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For a list of the main leaders and most important party figures see: List of Nazi Party leaders and officials. This list has been divided into four sections for reasons of length: List of Nazis (A–E): from Gustav Abb to Hanns Heinz Ewers (~ 247 names) List of Nazis (F–K): from Arnold Fanck to Kurt Küttner (~ 268 names)
The name Germany and the other similar-sounding names above are all derived from the Latin Germania, of the 3rd century BC, a word simply describing fertile land behind the limes (frontier). It was likely the Gauls who first called the people who crossed east of the Rhine Germani (which the Romans adopted) as the original Germanic tribes did ...
In German, Kevinismus ("Kevinism") is the negative preconception German people have of Germans with trendy, exotic-sounding first names considered to be an indicator of a low social class. [1] The prototypical example is Kevin , which like most such names came to Germany from Anglo-American culture.
Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away
The Americans and Canadians referred to Germans, especially German soldiers, as Heinies, from a diminutive of the common German male proper name Heinrich. [11] For example, in the film 1941 the Slim Pickens character calls a German officer "Mr Hynee Kraut!". Heinie is also a colloquial term for buttocks, in use since the 1920s. [12]
The Swabians in modern southern Germany. The name is first attested in Caesar and then attested referring to a number of tribes in northern Germania in Tacitus. [345] The Swabians are frequently mentioned in German epic, as characters travelling from the Rhine to Hungary or Italy must pass through their territory. Several minor heroes are Swabians.
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Relatively few place names in the United States have names of German origin, unlike Spanish or French names. Many of the German town names are in the Midwest, due to high German settlement in the 1800s. Many of the names in New York and Pennsylvania originated with the German Palatines (called Pennsylvania Dutch), who immigrated in the 18th ...