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This website is a companion to A History of German: What the past reveals about today's language by Joseph Salmons, Oxford University Press, 2012. The second edition is now being copyedited and should be available this fall. The book provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructible ...
Oct 29, 2009 · Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, a small Austrian town near the Austro-German frontier. After his father, Alois, retired as a state customs official, young Adolf spent ...
1945 End of the Second World War. The surrender of the German Wehrmacht on 7/9 May 1945 marked the end of the Second World War in Europe, and with it a period of inconceivable suffering. The Allies divided Germany into four occupation zones and Berlin into four sectors.
The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, [2] [3] and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages ( circa 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The community survived under Charlemagne, but suffered during the Crusades.
The origins of Black Forest cake can be traced back to the picturesque region of the Black Forest in southwestern Germany. In the 16th century, the region was known for its abundance of sour cherries and the production of cherry-based liqueurs. Locals started incorporating these cherries into desserts, giving rise to a cherry-infused cake that ...
Sep 6, 1999 · As a result of the invention of the printing press and Luther’s widespread influence, the written German language began to solidify. In fact, although the spelling (i.e. accent) of the 1534 translation may different than Modern German, the word selection and order would be considered perfectly good German today.
The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
