German Cultural Nuggets
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- Fussgangerzone
- pedestrian only
- lufthansa
- german airline
- Gastarbeiter
- foreigns who brought in after WWII
- Wirtschaftswunder
- miraculaous recovery of economy
- Gestapo
- nazi police
- die Grunen
- green party used to be the swing state in german gov't
- Harz
- beautiful mounrains in the center of Germany
- Herrenchiemsee
- a castle and lake that is the duplicate of Versailles created by Ludwig II
- HH
- Hansestadt Hamburg.Hanseatic League
- Krupp
- a heavy industrial company that made tanks for hitler
- Kudamm
- Berlin's equivalent of 5th Avenue
- Kurswagen
- detachable train wagon
- Luftbrucke
- air export and import to berlin
- Meister
- master craftsman
- Azubi
- blue collar worker
- NPD
- Nationalist Party
- PDS
- Former communist party in the east
- Russlandgesetzt
- Russian Law
- Schweizer Banken
- private swiss banks
- SS
- Shutzstaffel elite force in charge of concentration camps
- Three Russian Cities
- Koln Trier Mainz
- Offentichle SChulen
- 99% of schools in germany are public
- Zivildienst
- army or community service(after high school)
- Zuangsarbeiter
- forced labor under Hitler
- 1933-1945
- hitler comes to power
- 5% clause
- a party much have 5% of votes to be recommended nationally
- weimar
- rebulic in germany b/w 1918 and 1933
- Auslandergesetzt
- the law that protects foreigners
- Ballungsgebeit
- megalopolis
- 1961
- the berlin wall went up
- 1936
- Berlin olympics (hitler wanted to showcase arian race)
- brandenburger tor
- main gate of berlin wall has big columns and victory chariot
- bundesrat
- senate. contries either have 3,4, or 5 senators based on size
- CDU
- republicans
- SPD
- democrats
- Bundestag
- house of reps.
- DDR
- east germany
- kleingarten/shrebergarten
- small plots of land outside the city, used for gardening
- Konditerei
- cafe
- Federbetten
- down filled comforters
- realschule
- school in between gymnasium
- Mosel
- a city/river in wester Germany known for wine production
- Jugendherberge
- youth hostile
- jundenliche
- teenagers
- telekom
- telecommunications
- Postbank
- banking services
- Postdienst
- Posting services
- ADAC
- german equivalent of AAA
- Bild Zeitung
- Hamgburg tabloids; known for large headlines
- der Haltenverbot
- can't park here
- die Reinigung
- cleaners
- besetzt
- busy
- normalerweise
- normally
- einverstanden
- understand
- selbverstandlich
- of course
- bloss
- only
- leer
- empty
- die Quittung
- recepit
- offentiche Verkehrsmittel
- public transportatoin
- Farhschule
- driving school
- sister city of stl
- stuttgart
- die susswaren
- sweets
- der beamte
- offical
- die Luftpost
- airmail
- der Breifkasten
- mailbox
- die Geschwindigskeitbegrenzung
- speed limit
- der Einfluss
- influence
- ausprobieren
- to try out
- allein
- alone
- die Nachbarin
- neighbor
- the mediterannean
- das meer
- baltic sea
- ost see
- biggest harbor in germany
- hamburg
- largest cty in southern germany
- munchen
- name of city where federal govt meets
- Berlin
- name of city before fall of wall
- Bonn
- 2 countries bordering germany in the west
-
frankreich niederlander
(france, netherlands) - river flowing west to east
- Donau
- river flowing into rhine
- mosel
- 2 large cities in megalopois
- dortmund dusseldorf
- names of 2 german states
- bayern nordrhein westfallen
- germany has how many states?
- 16
- start of romantische strasse
- wurzburg
- propulation of germany
- 86 million
- 1 euro worth how many dollars
- 1.20
- big city in former east germany
- dresden
- year wall came down
- 1989
- largest city in liechtenstein
- vaduzz
- 2 cities in austria
- vienna innsbruck
- 2 cities in swisterland
- zurich, bern
- Dusseldorf
- dorf means small town, but its not
- Schulausflug
- field trip
- koblenz
- where mosel and rhein meet
- rhein
- north to west ends in lake constanz
- kalte platte
- cold cuts
- Freiburg
- biggest city in the schwarzwald
- schwarzfahren
- riding on a subway without a ticket
- deutsches museum
- in munich focuses on science... similar to smithsonian
- eiserne vorhang
- iron curtain.. churchill came and talked about it in fulton missouri
- berliner mauer
- berlin wall
- vehkehrsknotenpunkt
- where all the trade routes come together
- freiereichstadt
- free imperialist city