German

German

German(s) may refer to:

  • something deriving from or relating to Germany
  • the German language, spoken in Germany and nearby countries
  • Germans, a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe
  • Ethnic Germans, a person who is of German descent
  • Germanic peoples, any of the historical Germanic peoples

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    Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)