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10 unusual facts about German


Anti-German

Anti-German sentiment suspicion or hostility towards Germany or the German people

Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod

The material in the book series has been adapted into a DVD, a board game, and a computer game.

German-American internment

In 2007, the U.S. Senate passed the Wartime Treatment Study Act, which would examine the treatment of ethnic groups targeted by the U.S. government during World War II.

German-Hanoverian Party

The party was founded on 31 December 1869, in protest of the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by the Kingdom of Prussia in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War.

German-Malaysian Institute

It was located at Taman Shamelin-Perkasa, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur but has moved to the new campus in Jalan Ilmiah, Taman Universiti, 43000 Kajang, Selangor.

German-Pennsylvanian Association

The first top chairperson was publishing editor Dr. Michael Werner who established the Pennsylvania German newspaper Hiwwe wie Driwwe and an archive for Pennsylvania Dutch literature in Ober-Olm.

Heinrich Hellwege

Heinrich Peter Hellwege (born August 18, 1908 in Neuenkirchen; died October 4, 1991 in Neuenkirchen) was a German politician (DHP, DP and CDU).

Ibero-German

Ibero-German means of or pertaining to people of Spanish or Portuguese descent living in Germany or the German speaking countries.

William Le Queux

His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter of which was a phenomenal bestseller.

World War II political cartoons

In contrast to official government-sponsored propaganda, German-occupied Europe also produced resistance cartoons mocking the new order.


1584 in music

Daniel Friderici, German cantor, conductor, and composer (died 1638)

A35 autoroute

On the German side of the frontier, plans to build a final stretch of Autobahn to connect the French A35 directly with the German A65 at Kandel were not implemented during the 1990s when the focus of Autobahn construction switched to the eastern side of the country.

Alois Dessauer

Alois Joseph Dessauer (born Aron Baruch Dessauer; February 21, 1763, Gochsheim - April 11, 1850, Aschaffenburg) was a famous German court banker (Court Jew).

Apple Creek, Missouri

In the early 1820s German Catholic immigrants from the Baden area were the first to settle Apple Creek.

Basel Evangelical Mission Parsi High School, Thalassery

The school, managed by the North Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India, was upgraded to a high school by Rev. C. Mueller who came here to assist German missionary Hermann Gundert.

Bentheim-Tecklenburg

Bentheim-Tecklenburg was a German district based in the region around Tecklenburg in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Betley Bridge

During the Second World War the Steyning Line was an important route to move sugar beet from Sussex farms from Henfield station towards the capital, and Betley Bridge was a strategic target for German bombers.

Bubble car

Most bubble cars were manufactered in Germany, including by the former German military aircraft manufacturers, Messerschmitt and Heinkel.

Bunsenite

It was first described in 1868 for a sample from a hydrothermal nickel-uranium vein from Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany and named for German chemist Robert William Eberhard Bunsen (1811–1899).

Chil Rajchman

With the work-permit issued by the Judenrat on German orders, Rajchman went to live and work in Ostrów Lubelski.

Daniel Alarcón

The German translation of Lost City Radio by Friedericke Meltendorf received the International Literature Award from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Domela

Harry Domela (1905–1978), Latvian-born German impostor who pretended to be a deposed German crown prince

Eidsvold-class coastal defence ship

Obsolete by the time of the German invasion, both Eidsvold class ships were sunk during the first Battle of Narvik.

Europahalle

The venue has featured a number of world record performances in athletics, including a jump of 2.07 m in the high jump by Heike Henkel in 1992, when the Europahalle hosted the German Indoor Championships.

George Silk

Trapped with the famed Desert Rats at Tobruk in Libya, he was captured by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces but escaped 10 days later.

Give Me the Music

It's also been covered by the German band Queensberry and released as their debut clip following their success on German Popstars in 2008 and Nicki French is too releasing a version of the song on Energise Records in 2009.

Grenzlandring

The Grenzlandring (German for "border-region ring"), sometimes Grenzland-Ring written, is a former high-speed race track oval in the Lower Rhine area of Germany, around the town of Wegberg, located close to Mönchengladbach and the Dutch town of Roermond.

Gyromitra infula

The fungus was first described in 1774 by German mycologist Jacob Christian Schäffer as Helvella infula (the original genus spelling was Elvela).

Hector Garaud

On 22 December 1917, he became an ace, teaming with Marcel Henriot and Gabriel Guérin to shoot down a German two-seater over Livry-Louvercy.

History of U.S. foreign policy

President Wilson vehemently denounced German violations of American neutrality that involved loss of life, most famously in the torpedo attack on the RMS Lusitania in 1915 that killed 128 American civilians but which may have been carrying war munitions.

Jeffrey Gedmin

He earned his Masters degree in German Area Studies (Literature concentration) from American University in Washington, D.C. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from American University and also studied musicology for a year at the University of Salzburg in Austria.

Johann Ernst Hebenstreit

Johann Ernst Hebenstreit (January 15, 1703 – December 5, 1757) was a German physician and naturalist born in Neustadt an der Orla.

Joseph de Marliave

Some of his book on Beethoven was a translation and paraphrase of the 1885 book in German by Theodor Helm.

Jurek Becker

After completing his national service in the East German army in the 1950s, during which time he became firm friends with the actor Manfred Krug, Becker studied philosophy in East Berlin but was expelled for expressing non-conformist views.

Kennst du die Stars

Bushido and Oliver Pocher poking fun at German celebrities, including Sarah Connor, Mario Barth, Sido and Detlef "D" Soost.

Killerpilze

In July 2008, their song "Verrockt" is used in the German soundtrack of Camp Rock.

Martin Buber

--This source says this Martin Buber's birthdate and death is 1878 to 1965 so it has to be the same person-->Chinesische Geister- und Liebesgeschichten included the first German translation ever made of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

Milieu

Milieu is the word for environment in French, and, for hundreds of years, also in Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, English, and other languages that were strongly influenced by French culture and French language, primarily during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Millowitsch

Peter Millowitsch (born 1949), German actor and current director of Volkstheater Millowitsch

Mittelrhein

Middle Rhine (German: Mittelrhein), the Rhine River between Bingen and Bonn, Germany

Mona Weissmark

In 2006 Justice Matters was made into a documentary television film, aired on national German television WDR.

Monument to Freedom and Unity

The Monument to Freedom and Unity (Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal) is a planned national German monument in Berlin commemorating the country's peaceful reunification in 1990 and earlier 18th, 19th and 20th century unification movements.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 1901 to the German physiologist Emil Adolf von Behring, for his work on serum therapy and the development of a vaccine against diphtheria.

Parasite aircraft

After that, this squadron, based in the Crimea, carried out a tactical attack on a bridge over the river Dneiper at Zaporozhye, which had been captured by advancing German troops.

Piero Calamandrei

The German general Albert Kesselring who was responsible for various war crimes during the Nazi occupation of Italy had been sentenced to death, a sentence that was later commuted.

Plan Frederiks

Plan-Frederiks was a plan made up by the Dutch politicians K.J. Frederiks and J. van Dam that was meant to protect Jewish people in name of the German people during World War II.

Robert Böhm

Böhm went through his youth playing for various German sides, including the youth departments of KFC Uerdingen 05, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Schalke 04.

Sadomania

Sadomania – Hölle der Lust is a 1981 German-Spanish women in prison film directed by Jesús Franco, starring Ajita Wilson.

Sapper

Here the retreating Ottoman and German rearguard had blown up the bridge's central arch which was repaired in five hours by Sappers attached to the Australian Mounted Division.

Siege of Magdeburg

Siege of Magdeburg (1813–1814), a siege of the German city by forces of the First French Empire during the War of the Sixth Coalition, which ended with Napoleon's abdication

Sonia Martínez

But her career was put an end in 1986, when Sonia was in Ibiza filming an episode of the German TV series Großstadtrevier, in what she played the role of a police woman.

Stephan Breuing

Stephan Breuing (born September 21, 1985 in Bochum) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 2005.

Steve Vaillancourt

Shawn Jasper, R-Hudson, Rep. David Hess, R-Hooksett, and Rep. David B. Campbell, D-Nashua) was formed in order to compel Vaillancourt to form an acceptable apology to the House; Vaillancourt offered two unaccepted apologies, one offering never to mention any German words on the floor, until his third apology was finally accepted by the House.

Taimo Toomast

He has performed as guest soloist in many other German theatres (Gera, Bauzen, Osnabrück, Passau).

Treaty of Zgorzelec

The Treaty of Zgorzelec (Full title The Agreement Concerning the Demarcation of the Established and the Existing Polish-German State Frontier, also known as the Treaty of Görlitz and Treaty of Zgorzelic) between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR) was signed on 6 July 1950 in Polish Zgorzelec, since 1945 the eastern part of the divided city of Görlitz.

UDC Finance Limited

(Heidelberg), a German banker who came to New Zealand at the age of 50 after fleeing Nazi Germany.

Werturteilsstreit

John Dewey - Logik. Die Theorie der Forschung -, 1986 (Published in German 2002 as "Sozialforschung")

Wie die Schlesier Christen wurden, waren und sind: Ein Beitrag zur schlesischen Kulturgeschichte

Wie die Schlesier Christen wurden, waren und sind: Ein Beitrag zur schlesischen Kulturgeschichte (How the Silesians became, were and are Christians: a contribution to Silesian cultural history) is a 2011 book by German theologian Wolfgang Nastainczyk published by Schnell & Steiner.

XX Corps

XX Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army prior to and during World War I