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Mar 25, 2024 · Thomas Mann (born June 6, 1875, Lübeck, Germany—died August 12, 1955, near Zürich, Switzerland) was a German novelist and essayist whose early novels— Buddenbrooks (1900), Der Tod in Venedig (1912; Death in Venice ), and Der Zauberberg (1924; The Magic Mountain )—earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
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May 9, 2024 · Alfred Jodl (born May 10, 1890, Würzburg, Germany—died October 16, 1946, Nürnberg) was a German general who, as head of the armed forces operations staff, helped plan and conduct most of Germany’s military campaigns during World War II. Primarily a staff officer during and after World War I, Jodl served as head of the department of ...
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2 days ago · Germany. One of Europe ’s largest countries, Germany encompasses a wide variety of landscapes: the tall, sheer mountains of the south; the sandy, rolling plains of the north; the forested hills of the urbanized west; and the plains of the agricultural east. At the spiritual heart of the country is the magnificent east-central city of Berlin ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Kaspar Hauser (born April 30, 1812—died December 17, 1833, Ansbach, Bavaria [Germany]) was a German youth around whom gathered one of the 19th century’s most-celebrated mysteries. On May 26, 1828, Hauser was brought before the authorities in Nürnberg, apparently bewildered and incoherent. With him he had a letter purporting to have been ...
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3 days ago · Ancient history. Germanic peoples occupied much of the present-day territory of Germany in ancient times. The Germanic peoples are those who spoke one of the Germanic languages, and they thus originated as a group with the so-called first sound shift ( Grimm’s law ), which turned a Proto-Indo-European dialect into a new Proto-Germanic ...
In Marxism: The contributions of Engels …writing of The Holy Family, The German Ideology, and The Communist Manifesto.The correspondence between them is of fundamental importance for the student of Das Kapital, for it shows how Engels contributed by furnishing Marx with a great amount of technical and economic data and by criticizing the successive drafts.…
Apr 23, 2024 · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born August 28, 1749, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died March 22, 1832, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist, considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era. Goethe is the only German literary figure whose ...
