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German American Bund The German American Bund or German American Federation was a fraternal American organization established in the 1930s as a merger of two older organizations, the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) and the Free Society of Teutonia, both of which were small groups with only a few hundred members each. NSDAP member Heinz Sponknobel eventually consolidated the two groups into Friends of New Germany.
German American National Political Action Committee The German-American National Political Action Committee (GANPAC), founded by Hans Schmidt in 1982, is an California-based organization which uses Holocaust denial to contribute to the rehabilitation of National Socialism. GANPAC is also devoted to fighting perceived anti-German sentiment in the media.
German American Partnership Program The German American Partnership Program (GAPP), is a high school exchange program between schools in the United States and Germany, sponsored by the Goethe-Institut. The program was started in 1977Over 200,000 students have participated in the program[http://www.
German Angus Cattle The German Angus breed is a cattle breed that was bred in the 1950s in Germany by crossing Aberdeen Angus with different native German cattle breeds like German Black Pied Cattle, Gelbvieh, and Fleckvieh. The new breed is bigger and heavier than the original breed and has higher weight gains.
German Apsara Conservation Project The German Apsara Conservation Project (GACP) is a non-profit organisation based at the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne dedicated to preserving the devatas (or apsaras) and other bas-reliefs of Angkor Wat. It is funded primarily by the German Foreign Office.
German Archaeological Institute The German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, DAI) is one of the world's leading archaeological research institutions, and a "scientific corporation" under the auspices of the German Foreign Office. It was founded in 1829 in Rome as the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica, and since 1832 it has had its headquarters in Berlin, with offices in many other cities, currently including Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, Athen, Cairo, Damascus, Bagdad, Tehran and Sanaa.
German Army The German Army (German: Heer ) is the land component of the Bundeswehr ("Federal Defence Forces") of the Federal Republic of Germany. Traditionally, the German military forces have been composed of the Army, the Navy, and after the First World War, the Air Force.
German Army Aviators Corps The German Army Aviators Corps (Heeresfliegertruppe) is a special unit within the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr). The German Army Aviators Corps is part of the German Army, containing all its helicopter units.
German Austria The Republic of German Austria (referred to, at the time, as the "German-Eastern Land"; ) was the initial rump state successor to the Austro-Hungarian Empire following World War I for areas with a predominantly ethnic German population. It claimed an area of 118,311 km² with 10.
German Autumn The German Autumn (German: Deutscher Herbst) was a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of the Lufthansa airplane Landshut, by the Red Army Faction (RAF) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) respectively, in late 1977.
German battlecruiser Gneisenau Gneisenau was a famous World War II 31,100 ton Gneisenau class battlecruiserThe battlecruiser classification came from the Royal Navy, the German Kriegsmarine classification was Schlachtschiff (battleship). of the German Kriegsmarine.
German battlecruiser Scharnhorst Scharnhorst was a famous World War II 31,500 tonne Gneisenau class battlecruiserThe battlecruiser classification came from the Royal Navy, the German Kriegsmarine classification was battleship. of the German Kriegsmarine, named after the Prussian general and army reformer Gerhard von Scharnhorst and to commemorate the World War I armoured cruiser SMS Scharnhorst that was sunk in the Battle at the Falkland Islands in December 1914.
German battleship Bismarck The German battleship Bismarck is one of the most famous warships of the Second World War. Named after the 19th century German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck's fame came from the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1941, in which the battlecruiser HMS Hood, flagship and pride of the British Royal Navy, was sunk, from Churchill's subsequent order to "Sink the Bismarck" and from the relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy that ended with her loss only three days later.
German battleship Deutschland (1875) The Deutschland was Kaiser class armoured frigates designed by Sir Edward Reed. She was fitted with a sailing rig which was removed during refitting at the Imperial Dockyard, Wilhelmshaven, from 1894 to 1897.
German battleship Schlesien SMS Schlesien was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Deutschland class, commissioned in 1908 into the German Imperial Navy. Her sisters were SMS Deutschland, SMS Hannover, SMS Pommern and SMS Schleswig-Holstein.
German Bestelmeyer German Bestelmeyer (1874-1942) was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. During the Third Reich mere opposition to Bauhaus architecture was enough to gain official approval for almost any architect, as with German Bestelmeyer.
German Bight German Bight (German: Deutsche Bucht, Danish: Tyske Bugt) is the south-eastern bight of the North Sea bounded by the Netherlands and Germany to the south, and Denmark and Germany to the east (the Jutland peninsula). To the north and west it's limited by the Dogger Bank.
German Blood Certificate A German Blood Certificate (Deutschblütigkeitserklärung) was a document provided to Mischlinge (those with partial Jewish heritage) during the Second World War that allowed exemption from Germany's racial laws. The certificate was conditional, and had a clause stating that it would be reconsidered after the cessation of hostilities.
German Bowl The German Bowl, like the NFL Super Bowl, is the final match of the season for the German Football League (GFL). The GFL is the bundesliga responsible for American football in Germany, and the German Bowl participants are determined through the playoffs.
German Brass German Brass is a brass ensemble, founded 1974 as Brass Quintet by Enrique Crespo, named "Deutsches Blechbläserquintett – Solobläser deutscher Spitzenorchester" ( German Brass Quintet - Soloists of German top level orchestras )
German car number plates German car number plates (Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered. Whenever a person changes their main place of residence in Germany, or buys a new car, they are required to buy new number plates.
German colonial empire The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late 19th century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire. There had also been some short lived attempts at colonisation before this, but the empire itself began in 1883 and ended with the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I in 1919.
German cruiser Blücher The German Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser, Blücher, was the Kriegsmarine's newest ship at the outbreak of World War II. She was sunk by Norwegian shore defences at the Battle of Drøbak sound on April 9 1940, less than three years after her launch, on the first day of the invasion of Norway (Operation Weserübung).
German cruiser Karlsruhe Karlsruhe was a light cruiser of the German K class in World War II, the other ships in class being Königsberg and Köln. The K class were the first cruisers of the German navy to employ electric welding techniques and a newly designed triple 5.
German cruiser Seydlitz Seydlitz was a heavy cruiser of the German navy, fourth in the Hipper class, but was never completed. The keel was laid on 29 December 1936 at DeSchiMAG shipyards in Bremen, and the ship was launched on 19 January 1939.
German Colony The term German Colony designates neighborhoods of several Israeli cities that were originally built by the Templers, a German religious sect, in the second half of the 19th century. They typically retain distinctive architecture.
German Colored Tail Owl The German colored tail owl () is a breed of pigeon developed in the mid-18th century in Königsberg, East Prussia, from which it gets its German name. This breed of pigeon is well-known in Russia because Königsberg is now a part of Russia, and is known as Kaliningrad.
German Commission for UNESCO UNESCO was founded in 1946 as the United Nations Specialized Organization for Education, Science and Culture. Within its fields of competence, UNESCO will "contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and culture".
German Communist Party The German Communist Party (German: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei - DKP) was formed in West Germany in 1968, in order to fill the place of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which was banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956. It was to a great extent born out of the Extraparliamentary Opposition.
German Confederation The German Confederation (German: Deutscher Bund) was the association of Central European states created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to organize the surviving states of the Holy Roman Empire, which had been abolished in 1806.
German Confederation of Trade Unions The German Confederation of Trade Unions (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, DGB) is an umbrella organisation (sometimes known as a national trade union center) for eight German trade unions, in total representing more than 7 million people (31 December 2004). It was founded in Munich, October 12, 1949.
German Conservative Party The German Conservative Party (Deutsche Konservative Partei or DKP) was a German political party of the Second Reich, founded in 1876. It was generally seen as representing the interests of the East Elbian junkers and the Evangelical Church, and had its political stronghold in the Prussian Diet, where the three-class voting system gave rural elites disproportionate power.
German Cross The German Cross (German: Deutsches Kreuz) was instituted by Adolf Hitler in 1942 as an award ranking higher than the Iron Cross First Class but below the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. It was issued in two divisions: gold and silver (the color of the laurel wreath around the swastika), the former being an award for bravery, the latter being for distinguished service and was considered a continuation of the War Merit Cross with swords.
German Crusade, 1096 The German Crusade of 1096 is that part of the First Crusade in which peasant crusaders, mostly from Germany, attacked Jewish communities. Although anti-Semitism had existed in Europe for centuries, this was the first organized mass pogrom.
German declaration of war against the Netherlands (May 10 1940) At 6:00 in the morning (Amsterdam time) on 10 May 1940 during the Battle of the Netherlands the German envoy Count Zech von Burkensroda gave Dutch minister of foreign affairs Van Kleffens the following German declaration of war. At least, it was later interpreted as such by the Dutch; from the German side it was at the time seen as a mere warning, hopefully intimidating the Dutch enough to accept German military protection.
German declension German declension is the declensional system of the German language. In keeping with a fairly conservative, fusional language, German marks nouns, pronouns, articles, and adjectives to distinguish case, number, and gender.
German Democratic Party The German Democratic Party, or Deutsche Demokratische Partei (DDP), was founded by leaders of the former Progressive People's Party (Fortschrittliche Volkspartei) and the left wing of the National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei) in the early days of the Weimar Republic. Their leaders included Walther Rathenau, Eugen Schiffer, Otto Preuss, Otto Gessler, and Erich Koch-Weser.
German Democratic Republic The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, or DDR; known in English as East Germany) was a communist state which existed from 1949 to 1990. The German Democratic Republic was established in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany on October 7, 1949, following the creation in May 1949 of the Federal Republic of Germany ("West Germany") in the zones occupied by the United States, Britain and France.
German Democratic Republic border system The GDR border system (also called the inner German border; in German, Innerdeusche Grenze or Deutsch-Deutsche Grenze) was an extensive system of fortifications that ran the entire 1381 km (858 mile) length of the border between East Germany (the German Democratic Republic, or GDR) and West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany, or FRG).
German Design Award The German Design Award (German: Deutscher Designpreis) is one of the council for styling (German: Rat fĂĽr Formgebung) and the Federal Ministry of economy and technology donated honouring for good design. The German design price has some specific features: thus enterprises can notapply for this directly, but are nominated by the Federal Ministry of economy and technology for this.
German Development Institute The German Development Institute (Deutsches Institut fĂĽr Entwicklungspolitik, or DIE) sees itself as the think tank for German development policy. It builds bridges between theory and practice and works within international research networks.
German Doctors for Developing Countries In 1980 the committee Ă„rzte fĂĽr die Dritte Welt (Doctors for Developing Countries) was established by Jesuit Father Bernhard Ehlen. The committee was founded in Frankfurt, Germany and still has its location there.
German election, 1912 The 13th German election of 1912 is most notable for the major breakthrough of the leftist Social Democratic Party (SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands), which for the first time became the largest party in the German Reichstag. It more than doubled its seat total from the 1907 election.
German election, 1928 The 5th German federal election of May 20, 1928, under the Weimar Republic. As with the previous election in 1924, the SDP gained a plurality of the seats but failed to gain a majority, however, their number did increase.
German election, 1930 The 6th German federal election of 14 September 1930, under the Weimar Republic. The number of seats increased from the last election in 1928 (491) to 577 seats, however, the SDP, who remained the largest party saw their share decrease.
German election, 1933 The 9th and last true German federal election of the Weimar Republic was held on March 5 1933, and was significant in that it was the last election to be held in Germany before World War II. Due to the success of the Nazi Party in the poll, its leader, and Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler was able to pass the Enabling Act, which effectively gave him the power of a dictator.
German euro coins German euro coins have three separate designs for the three series of coins. The 1, 2 and 5 cent coins were designed by Rolf Lederbogen, the design for the 10, 20 and 50 cent coins is by the hand of Reinhard Heinsdorff and the 1 and 2 euro coins were done by Heinz Hoyer and Sneschana Russewa-Hoyer.
German East Africa German East Africa (German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was Germany's colony in East Africa, including what is now Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanganyika, the mainland part of present Tanzania. It came into existence during the 1880s and ended during World War I, when the area was taken over by the British and Belgians.
German East Africa Company The German East Africa Company (German: Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft) was an organisation founded by Karl Peters (with imperial backing from Otto von Bismarck) on April 2, 1885, to govern German East Africa (modern Tanzania). The Company established the colony's first capital city at Bagamoyo, but soon moved the capital to Dar es Salaam.
German Emergency Acts The German Emergency Acts were passed on 30 May 1968 at the time of the First Grand Coalition between the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. The Emergency Acts faced opposition from outside the German parliament.
German Emigration Center The German Emigration Center (German: Deutsches Auswandererhaus) is a museum located in Bremerhaven, Germany dedicated to the history of German emigration, especially to the United States. Visitors can experience the process of a historical emigration.
German Empire The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich colloquially Deutsches Kaiserreich) is the name conventionally given in English, to the German state from the time of the proclamation of Wilhelm I of Prussia as German Emperor (January 18, 1871) to the abdication of Wilhelm II (November 9, 1918). The official name of the state in German was Deutsches Reich, but this continued in official use until 1943 and hence does not exclusively refer to the period of imperial rule.
German federal election, 1949 The 1st German federal election, 1949, was conducted on August 14 1949, to elect members to the Bundestag (lower house) of West Germany. This was the first free election conducted in Germany after the Nazi period.
German federal election, 2005 German federal elections took place on September 18, 2005 to elect the members of the 16th German Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany. They became necessary after a motion of confidence in Chancellor Gerhard Schröder failed on July 1.
German folklore German folklore shares many characteristics with Scandinavian folklore and English folklore due to their origins in a common Germanic mythology. It reflects a similar mix of influences: a pre-Christian pantheon and other beings equivalent to those of Norse mythology; magical characters (sometimes recognisably pre-Christian) associated with Christian festivals, and various regional 'character' stories.
German football champions The coronation of the first Champions in imperial Germany in 1903 established the tradition of a great footballing nation. Since 1903, 93 championships have been decided: 49 clubs share the honour of having been amongst the nations top two teams.
German Faith Movement The German Faith Movement (Deutsche Glaubensbewegung) was closely associated with Jakob Wilhelm Hauer during the Third Reich (1933-45) and sought to move Germany away from Christianity towards a religion based on "immediate experience" of God. Hauer was a professor at Tuebingen.
German Federal Coast Guard The coast guard of Germany (German: Koordinierungsverbund KĂĽstenwache) is an association of a number of federal agencies. It is not a single entity, like the coast guards of other countries, for instance the United States Coast Guard.
German Federal Constitutional Court abortion decision The German Supreme Court addressed the issue of abortion two years after Roe v. Wade in a decision known as BVerfGE 39,1, holding that the unborn have a right to life guaranteed by the constitution, that abortion is "an act of killing", and that the fetus deserves legal protection throughout its development.
German Federal Republic "German Federal Republic" (Deutsche Bundesrepublik, DBR) was one of the derogatory terms used by the communist German Democratic Republic to refer to the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1950s until 1968, when they started using the propaganda term "BRD".
German Fest German Fest is an ethnic festival in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Henry Maier Festival Park, on the Lake Michigan lakefront. It was first held in 1981 and billed as the largest German celebration in North America.
German Football Association The German Football Association (DFB) (German: Deutscher FuĂźball-Bund) is the governing body of football in Germany. It organises the German football leagues, including the national league, the Bundesliga and the men's and women's national teams.
German Footballer of the Year The title Footballer of the Year (FuĂźballer des Jahres) has been awarded in Germany since 1960. The award is determined by a poll of German football journalists from the Association of German Sports Journalists (Verband der Deutschen Sportjournalisten) and the publication Kicker.
German Fortress Division SwinemĂĽnde Fortress Division SwinemĂĽnde was an ad-hoc formation under the command of Baron Hermmann Von Pfel, and organized by Seekommandant Pommern (Naval Command Pomerania) in the port of SwinemĂĽnde. The division was created in 1945 primarily from German Navy personnel, although some Luftwaffe personnel were used as well.
German Fountain The German Fountain (in Turkish Alman Çeşmesi) is a gazebo styled fountain in the northern end of old hippodrome (Sultanahmet Square), Istanbul, Turkey and across from the Mausoleum of Sultan Ahmed I. It was constructed to commemorate the second anniversary of German Emperor Wilhelm II's visit to Istanbul in 1898.
German Freethinkers League The German Freethinkers League ('Deutsche Freidenkerbund') was an organisation founded in 1881 by the philosopher, physiologist and physician Ludwig BĂĽchner. Its aim was to provide a public meeting-ground and forum for materialist and atheist thinkers in Germany.
German grip German grip is a technique used to hold drum sticks and mallets to play percussion instruments. In this form of matched grip, the palms of the hands are parallel to the drumhead or other playing surface, and the stick is moved primarily with the wrist.
German Garden The term German Garden stands for a special type of architekture of gardens, which was influenced by the English garden-concept. Typical for this kind of parkdesign is the clear structure and the domestic animals, which are always there.
German Garrido German Garrido (born 15 June 1948) is a member of one of Spain's most successful golfing families. His brother Antonio and nephew Ignacio were only the second father-son combination to have played in the Ryder Cup.
German General Social Survey The German General Social Survey (GGSS/ALLBUS - Die Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften) is a national data generation program in Germany, which is similar to the American General Social Survey (GSS). Its mission is to collect and disseminate high quality statistical surveys on attitudes, behavior, and social structure in Germany.
German General Staff The German General Staff, (GroĂźer Generalstab, literally, Great General Staff) was an institution whose rise and development gave the German military a decided advantage over its adversaries. The Staff amounted to its best "weapon" for nearly two centuries.
German Geophysical Society The German Geophysical Society (German: Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft, DGG) is a society for geophysics in Germany; it was founded in 1922 in Leipzig, Germany on the initiative of the great seismologist Emil Wiechert, as Deutsche Seismologische Gesellschaft (German Seismological Society) but changed its name into the current one in 1924. Its main activities include the organization of an annual scientific conference of geophysicists mostly of German-speaking countries (or close personal or professional ties to them) and the publication of a major scientific journal, the Geophysical Journal International (GJI) in cooperation with the Royal Astronomical Society.
German Goldenshteyn German Goldenshteyn, or Goldenshtayn (2 September 1934 – June 10 2006) was born in the shtetl of Otaci, then in Romania, now in Moldova. He was a clarinetist and musicologist who brought his native region's klezmer tradition to the USA.
German Grey Rabbits German Grey Rabbits are a breed of rabbits noted for their size, much like the Flemish Giant. It gained international attention when a breeder sold the rabbits for food puposes to North Korea to aid the famine situation[http://www.
German humour German humour is for linguistic reasons quite different from British humour. German sentence construction, and its fewer double meanings (because of the way it creates compound words) mean that German humour has to rely more on humorous ideas than on plays on words.
German Heavy Panzer Detachment German Heavy Panzer Detachments/Battalions (), were battalion-sized World War II tank units, equipped with Tiger I and Tiger II heavy tanks. Originally intended to fight on the offensive during breakthrough operations, the German late-war realities showed them better used and much more capable of fighting in a defensive posture by providing heavy fire support and counterattacking enemy armored breakthroughs.
German champions (basketball) The team holding the record for title championships is TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, who have won 14 championships. Since 1997, however, Alba Berlin has dominated the league, winning their 7th title in 2003 as a result.
German Chamomile German Chamomile (Matricaria recutita), also spelt Camomile, is an annual plant of the sunflower family Asteraceae. Synonyms are: Chamomilla chamomilla, Chamomilla recutita (accepted name according to the Flora Europaea), Matricaria chamomilla, and Matricaria suaveolens.
German Christians The German Christian (Deutsche Christen) group was formed in 1932 and led by Ludwig MĂĽller. The group were supportive of the Nazi ideas about race and adopted Martin Luther's anti-Semitism, as well as his respect for state authority.
German Christmas traditions German Christmas traditions include the customs, folklore, history, family practices, and religious and secular symbols associated with this holiday. The Christmas season in Germany starts at the beginning of Advent, which is four Sundays before Christmas Day.
German idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with romanticism and the revolutionary politics of the Enlightenment.
German immigration to Puerto Rico German businessmen first immigrated to Puerto Rico during the early part of the 19th century. During the early 19th century, the Spanish Crown issued the Royal Decree of Graces (Real CĂ©dula de Gracias) which allowed the immigration of people of non-Hispanic origin to immigrate to the island.
German in the United States Before World War I, more than 6% of American schoolchildren received their primary education only in German. Furthermore, as of the 2000 census, more than 45 million Americans claim they have German ancestors, the largest reported white ethnic group.
German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame The German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, was founded in 1988 and is located in Augsburg, Germany. The Hall serves to honor those individuals that have contributed to the sport of hockey in the Germany and has displays and memorabilia depicting the significant contributions of players, coaches, referees and other important figures in the sport.
German Institute for Economic Research The German Institute for Economic Research, German Deutsches Institut fĂĽr Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) is one of the leading research institutes in Germany. It is an independent, non-profit academic institution which is involved in basic research and policy advice.
German Institute of Science and Technology (Singapore) The German Institute of Science and Technology (abbreviated GIST) is a research and education institute setup in Singapore as a result of a collaboration between the Technical University of Munich, the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.
German Instrument of Surrender, 1945 The German Instrument of Surrender, 1945 refers to the legal instrument of World War II in which the High Command of the German Armed Forces surrendered simultaneously to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force and to the Soviet High command.
German K class cruiser The K class was a class of light cruisers of the German Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine, consisting of three ships named after German cities starting with the letter "K": Königsberg, Karlsruhe, Köln. It's also referred to as Königsberg class according to the convention of naming classes after the first completed vessel.
German Kim German Nikolaevich Kim (Russian: Герман Николаевич Ким) is Head of the Department of Korean Studies at Al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan and one of the leading internationally-recognised scholars of the Koryo-saram.
German language German (Deutsch, ) is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 95 to 110 million native speakers and another 20 million non-native speakers.
German Labour Front The German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF) was the National Socialist national unity workers' organisation for free and diverse trade unions, which were outlawed in 1933 after Hitler's rise to power. Its leader was Robert Ley, who stated its aim as 'to create a true social and productive community' (Smelster, 1988).
German Leather Museum The German Leather Museum (Deutsches Ledermuseum), located in Offenbach, Hesse, close to Frankfurt, Germany, is one of the largest museums of the world with a wide variety of collection of leather items, including some exhibits, which are believed to more than 3,000 years old. The museum has three wings, namely, the German Shoe Museum, the Museum for Applied Art and the Ethnology Museum.
German modal particle German modal particles (in German: Modalpartikeln or Abtönungspartikeln) are a part of speech in the German language. These words have a dual function: reflecting the mood or attitude of the speaker or narrator, and highlighting the sentence focus.
German model The term German model is most often used in economics to describe post-World War II West Germany's means of using (according to University College London Professor Wendy Carlin) innovative industrial relations, vocational training, and closer relationships between the financial and industrial sectors to cultivate economic prosperity.
German motorcycle Grand Prix The German motorcycle Grand Prix is part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Championship. Due to the existence of two German states from 1949 to 1990, East German and West German Grands Prix were held during that period.
German mysticism German Mysticism (Sometimes called Dominican mysticism or Rhineland mysticism) is the name given to a christian mystical movement in the Late Middle Ages, that was especially prominent in Germany, and in the Dominican order.
German Marshall Fund The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a non-partisan American public policy and grantmaking institution dedicated to promoting greater cooperation and understanding between the United States and Europe.
German Mills Creek (Don) German Mills Creek is a tributary of the Don River. It originates in Richmond Hill (near Yonge Street and 16th Avenue), flows south through Markham and empties into the Don River East Branch just south of Steeles Avenue near Leslie Street.
German Museum of Technology (Berlin) Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin ("German Museum of Technology") was founded in 1982 and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts. The museum's main emphasis is on rail transport, but it also features exhibits of various sorts of industrial technology.
German naval ship Deutschland (A59) A59 Deutschland was a naval ship of the Bundesmarine, the West German navy. It was constructed and used as a trainings ship (school ship) in peace times and planned for multi role missions in times of war: troop ship, hospital ship, minelayer and more.
German American National Political Action Committee The German-American National Political Action Committee (GANPAC), founded by Hans Schmidt in 1982, is an California-based organization which uses Holocaust denial to contribute to the rehabilitation of National Socialism. GANPAC is also devoted to fighting perceived anti-German sentiment in the media.
German American Partnership Program The German American Partnership Program (GAPP), is a high school exchange program between schools in the United States and Germany, sponsored by the Goethe-Institut. The program was started in 1977Over 200,000 students have participated in the program[http://www.
German Angus Cattle The German Angus breed is a cattle breed that was bred in the 1950s in Germany by crossing Aberdeen Angus with different native German cattle breeds like German Black Pied Cattle, Gelbvieh, and Fleckvieh. The new breed is bigger and heavier than the original breed and has higher weight gains.
German Apsara Conservation Project The German Apsara Conservation Project (GACP) is a non-profit organisation based at the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne dedicated to preserving the devatas (or apsaras) and other bas-reliefs of Angkor Wat. It is funded primarily by the German Foreign Office.
German Archaeological Institute The German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, DAI) is one of the world's leading archaeological research institutions, and a "scientific corporation" under the auspices of the German Foreign Office. It was founded in 1829 in Rome as the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica, and since 1832 it has had its headquarters in Berlin, with offices in many other cities, currently including Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, Athen, Cairo, Damascus, Bagdad, Tehran and Sanaa.
German Army The German Army (German: Heer ) is the land component of the Bundeswehr ("Federal Defence Forces") of the Federal Republic of Germany. Traditionally, the German military forces have been composed of the Army, the Navy, and after the First World War, the Air Force.
German Army Aviators Corps The German Army Aviators Corps (Heeresfliegertruppe) is a special unit within the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr). The German Army Aviators Corps is part of the German Army, containing all its helicopter units.
German Austria The Republic of German Austria (referred to, at the time, as the "German-Eastern Land"; ) was the initial rump state successor to the Austro-Hungarian Empire following World War I for areas with a predominantly ethnic German population. It claimed an area of 118,311 km² with 10.
German Autumn The German Autumn (German: Deutscher Herbst) was a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of the Lufthansa airplane Landshut, by the Red Army Faction (RAF) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) respectively, in late 1977.
German battlecruiser Gneisenau Gneisenau was a famous World War II 31,100 ton Gneisenau class battlecruiserThe battlecruiser classification came from the Royal Navy, the German Kriegsmarine classification was Schlachtschiff (battleship). of the German Kriegsmarine.
German battlecruiser Scharnhorst Scharnhorst was a famous World War II 31,500 tonne Gneisenau class battlecruiserThe battlecruiser classification came from the Royal Navy, the German Kriegsmarine classification was battleship. of the German Kriegsmarine, named after the Prussian general and army reformer Gerhard von Scharnhorst and to commemorate the World War I armoured cruiser SMS Scharnhorst that was sunk in the Battle at the Falkland Islands in December 1914.
German battleship Bismarck The German battleship Bismarck is one of the most famous warships of the Second World War. Named after the 19th century German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck's fame came from the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1941, in which the battlecruiser HMS Hood, flagship and pride of the British Royal Navy, was sunk, from Churchill's subsequent order to "Sink the Bismarck" and from the relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy that ended with her loss only three days later.
German battleship Deutschland (1875) The Deutschland was Kaiser class armoured frigates designed by Sir Edward Reed. She was fitted with a sailing rig which was removed during refitting at the Imperial Dockyard, Wilhelmshaven, from 1894 to 1897.
German battleship Schlesien SMS Schlesien was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Deutschland class, commissioned in 1908 into the German Imperial Navy. Her sisters were SMS Deutschland, SMS Hannover, SMS Pommern and SMS Schleswig-Holstein.
German Bestelmeyer German Bestelmeyer (1874-1942) was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. During the Third Reich mere opposition to Bauhaus architecture was enough to gain official approval for almost any architect, as with German Bestelmeyer.
German Bight German Bight (German: Deutsche Bucht, Danish: Tyske Bugt) is the south-eastern bight of the North Sea bounded by the Netherlands and Germany to the south, and Denmark and Germany to the east (the Jutland peninsula). To the north and west it's limited by the Dogger Bank.
German Blood Certificate A German Blood Certificate (Deutschblütigkeitserklärung) was a document provided to Mischlinge (those with partial Jewish heritage) during the Second World War that allowed exemption from Germany's racial laws. The certificate was conditional, and had a clause stating that it would be reconsidered after the cessation of hostilities.
German Bowl The German Bowl, like the NFL Super Bowl, is the final match of the season for the German Football League (GFL). The GFL is the bundesliga responsible for American football in Germany, and the German Bowl participants are determined through the playoffs.
German Brass German Brass is a brass ensemble, founded 1974 as Brass Quintet by Enrique Crespo, named "Deutsches Blechbläserquintett – Solobläser deutscher Spitzenorchester" ( German Brass Quintet - Soloists of German top level orchestras )
German car number plates German car number plates (Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered. Whenever a person changes their main place of residence in Germany, or buys a new car, they are required to buy new number plates.
German colonial empire The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late 19th century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire. There had also been some short lived attempts at colonisation before this, but the empire itself began in 1883 and ended with the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I in 1919.
German cruiser Blücher The German Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser, Blücher, was the Kriegsmarine's newest ship at the outbreak of World War II. She was sunk by Norwegian shore defences at the Battle of Drøbak sound on April 9 1940, less than three years after her launch, on the first day of the invasion of Norway (Operation Weserübung).
German cruiser Karlsruhe Karlsruhe was a light cruiser of the German K class in World War II, the other ships in class being Königsberg and Köln. The K class were the first cruisers of the German navy to employ electric welding techniques and a newly designed triple 5.
German cruiser Seydlitz Seydlitz was a heavy cruiser of the German navy, fourth in the Hipper class, but was never completed. The keel was laid on 29 December 1936 at DeSchiMAG shipyards in Bremen, and the ship was launched on 19 January 1939.
German Colony The term German Colony designates neighborhoods of several Israeli cities that were originally built by the Templers, a German religious sect, in the second half of the 19th century. They typically retain distinctive architecture.
German Colored Tail Owl The German colored tail owl () is a breed of pigeon developed in the mid-18th century in Königsberg, East Prussia, from which it gets its German name. This breed of pigeon is well-known in Russia because Königsberg is now a part of Russia, and is known as Kaliningrad.
German Commission for UNESCO UNESCO was founded in 1946 as the United Nations Specialized Organization for Education, Science and Culture. Within its fields of competence, UNESCO will "contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and culture".
German Communist Party The German Communist Party (German: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei - DKP) was formed in West Germany in 1968, in order to fill the place of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which was banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956. It was to a great extent born out of the Extraparliamentary Opposition.
German Confederation The German Confederation (German: Deutscher Bund) was the association of Central European states created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to organize the surviving states of the Holy Roman Empire, which had been abolished in 1806.
German Confederation of Trade Unions The German Confederation of Trade Unions (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, DGB) is an umbrella organisation (sometimes known as a national trade union center) for eight German trade unions, in total representing more than 7 million people (31 December 2004). It was founded in Munich, October 12, 1949.
German Conservative Party The German Conservative Party (Deutsche Konservative Partei or DKP) was a German political party of the Second Reich, founded in 1876. It was generally seen as representing the interests of the East Elbian junkers and the Evangelical Church, and had its political stronghold in the Prussian Diet, where the three-class voting system gave rural elites disproportionate power.
German Cross The German Cross (German: Deutsches Kreuz) was instituted by Adolf Hitler in 1942 as an award ranking higher than the Iron Cross First Class but below the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. It was issued in two divisions: gold and silver (the color of the laurel wreath around the swastika), the former being an award for bravery, the latter being for distinguished service and was considered a continuation of the War Merit Cross with swords.
German Crusade, 1096 The German Crusade of 1096 is that part of the First Crusade in which peasant crusaders, mostly from Germany, attacked Jewish communities. Although anti-Semitism had existed in Europe for centuries, this was the first organized mass pogrom.
German declaration of war against the Netherlands (May 10 1940) At 6:00 in the morning (Amsterdam time) on 10 May 1940 during the Battle of the Netherlands the German envoy Count Zech von Burkensroda gave Dutch minister of foreign affairs Van Kleffens the following German declaration of war. At least, it was later interpreted as such by the Dutch; from the German side it was at the time seen as a mere warning, hopefully intimidating the Dutch enough to accept German military protection.
German declension German declension is the declensional system of the German language. In keeping with a fairly conservative, fusional language, German marks nouns, pronouns, articles, and adjectives to distinguish case, number, and gender.
German Democratic Party The German Democratic Party, or Deutsche Demokratische Partei (DDP), was founded by leaders of the former Progressive People's Party (Fortschrittliche Volkspartei) and the left wing of the National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei) in the early days of the Weimar Republic. Their leaders included Walther Rathenau, Eugen Schiffer, Otto Preuss, Otto Gessler, and Erich Koch-Weser.
German Democratic Republic The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, or DDR; known in English as East Germany) was a communist state which existed from 1949 to 1990. The German Democratic Republic was established in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany on October 7, 1949, following the creation in May 1949 of the Federal Republic of Germany ("West Germany") in the zones occupied by the United States, Britain and France.
German Democratic Republic border system The GDR border system (also called the inner German border; in German, Innerdeusche Grenze or Deutsch-Deutsche Grenze) was an extensive system of fortifications that ran the entire 1381 km (858 mile) length of the border between East Germany (the German Democratic Republic, or GDR) and West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany, or FRG).
German Design Award The German Design Award (German: Deutscher Designpreis) is one of the council for styling (German: Rat fĂĽr Formgebung) and the Federal Ministry of economy and technology donated honouring for good design. The German design price has some specific features: thus enterprises can notapply for this directly, but are nominated by the Federal Ministry of economy and technology for this.
German Development Institute The German Development Institute (Deutsches Institut fĂĽr Entwicklungspolitik, or DIE) sees itself as the think tank for German development policy. It builds bridges between theory and practice and works within international research networks.
German Doctors for Developing Countries In 1980 the committee Ă„rzte fĂĽr die Dritte Welt (Doctors for Developing Countries) was established by Jesuit Father Bernhard Ehlen. The committee was founded in Frankfurt, Germany and still has its location there.
German election, 1912 The 13th German election of 1912 is most notable for the major breakthrough of the leftist Social Democratic Party (SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands), which for the first time became the largest party in the German Reichstag. It more than doubled its seat total from the 1907 election.
German election, 1928 The 5th German federal election of May 20, 1928, under the Weimar Republic. As with the previous election in 1924, the SDP gained a plurality of the seats but failed to gain a majority, however, their number did increase.
German election, 1930 The 6th German federal election of 14 September 1930, under the Weimar Republic. The number of seats increased from the last election in 1928 (491) to 577 seats, however, the SDP, who remained the largest party saw their share decrease.
German election, 1933 The 9th and last true German federal election of the Weimar Republic was held on March 5 1933, and was significant in that it was the last election to be held in Germany before World War II. Due to the success of the Nazi Party in the poll, its leader, and Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler was able to pass the Enabling Act, which effectively gave him the power of a dictator.
German euro coins German euro coins have three separate designs for the three series of coins. The 1, 2 and 5 cent coins were designed by Rolf Lederbogen, the design for the 10, 20 and 50 cent coins is by the hand of Reinhard Heinsdorff and the 1 and 2 euro coins were done by Heinz Hoyer and Sneschana Russewa-Hoyer.
German East Africa German East Africa (German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was Germany's colony in East Africa, including what is now Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanganyika, the mainland part of present Tanzania. It came into existence during the 1880s and ended during World War I, when the area was taken over by the British and Belgians.
German East Africa Company The German East Africa Company (German: Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft) was an organisation founded by Karl Peters (with imperial backing from Otto von Bismarck) on April 2, 1885, to govern German East Africa (modern Tanzania). The Company established the colony's first capital city at Bagamoyo, but soon moved the capital to Dar es Salaam.
German Emergency Acts The German Emergency Acts were passed on 30 May 1968 at the time of the First Grand Coalition between the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. The Emergency Acts faced opposition from outside the German parliament.
German Emigration Center The German Emigration Center (German: Deutsches Auswandererhaus) is a museum located in Bremerhaven, Germany dedicated to the history of German emigration, especially to the United States. Visitors can experience the process of a historical emigration.
German Empire The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich colloquially Deutsches Kaiserreich) is the name conventionally given in English, to the German state from the time of the proclamation of Wilhelm I of Prussia as German Emperor (January 18, 1871) to the abdication of Wilhelm II (November 9, 1918). The official name of the state in German was Deutsches Reich, but this continued in official use until 1943 and hence does not exclusively refer to the period of imperial rule.
German federal election, 1949 The 1st German federal election, 1949, was conducted on August 14 1949, to elect members to the Bundestag (lower house) of West Germany. This was the first free election conducted in Germany after the Nazi period.
German federal election, 2005 German federal elections took place on September 18, 2005 to elect the members of the 16th German Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany. They became necessary after a motion of confidence in Chancellor Gerhard Schröder failed on July 1.
German folklore German folklore shares many characteristics with Scandinavian folklore and English folklore due to their origins in a common Germanic mythology. It reflects a similar mix of influences: a pre-Christian pantheon and other beings equivalent to those of Norse mythology; magical characters (sometimes recognisably pre-Christian) associated with Christian festivals, and various regional 'character' stories.
German football champions The coronation of the first Champions in imperial Germany in 1903 established the tradition of a great footballing nation. Since 1903, 93 championships have been decided: 49 clubs share the honour of having been amongst the nations top two teams.
German Faith Movement The German Faith Movement (Deutsche Glaubensbewegung) was closely associated with Jakob Wilhelm Hauer during the Third Reich (1933-45) and sought to move Germany away from Christianity towards a religion based on "immediate experience" of God. Hauer was a professor at Tuebingen.
German Federal Coast Guard The coast guard of Germany (German: Koordinierungsverbund KĂĽstenwache) is an association of a number of federal agencies. It is not a single entity, like the coast guards of other countries, for instance the United States Coast Guard.
German Federal Constitutional Court abortion decision The German Supreme Court addressed the issue of abortion two years after Roe v. Wade in a decision known as BVerfGE 39,1, holding that the unborn have a right to life guaranteed by the constitution, that abortion is "an act of killing", and that the fetus deserves legal protection throughout its development.
German Federal Republic "German Federal Republic" (Deutsche Bundesrepublik, DBR) was one of the derogatory terms used by the communist German Democratic Republic to refer to the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1950s until 1968, when they started using the propaganda term "BRD".
German Fest German Fest is an ethnic festival in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Henry Maier Festival Park, on the Lake Michigan lakefront. It was first held in 1981 and billed as the largest German celebration in North America.
German Football Association The German Football Association (DFB) (German: Deutscher FuĂźball-Bund) is the governing body of football in Germany. It organises the German football leagues, including the national league, the Bundesliga and the men's and women's national teams.
German Footballer of the Year The title Footballer of the Year (FuĂźballer des Jahres) has been awarded in Germany since 1960. The award is determined by a poll of German football journalists from the Association of German Sports Journalists (Verband der Deutschen Sportjournalisten) and the publication Kicker.
German Fortress Division SwinemĂĽnde Fortress Division SwinemĂĽnde was an ad-hoc formation under the command of Baron Hermmann Von Pfel, and organized by Seekommandant Pommern (Naval Command Pomerania) in the port of SwinemĂĽnde. The division was created in 1945 primarily from German Navy personnel, although some Luftwaffe personnel were used as well.
German Fountain The German Fountain (in Turkish Alman Çeşmesi) is a gazebo styled fountain in the northern end of old hippodrome (Sultanahmet Square), Istanbul, Turkey and across from the Mausoleum of Sultan Ahmed I. It was constructed to commemorate the second anniversary of German Emperor Wilhelm II's visit to Istanbul in 1898.
German Freethinkers League The German Freethinkers League ('Deutsche Freidenkerbund') was an organisation founded in 1881 by the philosopher, physiologist and physician Ludwig BĂĽchner. Its aim was to provide a public meeting-ground and forum for materialist and atheist thinkers in Germany.
German grip German grip is a technique used to hold drum sticks and mallets to play percussion instruments. In this form of matched grip, the palms of the hands are parallel to the drumhead or other playing surface, and the stick is moved primarily with the wrist.
German Garden The term German Garden stands for a special type of architekture of gardens, which was influenced by the English garden-concept. Typical for this kind of parkdesign is the clear structure and the domestic animals, which are always there.
German Garrido German Garrido (born 15 June 1948) is a member of one of Spain's most successful golfing families. His brother Antonio and nephew Ignacio were only the second father-son combination to have played in the Ryder Cup.
German General Social Survey The German General Social Survey (GGSS/ALLBUS - Die Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften) is a national data generation program in Germany, which is similar to the American General Social Survey (GSS). Its mission is to collect and disseminate high quality statistical surveys on attitudes, behavior, and social structure in Germany.
German General Staff The German General Staff, (GroĂźer Generalstab, literally, Great General Staff) was an institution whose rise and development gave the German military a decided advantage over its adversaries. The Staff amounted to its best "weapon" for nearly two centuries.
German Geophysical Society The German Geophysical Society (German: Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft, DGG) is a society for geophysics in Germany; it was founded in 1922 in Leipzig, Germany on the initiative of the great seismologist Emil Wiechert, as Deutsche Seismologische Gesellschaft (German Seismological Society) but changed its name into the current one in 1924. Its main activities include the organization of an annual scientific conference of geophysicists mostly of German-speaking countries (or close personal or professional ties to them) and the publication of a major scientific journal, the Geophysical Journal International (GJI) in cooperation with the Royal Astronomical Society.
German Goldenshteyn German Goldenshteyn, or Goldenshtayn (2 September 1934 – June 10 2006) was born in the shtetl of Otaci, then in Romania, now in Moldova. He was a clarinetist and musicologist who brought his native region's klezmer tradition to the USA.
German Grey Rabbits German Grey Rabbits are a breed of rabbits noted for their size, much like the Flemish Giant. It gained international attention when a breeder sold the rabbits for food puposes to North Korea to aid the famine situation[http://www.
German humour German humour is for linguistic reasons quite different from British humour. German sentence construction, and its fewer double meanings (because of the way it creates compound words) mean that German humour has to rely more on humorous ideas than on plays on words.
German Heavy Panzer Detachment German Heavy Panzer Detachments/Battalions (), were battalion-sized World War II tank units, equipped with Tiger I and Tiger II heavy tanks. Originally intended to fight on the offensive during breakthrough operations, the German late-war realities showed them better used and much more capable of fighting in a defensive posture by providing heavy fire support and counterattacking enemy armored breakthroughs.
German champions (basketball) The team holding the record for title championships is TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, who have won 14 championships. Since 1997, however, Alba Berlin has dominated the league, winning their 7th title in 2003 as a result.
German Chamomile German Chamomile (Matricaria recutita), also spelt Camomile, is an annual plant of the sunflower family Asteraceae. Synonyms are: Chamomilla chamomilla, Chamomilla recutita (accepted name according to the Flora Europaea), Matricaria chamomilla, and Matricaria suaveolens.
German Christians The German Christian (Deutsche Christen) group was formed in 1932 and led by Ludwig MĂĽller. The group were supportive of the Nazi ideas about race and adopted Martin Luther's anti-Semitism, as well as his respect for state authority.
German Christmas traditions German Christmas traditions include the customs, folklore, history, family practices, and religious and secular symbols associated with this holiday. The Christmas season in Germany starts at the beginning of Advent, which is four Sundays before Christmas Day.
German idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with romanticism and the revolutionary politics of the Enlightenment.
German immigration to Puerto Rico German businessmen first immigrated to Puerto Rico during the early part of the 19th century. During the early 19th century, the Spanish Crown issued the Royal Decree of Graces (Real CĂ©dula de Gracias) which allowed the immigration of people of non-Hispanic origin to immigrate to the island.
German in the United States Before World War I, more than 6% of American schoolchildren received their primary education only in German. Furthermore, as of the 2000 census, more than 45 million Americans claim they have German ancestors, the largest reported white ethnic group.
German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame The German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, was founded in 1988 and is located in Augsburg, Germany. The Hall serves to honor those individuals that have contributed to the sport of hockey in the Germany and has displays and memorabilia depicting the significant contributions of players, coaches, referees and other important figures in the sport.
German Institute for Economic Research The German Institute for Economic Research, German Deutsches Institut fĂĽr Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) is one of the leading research institutes in Germany. It is an independent, non-profit academic institution which is involved in basic research and policy advice.
German Institute of Science and Technology (Singapore) The German Institute of Science and Technology (abbreviated GIST) is a research and education institute setup in Singapore as a result of a collaboration between the Technical University of Munich, the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.
German Instrument of Surrender, 1945 The German Instrument of Surrender, 1945 refers to the legal instrument of World War II in which the High Command of the German Armed Forces surrendered simultaneously to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force and to the Soviet High command.
German K class cruiser The K class was a class of light cruisers of the German Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine, consisting of three ships named after German cities starting with the letter "K": Königsberg, Karlsruhe, Köln. It's also referred to as Königsberg class according to the convention of naming classes after the first completed vessel.
German Kim German Nikolaevich Kim (Russian: Герман Николаевич Ким) is Head of the Department of Korean Studies at Al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan and one of the leading internationally-recognised scholars of the Koryo-saram.
German language German (Deutsch, ) is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 95 to 110 million native speakers and another 20 million non-native speakers.
German Labour Front The German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF) was the National Socialist national unity workers' organisation for free and diverse trade unions, which were outlawed in 1933 after Hitler's rise to power. Its leader was Robert Ley, who stated its aim as 'to create a true social and productive community' (Smelster, 1988).
German Leather Museum The German Leather Museum (Deutsches Ledermuseum), located in Offenbach, Hesse, close to Frankfurt, Germany, is one of the largest museums of the world with a wide variety of collection of leather items, including some exhibits, which are believed to more than 3,000 years old. The museum has three wings, namely, the German Shoe Museum, the Museum for Applied Art and the Ethnology Museum.
German modal particle German modal particles (in German: Modalpartikeln or Abtönungspartikeln) are a part of speech in the German language. These words have a dual function: reflecting the mood or attitude of the speaker or narrator, and highlighting the sentence focus.
German model The term German model is most often used in economics to describe post-World War II West Germany's means of using (according to University College London Professor Wendy Carlin) innovative industrial relations, vocational training, and closer relationships between the financial and industrial sectors to cultivate economic prosperity.
German motorcycle Grand Prix The German motorcycle Grand Prix is part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Championship. Due to the existence of two German states from 1949 to 1990, East German and West German Grands Prix were held during that period.
German mysticism German Mysticism (Sometimes called Dominican mysticism or Rhineland mysticism) is the name given to a christian mystical movement in the Late Middle Ages, that was especially prominent in Germany, and in the Dominican order.
German Marshall Fund The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a non-partisan American public policy and grantmaking institution dedicated to promoting greater cooperation and understanding between the United States and Europe.
German Mills Creek (Don) German Mills Creek is a tributary of the Don River. It originates in Richmond Hill (near Yonge Street and 16th Avenue), flows south through Markham and empties into the Don River East Branch just south of Steeles Avenue near Leslie Street.
German Museum of Technology (Berlin) Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin ("German Museum of Technology") was founded in 1982 and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts. The museum's main emphasis is on rail transport, but it also features exhibits of various sorts of industrial technology.
German naval ship Deutschland (A59) A59 Deutschland was a naval ship of the Bundesmarine, the West German navy. It was constructed and used as a trainings ship (school ship) in peace times and planned for multi role missions in times of war: troop ship, hospital ship, minelayer and more.
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