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Auslandsdeutsche (adj. auslandsdeutsch) is a concept that connotes German citizens, regardless of which ethnicity, living abroad, or alternatively ethnic Germans entering Germany from abroad. Today, this means a citizen of Germany living more or less permanently in another country (including expatriates such as long-term academic exchange ...
Today, less than 0.1% of the total population of Germany is Jewish. In 2019 there were also a growing number of at least 529,000 black Afro-Germans defined as people with an African migrant background. [63] Out of them more than 400 thousand have a citizenship of a Subsahara-African country, [75] with others being German
In some countries such as the United Kingdom, France and Spain, the designation of nationality may controversially take on ethnic aspects, subsuming smaller ethnic groups such as Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Northern Irish, Bretons, Catalans, and Basques, making it difficult to quantify a "British" or "French" ethnicity, for example.
These countries (with the addition of South Tyrol of Italy) also form the Council for German Orthography and are referred to as the German Sprachraum (German language area). Since 2004, Meetings of German-speaking countries have been held annually with six participants: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland: [1]
With this change in situation, the members of the German minorities, previously communities of status and prestige, were turned into undesirable minorities (though there were widespread elements of sympathy for Germany in many South American countries as well). For many German minorities, World War II thus represented the breaking point in the ...
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
Russia is the largest Christian country in Europe by population, followed by Germany and Italy. [83] According to Scholars, in 2017, Europe's population was 77.8% Christian (up from 74.9% 1970), [ 84 ] [ 85 ] these changes were largely result of the collapse of Communism and switching to Christianity in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc ...
After the war, Germany's and Austria-Hungary's loss of territory and the rise of communism in the Soviet Union meant that more Germans than ever constituted sizable minorities in various countries. [clarification needed] German nationalists used the existence of large German minorities in other countries as a basis for territorial claims.