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German submarine U-110 (1940)
German submarine U-110 was a Type IXB U-boat of the Kriegsmarine, captured by the Royal Navy on 9 May 1941 while attacking convoy OB 318, with her Enigma machine and codebooks aboard.
German submarine U-166 (1941)
German submarine U-166 (1941), a Type IXC Kriegsmarine U-boat under Hans-Günther Kuhlmann, sank four ships including the Robert E. Lee before PC-566 destroyed it in the Gulf of Mexico on 30 July 1942; the wreck was found in 2001.
German submarine U-234
German submarine U-234 was a large Type XB minelayer of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, rebuilt as a long-range cargo submarine bound for Japan.
German submarine U-47 (1938)
German submarine U-47 was a Type VIIB U-boat of the Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, commanded by Günther Prien, best known for sinking HMS Royal Oak inside Scapa Flow in October 1939.
German submarine U-505
U-505, a German Type IXC submarine captured intact by the US Navy off West Africa on 4 June 1944, yielding Enigma machines and codebooks; now a Chicago museum exhibit.
German submarine U-534
German submarine U-534 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine, sunk by British aircraft in the Kattegat on 5 May 1945 and raised in 1993.
German submarine U-571
German submarine U-571 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, sunk with all 52 hands in the North Atlantic on 28 January 1944.
German submarine U-96 (1940)
U-96 was a German Type VIIC submarine of the Second World War, built in Kiel and commissioned in 1940, which sank 27 ships and became famous as the setting of Das Boot.
German support for Israel in the Gaza war
German support for Israel in the Gaza war, declared by Chancellor Scholz as standing at Israel's side, made Germany a leading arms supplier before a 2025 policy shift.
German Sveshnikov
German Sveshnikov (Герман Александрович Свешников), Soviet foil fencer (1937–2003). Two Olympic team foil golds (Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964), silver 1968, and nine world championship golds including individual titles in 1962 and 1966.
German tank problem
The German tank problem is the statistical problem of estimating a population's size from observed serial numbers, used by the Allies in World War II.
German tanks in World War II
German tanks in World War II were the Wehrmacht's armored fighting vehicles, from the Panzer I and II through the Panzer III and IV to the Tiger and Panther.
German Textile Workers' Union
Gewerkschaft Textil-Bekleidung (GTB), the German textile and clothing workers' union, founded 1949 in Bad Salzuflen, a DGB founding union, dissolved 1998 into IG Metall after 129 years of textile-union tradition.
German Train Drivers' Union
The German Train Drivers' Union (Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer), founded in 1867, is Germany's oldest occupational union, representing most locomotive drivers and known for strikes that won it an independent collective agreement in 2008.
German training ship Gorch Fock (1958)
The Gorch Fock is the sail training ship of the German Navy, a three-masted steel barque built in 1958 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg to train officer candidates.
German treaties in Usagara
The German treaties in Usagara were 1884 cession agreements concluded by Carl Peters with twelve chieftains in what is now Tanzania, leading to German imperial protection in 1885.
German Unity Day
German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit), Germany's national holiday on 3 October, marks the 1990 reunification when East Germany joined the Federal Republic; the only federal-law public holiday, hosted yearly by the Bundesrat-presidency state, Bremen in 2026.
German Universities Excellence Initiative
The German Universities Excellence Initiative (Exzellenzinitiative) was a competitive federal and state funding program launched in 2005 to promote top-level research, distributing 4.6 billion euros before its successor, the Excellence Strategy, took over in 2019.
German Village
German Village is a historic neighborhood just south of downtown Columbus, Ohio, built largely by German immigrants between the 1840s and 1890s and preserved as a historic district since 1960.
German war crimes
German war crimes: atrocities by Nazi Germany's military and regime in World War II, including the Holocaust, Commissar Order killings, 3.3 million Soviet POW deaths, and 20 million forced laborers, prosecuted at the Nuremberg IMT and Subsequent Nuremberg Trials.
German War Graves Commission
Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (VDK), the German War Graves Commission: humanitarian nonprofit founded 16 December 1919 in Berlin; maintains ~840 war cemeteries in 45 countries with 2.8 million dead, runs Graves Search Online, and introduced Volkstrauertag.
German wine
German wine: wine from Germany's 13 designated Anbaugebiete, about 103,000 ha, two thirds white varieties, Riesling on roughly 45% of world plantings, classified by Weingesetz origin tiers and Prädikate.
German wine classification
German wine classification: the statutory origin pyramid (Deutscher Wein to Prädikatswein), Prädikat ripeness terms, and the private four-tier VDP.Classification with Grosses Gewächs dry wines.
German Wirehaired Pointer
German Wirehaired Pointer (Deutsch Drahthaar), a German versatile gundog with a wiry, weather-resistant coat and beard; males 24-26 inches, 50-70 pounds, AKC-recognized 1959; bred from Pointer, Griffon, Stichelhaar, and Pudelpointer stock.
German withdrawal from the European Union
Dexit (German withdrawal from the European Union) is a hypothetical German EU exit, proposed mainly by the AfD, whose 2021 manifesto and 2022 congress endorsed it; studies cite 7.2 million EU-export jobs and major GDP losses.
German workers' and soldiers' councils 1918–1919
German workers' and soldiers' councils (Räte) were workplace- and unit-elected delegate bodies of the German Revolution of 1918/19, from the Council of People's Deputies to the December 1918 Reich Congress and Article 165.
German Workers' Party
German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP): right-wing antisemitic Munich party founded 5 January 1919 by Anton Drexler and Karl Harrer; Adolf Hitler joined September 1919 (member 555); renamed NSDAP after the 24 February 1920 Hofbräuhaus program.
German World War II camouflage patterns
German WWII camouflage patterns: disruptively patterned designs for Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS clothing, 1931-1945. Key names: Heeres-Splittermuster 31, Zeltbahn 31, Platanenmuster, Erbsenmuster, Leibermuster; designer Otto Schick; Strich lines mark Wehrmacht patterns.
German-Jewish literature
German-Jewish literature is the body of writing by Jews in the German language, most often dated from the late 18th century, when the Haskalah produced the first German poems and stories by Jewish authors.
German-language philosophers
German-language philosophers are thinkers of the German-speaking philosophical tradition, defined by language rather than citizenship, ranging from Meister Eckhart through Kant and Hegel to Husserl and Heidegger.