Germany

Geography:
● Divided into 16 federal states and has 9 neighboring states

Basic:
● Language: german
● Capital: Berlin
● Form of government: Federal Parliamentary Democracy--- meaning a democratic
form of government in which the party with the greatest representation in the
parliament forms the government, its leader becoming prime minister or
chancellor

Economy:
● Is Europe’s largest economy, and the fourth largest in the world, b/c or vehicles,
products of engineering, electronic equipment and chemicals.
● Their use of solar energy is internationally ground breaking

Cuisine:
● Germany is well known for its hearty and heavy meals
● Northern germany: a lot of potatoes in different forms of preparation
● Southern germany: dumplings and pasta
● Pork is the most consumed meat, usually in some kind of “wurst” form, which is
sausage.
● The potatoe also has a firm place in German cuisine

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http://www.y-project.info/yggdrasil/tasks/Typicals/typically_german_stuttgart_1.PDF

● Germany is still known as the country of poets and thinkers

● Some of the most renowned musical composers came from Germany like
Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach
● Germany is also famous for hosting “Oktober Fest”, a festival that takes place
each year during september and october where there are roller coasters and other
attractions and also giant tents where you can have your own two or three liters of
beer

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to-20-million-people-2013-3 (number of people dead source) 20 million people
● In 1929, Germany entered a period of severe economic depression and
widespread unemployment. The Nazis capitalized on this situation and began to
criticize the government, and win elections.
● They soon secured 230 of the 608 seats of the German parliament, following that,
Hitler was appointed German chancellor and soon came to control every aspect of
German life.
● All other political parties were banned from Germany
● In 1933 the Nazis opened their first concentration camp to house political
prisoners.
● But with Hitler's ideas about “pure blood” in Germany, that camp slowly evolved
into a death camp where countless thousands of Jews died from malnutrition,
disease, overwork, and execution.
● These camps prisoners included members of groups that Hitler considered unfit
for the new Germany; including artists, intellectuals, gypsies, the physically and
mentally handicapped, and homosexuals.
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/nazi-party

● Mention woman who survived Auschwitz because she was a twin.

● Tell her story and its significance that this actually happened too real people=
crazy to think about.
● Dr. Mengele twin experiments-- talk about what that is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdgPAetNY5U&t=676s

The arts and Germany:http://www.everyculture.com/Ge-It/Germany.html

● The arts in Germany are financed in large measures through subsidies from state
and local governments
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Angela Merkel https://www.biography.com/people/angela-merkel-9406424

● She is the current and first female chancellor of Germany
● She became chancellor of Germany in 2002 when she won the vote by just three
seats, and in 2009 was elected to serve a second term!
● She really made headlines in october of 2013 when she accused the U.S. of
tapping into her cell phone and spying on her. She felt that the U.S committed an
unacceptable privacy breach. And stated that “spying among friends is never
acceptable”
 ● She was sworn in for a third term in 2013, and recently re elected to serve a fourth
term in September of 2017

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