GERMANY CULTURE

GERMAN CULTURE THE RISE OF THE STATE SPANNED THE ENTIRE THE ENTIRE GERMAN SPEAKING WORLD.  TODAY IT HAS MANY CULTURAL ASPECTS -THEATRES, ORCHESTRAS, MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES.

THEY HAVE 23 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES IN GERMANY.ABOUT 100 MILLION NATIVE SPEAKERS AND 80 MILLION NON NATIVE SPEAKERS.  TWENTY SEVEN % OF THE FOLKS SPEAK TWO LANGUAGES.

THE RISE OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES AND DECLINE OF RELIGION RAISED QUESTIONS IN GERMAN PHILOSOPHY.  THESE CONCERNED RELATIONSHIPS OF KNOWLEDGE , FAITH, AND ETHICAL WAYS OF SEEING THE WOLD.  BY 1810THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN WAS FOUNDED BY A PHILOSOPHER AND INFLUENCED WESTERN UNIVERSITIES.  .

IN MUSIC GERMANY CLAIMS SOME OF THE MOST RENEWED COMPOSERS  - BACH, MOZART, BEETHOVEN AND ROMANTIC MUSIC.  THE NAZI ERA PRODUCED PROPAGANDA FILMS. THEY HAVE MANY ROCK FESTIVALS.  BY 1970 THEIR CAPITA, BERLIN, WAS THRIVING.  IT HAS MANY OPERA HOUSES AND CINEMAS..

GERMAN TV IS THE LARGEST IN EUROPE.  THIS ISA WHERE SOME OF THE  WORLD'S LARGEST MEDIA CONGLOMERATES ARE PRODUCING MARKETS  FOR TV, BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS.

GERMAN GOVERNMENT HAS LIMITED RESPONSIBILITIES WITH 61% OF GERMAN POPULATION BEING CHRISTIANS, 31% ARE CATHOLICS.  THEY HAVE MANY JEWS.

THERE ARE MANY FAMOUS INVENTORS AND SCIENTISTS WHO ARE CREDITED HERE.  HANS GEIGER, KONRAD ZUSE, ZEPPELIN, AND  AND VON BRAUN.  EINSTEIN  WAS CRUCIAL TO FOUNDING PRINCIPALS OF PHYSICS AMONG OTHERS.

GERMANY AND BAVARIA SHARE A CULINARY CUISINE SIMILAR TO AUSTRIA.  PORK IS USED FOR MANY DISHES.  GERMANY MAKES 1500 VARIETIES OF SAUSAGE.  THEY LIKE TO EAT LARGE BREAKFASTS.  THEY MAKE OVER 3OO TYPES OF BREAD IN BAKERIES.  GERMANY USED MANY ADOPTED INTERNATIONAL CUISINES.  BEER DRINKING HERE IS VERY POPULAR.  THEY LIKE WATCHING SPORTS  CARS.  PORCHE HAS WON 24 HOURS OF LE MANS, AND OTHER ENDURANCE RACES.

THEIR SOCIETY TODAY HAS MANY IDENTITIES.  THEY HAVE MANY ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES AND HAVE VARIOUS IMMIGRANTS.  THE GERMANS EMERGED FROM MIDDLES AGES.    ORIGINALLY PART OF ROMAN EMPIRE EMERGED HERE IN 1648, AFTER 30 YEARS OF WAR IN 1618 TO 1648  THIS WAR RUINED OVER 20 MILLION FOLKS.  AFTER THIS WAR GERMANY BECAME DIVIDED INTO INDEPENDENT STATES.

AFTER THIER FRENCH REVOLUTION AND WARS FROM 1803 TO 1815, NATIONALISM CLASHED WITH REACTION.  IN 1848 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION MODERNIZED THE GERMANY ECONOMY.  THEN BERLIN GREW IN POWER.  GERMAN UNIVERSITY  BECAME WORLD CLASS CENTERS FOR SCIENTISTS AND MUSIC AND ARTS FLOURISHED.

IN THE 30'S DEPRESSION HIT GERMANY HARD.  ADOLF HITLER IN 33 CAME TO POWER AND TOOK CONTROL  OF TWO OTHER NEARBY COUNTRIES INITIATING WW II.  HITLER INVADED RUSSIA AND THAT WAS A STRETCH FOR HIM.  IT BECAME A HOLOCAUST AND KILLING 6 MILLION JEWS AND 5 MILLION POLES AND SOVIETS.U.S. ENTERED THIS WAR AND THE GERMAN ARMY COLLAPSED IN 1945!

GERMANY WAS SPLIT INTO DEMOCRATIC WEST GERMANY AND COMMUNIST EAST GERMANY.  MANY FLED TO THE WEST.

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