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kaput (German spelling: kaputt), out-of-order, broken, dead; nix, from German nix, dialectal variant of nichts (nothing) Scheiße, an expression and euphemism meaning "shit", usually as an interjection when something goes amiss; Ur- (German prefix), original or prototypical; e.g. Ursprache, Urtext; verboten, prohibited, forbidden, banned. In ...
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
The Freikorps was an early volunteer paramilitary organizations formed in the wake of the German defeat in the First World War making up the German army in lieu of the restrictions mandated by the Treaty of Versailles; they consisted primarily of demobilized soldiers, disillusioned young men, and fanatical conservative nationalists who blamed ...
Tomorrow the world!) – popular slogan among Nazis during their push for political power. HIAG (German: 'Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit der Angehörigen der ehemaligen Waffen-SS, literally "mutual help association of former Waffen-SS members") was a Waffen-SS lobby group, founded by
General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.
Lady Godiva by John Collier, c. 1897, in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry. Lady Godiva: Edmund Blair Leighton depicts her moment of decision (1892). Lady Godiva (/ ɡ ə ˈ d aɪ v ə /; died between 1066 and 1086), in Old English Godgifu, was a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who is relatively well documented as the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and a patron of various churches and ...
Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch originating from the Afrikaners of South Africa, with over 7.1 million native speakers; [6] Low German, considered a separate collection of unstandardized dialects, with roughly 4.35–7.15 million native speakers and probably 6.7–10 million people who can understand it [7 ...
German spelling rules should be applied whenever possible. One problem has been what letters to use for sounds that do not exist in German, such as the palatal /c/ and /ʝ/ sounds, which are both pronounced and spelled differently in various dialects of Plautdietsch. Old Colony speakers pronounce these sounds by striking the middle of the ...