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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
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Modern Standard German is based on High German and Central German, and is the first or second language of most Germans, but notably not the Volga Germans. [ 30 ] Low German , which is often considered to be a distinct language from both German and Dutch, was the historical language of most of northern Germany, and is still spoken by many ...
Date: 15 July 2020: Source: Empty map: File:World map (Miller cylindrical projection, blank).svg Information available on page Germans on the English Wikipedia; Number of Germans living abroad per country: NW, 1615 L. St. Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project Global Migration Map: Origins and Destinations, 1990-2017 (in en-US).
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.
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.