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German Labour Front
The German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF) was the Nazi mass organization that replaced Germany's trade unions after May 1933, claiming 25 million members by 1942.
German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language with about 130 million speakers, used in Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein and official partly in Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Belgium; its history runs from Old High German (750–1050) through Duden's 1880 orthography to the 1996 spelling reform.
Germán Larrea Mota Velasco
Germán Larrea Mota Velasco is a Mexican businessman who has led Grupo México, the country's largest mining corporation, since 1994, and is known as the copper king.
German literature
German literature (deutsche Literatur) is the literature written in German across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, from the 8th-century Hildebrandslied to Nobel laureates like Thomas Mann and Günter Grass.
German locomotive numbering and classification
German locomotive numbering and classification, also known as the DRG renumbering plan, is the system German state railways use to assign class and running numbers to locomotives.
German Lux
Germán Darío Lux, Argentine goalkeeper born 1982 in Carcarañá; won 2004 Athens Olympic football gold with River Plate, keeping a clean sheet all tournament; later Mallorca, Deportivo, and assistant coach.
Germán Martínez (Argentine politician)
Germán Martínez is an Argentine politician, a national deputy for Santa Fe and leader of the Union for the Homeland opposition bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.
German Mesa
Germán Mesa (Germán Mesa Fresneda, El Imán), Cuban shortstop born 1967, Olympic gold 1992 and silver 2000 with Cuba; later manager of Industriales, Nicaraguan champion, and Cuba national team manager from 2025.
German military administration in occupied France during World War II
German military administration (Militärverwaltung in Frankreich) was the Nazi occupation authority for northern and Atlantic-coast France, 1940–1944, headed by the Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich in Paris under Otto and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel and Kitzinger, supervising Vichy and exploiting the French economy.
German military brothels in World War II
German military brothels in World War II: Wehrmacht and SS-run brothels across occupied Europe, over 500 in occupied territories, plus Himmler's 1941 concentration camp brothels, staffed largely by coerced women.
German military rifles
German military rifles are the standard shoulder weapons of Germany's armed forces from 1898 to today, from the Gewehr 98 and Karabiner 98k to the G3, G36, and G95.
German mysticism
German mysticism (deutsche Mystik) is the German-language current of Christian mysticism flourishing from the 13th to 15th centuries, led by Meister Eckhart, Tauler, and Suso and centered on union of the soul with God.
German name
German name: personal names under German law, one or more Vornamen plus a Nachname; about 1.1 million surnames; 1 May 2025 reform allowing true double surnames for spouses and children.
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, founded in 1652 as the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, is the world's oldest continuously existing academy of medicine and natural sciences.
German National People's Party
Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP), German National People's Party, German nationalist-conservative monarchist party 1918-1933; largest right-wing party of the Weimar Republic, led by Alfred Hugenberg from 1928, allied with the NSDAP in the Harzburger Front and Hitler's 1933 cabinet, dissolved July 1933.
German nationalism
German nationalism: movement asserting German nationhood, from Napoleonic-era resistance and 1848 liberalism through völkisch racial ideology and Nazism to postwar constitutional patriotism and today's AfD.
German nationality law
German nationality law (Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht, StAG, Basic Law Art. 16): citizenship by descent, birth, declaration, adoption, or naturalisation; five-year residence and general dual citizenship since the 27 June 2024 StARModG; Nazi-era restitution under Art. 116(2) and §5 StAG.
German Navy
Deutsche Marine (German Navy), formerly Bundesmarine: the Bundeswehr's naval force, founded 1956, NATO-integrated, Baltic-focused, with six Type 212A submarines and new MEKO A-200 frigates replacing the cancelled F126 programme.
German New Guinea
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea), 1884–1914, was Germany's Pacific colony covering northeast New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Micronesian islands, run by a chartered company until 1899, then by the Reich, until Australian occupation in 1914.
German nobility
German nobility (Adel): hereditary estate defined by land, rank classes, Uradel vs Briefadel; privileges abolished by Weimar Article 109 in 1919, titles surviving in surnames; ~60,000 name bearers then, ~80,000 today.
German nuclear phase-out
The German nuclear phase-out was Germany's legally mandated exit from nuclear power, agreed in 2000 and completed on 15 April 2023 with the last three plants' shutdown.
German Nuclear Waste Management Fund (KENFO)
KENFO, the German Nuclear Waste Management Fund, is a public-law foundation established in 2017, capitalized with €24.1 billion paid by utilities E.ON, RWE, EnBW, and Vattenfall.
German occupation of Albania
The German occupation of Albania lasted from 8 September 1943, after Italy's armistice with the Allies, to 29 November 1944, restoring nominal independence as the Albanian Kingdom client state.
German occupation of Belgium during World War I
German occupation of Belgium (1914-1918): the German Empire's military administration after the August 1914 invasion, covering the 1914 atrocities, Hoover's CRB food relief, forced-labor deportations, Flamenpolitik, and liberation after the November 1918 armistice.
German occupation of Norway
German occupation of Norway (1940–1945): Nazi rule under Reichskommissar Josef Terboven and Quisling's Nasjonal Samling puppet government, marked by resistance, forced labor, and the deportation of Norwegian Jews.
German occupation of Serbia
The German occupation of Serbia was the military administration established by Nazi Germany over central Serbia, the Banat, and northern Kosovo after the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941.
German occupation of the Baltic states during World War II
The German occupation of the Baltic states was Nazi Germany's military and civilian administration of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from 1941 to 1944, under Reichskommissariat Ostland.
German occupation of the Channel Islands
German occupation of the Channel Islands, 1940–1945: the only British territory occupied in WWII. Covers demilitarization, deportations, Jewish persecution, forced labor, starvation, and liberation on 9 May 1945.
German order of battle for the invasion of Poland
The German order of battle for the invasion of Poland describes the disposition of German armed forces in 1939, revealing divisions divided into Army Group North and South.
German orthography
German orthography (Rechtschreibung) is the codified standard for written German, now set by the 2024 Amtliches Regelwerk of the Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung, adopted by Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol, Belgium's German community, and Liechtenstein.