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German Book Prize
The German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis) is an annual award for the German-language "Novel of the Year", presented each year since 2005 at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
German Brazilians
German Brazilians (teuto-brasileiros, Deutschbrasilianer) are Brazilians of German ancestry, settled from 1824 at São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul; speakers of Hunsrückisch; shaped by the Vargas-era Nationalization Campaign and Blumenau's Oktoberfest.
German Bundesrat
The German Bundesrat is the federal council of Germany's 16 state governments: 69 weighted votes cast en bloc under Basic Law Article 51, consent-bill veto power, an annually rotating presidency, and a history reaching back to the North German Federation.
Germán Busch
Germán Busch Becerra was a Bolivian military officer and Chaco War hero who served as president of Bolivia from 1937 until his death in 1939, ruling first as constitutional president and then as dictator.
German camp brothels in World War II
German camp brothels (Lagerbordell) were brothels the SS established in Nazi concentration camps between 1942 and 1945, staffed by women forced into sexual labor as an incentive for prisoner workers.
German Canadians
German Canadians, one of Canada's largest European-origin groups (3.0 million in 2021), trace settlement from 1750s Lunenburg through Mennonite, prairie, and postwar immigration, with heavy assimilation and declining German mother-tongue retention.
German casualties in World War II
German casualties in World War II: military and civilian deaths of Nazi Germany 1939-1945, also called deutsche militärische Verluste. Rüdiger Overmans' sample-based study puts military dead at about 5.3 million, most in the war's final year; USSBS air-raid civilian deaths 305,000.
German Caucasus expedition
The German Caucasus expedition was a military expedition sent by the German Empire to Transcaucasia in mid-1918, during World War I, to stabilize pro-German Georgia and secure Baku oil.
German children's and young adult literature
German children's and young adult literature, or Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (KJL), is German-language literature written for or read by children and adolescents, emerging in the late 18th century.
German chocolate cake
German chocolate cake is an American layered chocolate cake with coconut-pecan frosting, named after Samuel German, creator of Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate in 1852; the 1957 Dallas recipe popularized it.
German Climate Protection Act
The German Climate Protection Act (Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetz, KSG) is Germany's central federal climate law, first adopted in December 2019, setting targets of 65% emissions cuts by 2030 and neutrality by 2045.
German Coal Commission
The German Coal Commission, formally the Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment (Kommission "Wachstum, Strukturwandel und Beschäftigung"), advised the German government on phasing out coal power.
German cockroach
German cockroach (Blattella germanica), the world's most prevalent indoor cockroach pest; originated in southeast Asia from B. asahinai about 2,100 years ago, carries asthma allergens, and shows extensive insecticide resistance including glucose-averse bait avoidance.
German cockroach (Blattella germanica) allergen skin prick test solution
German cockroach (Blattella germanica) allergen skin prick test solution (德国小蠊变应原皮肤点刺液), Wolwo Bio-Pharmaceutical's NMPA-approved 7000 DU/ml in-vivo diagnostic for type I cockroach allergy, sensitivity 91.63%, specificity 85.45%.
German colonial empire
The German colonial empire (Deutsches Kolonialreich) was the German Empire's overseas holdings, 1884–1918: Togo, Cameroon, German South West Africa, German East Africa, New Guinea, Samoa, and Kiaochow, lost after World War I.
German colonization of Bohemia and Moravia
German colonization of Bohemia and Moravia was the medieval settlement of German-speaking settlers in the Czech lands, mainly from the 12th to the 14th centuries.
German colonization of southern Brazil
German colonization of southern Brazil was a state-sponsored settlement program, begun in 1824, that brought German farmers to Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná.
German colonization of Transylvania
The German colonization of Transylvania, beginning under King Géza II around 1150, settled German colonists known as the Transylvanian Saxons on Hungary's southeastern frontier, where they gained self-government.
German Confederation
The German Confederation (Deutscher Bund) was a union of German states and free cities founded at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and dissolved in 1866.
German Conservative Party
German Conservative Party (Deutschkonservative Partei), Prussian conservative party 1876–1918, founded with Bismarck's backing, representing Junker agrarian interests, adopting the 1892 Tivoli Program, dissolving into the DNVP in 1918.
German contract law
German contract law, governed mainly by the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) of 1900, covers contract formation, remedies for breach, good faith, and standard terms; reformed 1 January 2002, no consideration doctrine.
German Critics' Prize
The German Critics' Prize (Deutscher Kritikerpreis) was an annual German cultural prize awarded from 1951 to 2009 by the Association of German Critics in nine fields, including literature, film, and music.
German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee
The German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, called a pocket battleship, sank nine Allied merchant ships in 1939 before being scuttled off Montevideo after the Battle of the River Plate.
German cruiser Admiral Hipper
The German cruiser Admiral Hipper, lead ship of her class, served in the Kriegsmarine during World War II and sank seven ships of convoy SLS.64.
German cruiser Admiral Scheer
The German cruiser Admiral Scheer, a Deutschland-class pocket battleship commissioned in 1934, is best known for her 1940–41 Atlantic raiding cruise, which sank 113,223 tons of shipping.
German cruiser Blücher
The German cruiser Blücher, also known as DKM Blücher, was a heavy cruiser sunk by Norwegian guns and torpedoes in the Oslofjord on 9 April 1940 while leading the force to capture Oslo.
German cruiser Deutschland
The German cruiser Deutschland, a German pocket battleship renamed Lützow in 1939, was commissioned in 1933, raided Atlantic commerce, and was sunk as a Soviet target in 1947.
German cruiser Prinz Eugen
Prinz Eugen, a German heavy cruiser of the Admiral Hipper class, was built in 1938 and survived the war, later serving in US atomic bomb tests.
German cuisine
German cuisine (deutsche Küche) is the set of regional cooking traditions of Germany; no single national cuisine exists since unification in 1871. Known for 3,000+ breads on UNESCO's intangible heritage list, ~1,200 sausages, the 1516 beer Purity Law, and regional dishes from northern seafood to Bavarian Weißwurst.
German customary units
German customary units were the weights and measures used across the Holy Roman Empire and German states before metrication, including the Fuss (foot), Elle (ell), and Pfund (pound).