German
(adjective)
Of or relating to the country of Germany.
Examples of German in the following topics:
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German Immigration
- Between 1820 and World War I, many German political refugees came to America following a series of German revolutions.
- The largest flow of German immigration to America occurred between 1820 and World War I, during which time nearly six million Germans immigrated to the United States.
- Milwaukee was once known as "the German Athens," and radical Germans trained in politics in the old country dominated the city's Socialists.
- Although only one in four Germans fought in all-German regiments, they created the public image of the German soldier.
- In the late nineteenth century, many Germans in cities were socialists, and Germans played a significant role in the labor-union movement.
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German Nouns
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The German Confederation
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Toward a German Identity
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The German Empire
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German Migration
- Between 1742 and 1753, roughly 1,000 Germans settled in Broad Bay, Massachusetts (now Waldoboro, Maine).
- By 1775, Germans constituted about one-third of the population of the state.
- German farmers were renowned for their highly productive animal husbandry and agricultural practices.
- German immigrant John Jacob Astor was the first millionaire in the United States
- Describe the political and cultural commitments of the German presence in the Pennsylvania colony
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The German Revolutions of 1848
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The Anti-German Crusade
- Anti-German hysteria in the U.S. during World War I led to restrictions on speaking German and internment.
- During World War I, many German-Americans were broadly accused of being sympathetic to the German Empire without regard to their individual loyalties.
- Anti-German fervor during World War I resulted in the renaming of food that was of German origin simply sounded German.
- Allegations included spying for Germany or endorsing the German war effort.
- Illustrate how anti-German fervor played out in the forced registration, internment, and oppression of German-Americans.
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The Germanic Tribes
- They are identified by their use of Germanic languages, which diversified out of Proto-Germanic during the Pre-Roman Iron Age.
- These five dialects are distinguished as North Germanic in southern Scandinavia; North Sea Germanic in the regions along the North Sea and in the Jutland peninsula, which forms the mainland of Denmark together with the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein; Rhine-Weser Germanic along the middle Rhine and Weser river, which empties into the North Sea near Bremerhaven; Elbe Germanic directly along the middle Elbe river; and East Germanic between the middle of the Oder and Vistula rivers.
- Meanwhile, the eastern Germanic people continued their migratory habits.
- Germanic people were fierce in battle, creating a strong military.
- The Germanic Kingdoms and the Eastern Roman Empire in 526 CE
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Operation Barbarossa
- The Germans' belief in their ethnic superiority is discernible in official German records and by pseudoscientific articles in German periodicals at the time, which covered topics such as "how to deal with alien populations."
- After a German victory in Kiev, the Red Army no longer outnumbered the Germans and there were no more trained reserves directly available.
- By late December 1941, the Germans had lost the Battle for Moscow, and the invasion had cost the German army over 830,000 casualties in killed, wounded, captured or missing in action.
- A total of 75 percent of the entire German military participated.
- Clockwise from top left: German soldiers advance through Northern Russia, German flamethrower team in the Soviet Union, Soviet planes flying over German positions near Moscow, Soviet prisoners of war on the way to German prison camps, Soviet soldiers fire at German positions.