda.RU:Vladimir Putin Congratulates German Leadership On Day Of German Unity |
| | Vladimir Putin Congratulates German Leadership On Day Of German Unity | | | Pravda.RU:Vladimir Putin Congratulates German Leadership On Day Of German Unity | | | President Putin of Russia has sent a message of congratulation to Federal President of Germany Johannes Rau and Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on the occasion of the Federal Republic's national holiday, Day of German Unity. |
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| | Picture Gallery - Day of German Unity |
| | Federal President Dr Horst Köhler in his address on the Day of German Unity | | | "Unity is the rock on which we stand" | | | Ambassador's address on the Day of German Unity |
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| | ISLAMABAD October 02 : President General Pervez Musharraf has felicitated President Horst Koehler of Germany on the German Unity Day falling on October 03 and hoped the relations between the two countries would further strengthen. | | | Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has greeted the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Gerhard Schroeder on Germany's National Day. | | | The Prime Minister, conveying his sincerest felicitations on the Unity Day said, "my government greatly values the traditional and warm relations that so happily exist between our two countries and people." |
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| | Millennium Film Journal: A Kaiser Reconstructed |
| | We are made aware that the reconstructed Kaiser is to be restored to his pedestal on September 2, 1993, 123 years to the day since the French humiliation at Sedan on Sept. 2 1870. | | | Then, there is the generous donor of the restored monument, shown alongside the reconstructed Kaiser--the generous benefactor who did not, in fact, live to see his triumph in place. | | | The film is about the construction of the monument and its destruction near the end of World War II in which only the head survived the American soldiers' cannon blast; and it is about the monument's reconstruction. |
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| | Weekly Missive - Scott and Shelly Montgomery |
| | Today's a big day on the German calendar and in recent German history: It's "Tag der Deutschen Einheit" (German Unity Day). | | | Anything we said six months ago is inadmissible in an argument. | | | Today's a big day for me at Lighthouse Baptist, the local church I'm attending down here in Pasadena, Maryland. |
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| | Berlin to celebrate German Unity Day without beer, sausages |
| | Revellers seeking a proper party will have to go all the way to Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt 120 kilometers (80 miles) west of Berlin, which this year is the official host to Unity Day celebrations. | | | Compact Team had been hired to dish out sausages, beer and caipirinha, a Brazilian cocktail, to tens of thousands of revellers gathering around the gate to celebrate the anniversary of German reunification on October 3. | | | Berliners will have to go without munching on sausages and guzzling beer when they celebrate the anniversary of German reunification next month, as the company in charge of the festivities cancelled at the last moment, it was reported. |
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| | German Unity Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Thus, October 3, 1990, the day of formal reunion was chosen instead. | | | The revolt was crushed with Soviet aid; the exact number of fatalities is unknown, but estimated at somewhat above 100. | | | Before reunification, in Western Germany the "Day of German Unity" was June 17; this was a somewhat propagandistic interpretation of a failed 1953 revolt staged by East German workers mainly against a raise in work quotas. |
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| | German Unity Day Highlights Divisions |
| | BONN -- German leaders observed the fifth birthday of their reunited nation Tuesday by lamenting difficult new divisions, and protesters in Duesseldorf rioted before the start of the main Unity Day celebration. | | | Leftist militants torched a car, hurled stones at police and smashed the windows of a Duesseldorf bank and department store before dawn in protest against unification. | | | You might also be interested in our free E-mail News Summary, which delivers our entire edition every day straight to your inbox. |
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| | German Holiday's |
| | Second Thursday after Pentecost - Corpus Christi Day |
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