Old High German

someone in a German accent yell, “Halt!” I am too scared to turn around but I know that we are in deep trouble. I am sweating like crazy and my heart is about to burst out of my chest. I am immediately forced to the ground and see that the rest of my crew is already bound by ropes. The…

Script Hitler, we all know his story.... Or Do We! Hitler, who was born on April 20, 1889 Braunau am Inn, in Austria was a German dictator and politician. After Germany's lost in World War 1, the German people were hit with a bad depression. People lost jobs and many were forced to move out of their homes. Money was scarce. The people of Germany thought it was time for a new leader. So feeling desperate, they elected a new leader… Hitler and his Nazi party In his first days, Hitler was a…

victory solidified the German speaking nation, with the exception of Austria, into a coherent state that would rival the European powers of the late 19th century. Having said that, the creation of the German Empire in 1871 was largely caused by the failure of the bourgeois uprisings in 1848. In this fashion, the establishment of the German Empire can be thought of as a counterrevolution caused by class struggle. In 1985, Hans Ulrich Wehler produced a book titled The German Empire 1871-1918,…

Germany: A Land of Tradition and Contrasts Organization and discipline are evident in everyday life for Germans. Public transportation operates like clockwork; traffic lights are synchronized, even retail stores are subject to Ladenschlussgesetz (store-closing law) (Somers 20). Everything done in German lives is done with order and efficiency. While we consider the German people in this light, they give us the impression of drones, adamant about following rules and regulations, and striving for…

Friedrich Ebert. When Kaiser Wilhelm fled to the Netherlands he told Freidrich to make a democracy to follow the Treaty of Versailles because, The treaty stated that Germany needed to change its ways of ruling over it’s people. So he did he gather the german Reich and they met at Weimar because berlin was too dangerous because of the communists rebellion. So there, in 1919 Germany changed its way of government and they…

For example, in the introduction Darnton explains that when the wall “fell” down and East Germans traveled to the West, the mental geography imposed by the wall to exhibit order was changed. With the ability to travel west albeit by a misunderstanding, the barrier ceased to exist at least metaphorically. In addition, part 2 revealed that for the East Germans the wall, which is undamaged from graffiti, was a protective barrier from the West. One of Darnton’s East Berlin friend…

I never thought I would someday live here. During my adolescent years in Germany I always dreamed of getting a college education, although no one in my family had done so. Looking back, I wish I would have had more guidance as how to continue after high school. Initially I wanted to apply at an art school, but the student career counselor had told me the application deadline for admission had already expired. An alternative choice was a language related course. The counselor advised me to first…

lucky I thought the whole way back. That's how we accidentally discovered where the Germans were keeping their munitions for half the western front. Wilsons pictures would help HQ(Head quarters) launch a major assault. There was just one problem. We made it back to the air base and went to the commanders office. Wilson knew that if he showed the commander these photos there would be a full air attack on the Germans base, which was good thing but Wilson was scared of getting into trouble and…

to be a participant in the war. One of the propaganda posters made in Germany has a snake with eight arrows and the number eight, entangling the snake. We can presume that the snake is the Alliances and the eight symbolizes the war bond that the Germans were merchandising at that time. You can see that the arrows are piercing the serpent, which symbolizes that the money that is put in the war bond will support the army of Germany to annihilate their opponent. Other posters such as the Australia…

person or their actions to help and benefit that person and to protect them from doing harm to themselves or others. The term originally came from Norway and Switzerland from German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Dutch settled in Pennsylvania in the late 1700s to 1800s. The term came from their Old High German word for “Witch” or “hexe ”. These immigrants brought their beliefs, customs, and practices with them and shared them in their new land. They also adopted some…