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Germany at the FIFA World Cup
Germany at the FIFA World Cup: the DFB men's national team, four-time champions (1954, 1974, 1990, 2014) from eight finals, with 106 matches and 224 goals, eliminated by Paraguay on penalties in the 2026 Round of 32.
Germany at the Paralympics
Germany at the Paralympics: NPC Germany (DBS), competing since Rome 1960; 660 Summer and 236 Winter medals, fourth all-time in Winter; Barcelona 1992 best Games with 61 gold; Paris 2024: 49 medals, 12th.
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest: founding participant since 1956 with 2 wins (Nicole 1982, Lena 2010), 3 hosted contests, Big Five automatic finalist, and 2026 entry Sarah Engels finishing 23rd in Vienna.
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Germany at Eurovision Song Contest 2026 (Vienna): Sarah Engels performed "Fire" after winning Das Deutsche Finale 2026 on SWR; she finished 23rd of 25 in the Grand Final with 12 points; Bulgaria's DARA won.
Germany men's national basketball team
Germany men's national basketball team (DBB): reigning FIBA World Cup (2023, 8-0) and EuroBasket (1993, 2025) champion, Paris 2024 fourth place, FIBA world ranking No. 2, coached by Álex Mumbrú, captained by Dennis Schröder.
Germany men's national ice hockey team
Germany men's national ice hockey team (Deutscher Eishockey-Bund), ranked 7th by the IIHF with 4910 points; 2023 World Championship silver medalists, 2026 Worlds Group A team, and host of the 2027 Worlds in Mannheim and Düsseldorf.
Germany Must Perish!
Germany Must Perish! is a 1941 self-published pamphlet by Theodore N. Kaufman (Argyle Press, Newark) arguing against compromise with Germanism; Nazi propaganda under Goebbels amplified it via Diewerge's September 1941 pamphlet as proof of a Jewish plot.
Germany national football team
Germany national football team (Deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft), DFB-governed men's team; four World Cup titles (1954, 1974, 1990, 2014), three European titles, 21 World Cup appearances; coached by Jürgen Klopp since 2026 after Nagelsmann's round-of-32 exit to Paraguay.
Germany national football team manager
The Germany national football team manager, officially the Bundestrainer, is the head coach of Germany's national team appointed by the German Football Association, currently Jürgen Klopp.
Germany national under-21 football team
Germany national under-21 football team (U 21-Nationalmannschaft), the DFB's under-21 men's selection. Three-time UEFA U21 EURO champions (2009, 2017, 2021), 2025 runners-up; coach Antonio Di Salvo; qualified for the 2027 finals in Albania and Serbia.
Germany national youth football team
Germany national youth football team: DFB junior national sides (U15-U21 men, U15-U23 women). First junior international 1953; U20 World Cup 1981; swept U17, U19, U21 titles 2008-2009.
Germany women's national football team
The Germany women's national football team, known in German as Frauen-Nationalmannschaft, represents Germany in international women's football and has won eight European titles and two World Cups.
Germany–Japan relations
Germany–Japan relations, also known as Japanese-German relations, are the bilateral ties between Germany and Japan, beginning with a treaty of friendship signed by Prussia and Japan in 1861.
Germany–Russia relations
Germany–Russia relations: ties between Germany and Russia/Soviet Union, from Bismarck and Rapallo through Ostpolitik and energy partnership to the post-2022 rupture, Zeitenwende, sanctions, and Nord Stream sabotage.
Germany–Soviet Union relations (1918–1941)
Germany–Soviet Union relations, or Soviet-German relations, ran from 1918 to 1941: Rapallo restored ties in 1922, Hitler broke them in 1933, the 1939 pact partitioned Poland, and Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941.
Germany–United States relations
Germany–United States relations: bilateral ties between Germany and the USA, NATO allies since West German accession in 1955, with the US as Germany's second-largest trading partner in 2025 and about 36,000 US troops stationed in Germany.
Germany. A Winter's Tale
Germany. A Winter's Tale (Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen) is an 1844 satirical verse epic by Heinrich Heine, in which an exile returning from Paris surveys the political Germany of the Vormärz period.
Germany's Next Topmodel season 20
The German model casting show Germany's Next Topmodel (2025) celebrated its 20th anniversary, running on ProSieben and Joyn from February 13 to June 19, 2025.
Germes
Germes (BAtlas 23 H1) is an ancient tumulus site recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places, cited to the Barrington Atlas map 23 square H1, with a place record created by David Braund in 2012.
Germia
Germia (Myriangeloi), a Byzantine pilgrimage city in western Galatia at modern Gümüşkonak, Eskişehir, Turkey, famed for thermal springs and the archangel Michael church, the largest early Byzantine church ruin on the central Anatolian plateau, visited by Justinian.
Germicidal lamp
A germicidal lamp is an ultraviolet light source, usually a low-pressure mercury-vapor lamp emitting 253.7 nm UV-C, that inactivates bacteria, viruses, and protozoa in water, air, and surface disinfection.
Germie Bernard
Germie Bernard, born 2003, is an NFL wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, drafted 47th overall in 2026 after college stops at Michigan State, Washington, and Alabama.
Germin
Germin: wheat germination-marker glycoprotein, an oxalate oxidase (EC 1.2.3.4) and manganese homohexamer with SOD activity; founding member of the cupin-superfamily germin-like proteins (GLPs) in plant defense.
Germinal
Germinal (1993 film), Claude Berri's adaptation of Émile Zola's 1885 novel, starring Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, and Miou-Miou; released 29 September 1993, the costliest French film of its time.
Germinal center B cell
Germinal center B cell (GC B cell): a rapidly cycling mature B cell in lymph node germinal centers that undergoes somatic hypermutation and affinity selection in T-dependent responses, differentiating into memory B cells and plasma cells, and the origin of most B cell lymphomas.
Germinal centre-associated lymphoma protein
HGAL (GCSAM, GCET2) is a 178-amino-acid germinal center B-cell adaptor protein on chromosome 3q13 that enhances BCR signaling via Syk, inhibits lymphocyte motility, and predicts better survival in DLBCL and classical Hodgkin lymphoma.
Germination
Germination: the resumption of seed growth from water uptake to radicle emergence, controlled by the ABA–GA hormone balance, light, temperature, and RONS signaling; tested under ISTA standards for agriculture and restoration.
Germination test
A germination test is a laboratory procedure measuring the percentage of seeds in a lot that produce normal seedlings under controlled conditions of moisture, temperature, and light.
Germisara
Germisara, under Roman rule Thermae Germisara, was a Dacian and Roman settlement with a major thermal spa in the Mureș valley of present-day Hunedoara County, Romania.
Germiston
Germiston, Gauteng city in Ekurhuleni, South Africa; grew from the Simmer and Jack gold mine on farm Elandsfontein, named by John Jack after Glasgow; railway junction, Rand Refinery, Victoria Lake, about 356,806 residents (2022).