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German Memories in Asia: Holy Roman Empire Era War to Napoleonic Wars

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German Memories in Asia. My Memories in Asia. Sunday, December 23, 2007. Holy Roman Empire Era War to Napoleonic Wars. Another major factor that threw the German Nation into a mess was the rivalry between Prussia and Austria for the leadership over other German states which began since 1640. After the Peace of Hubertsburg in 1763, Prussia too became equally powerful and exerted a powerful influence on German affairs. The Congress of Vienna was an integral part in what became known as the Conservative Ord...

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German Memories in Asia: Roman Expansion in Ancient France & Germania

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German Memories in Asia. My Memories in Asia. Sunday, December 23, 2007. Roman Expansion in Ancient France and Germania. Julius Caesar invoked the threat of Germanic attacks as one justification for his annexation of Gaul ( modern France ) to Rome. As Rome expanded to the Rhine and Danube rivers, it incorporated many Celtic societies into the Empire. The initial purpose of the Roman campaigns was to protect Trans-Alpine Gaul by controlling the area between the Rhine and the Elbe. Caesar defeated Germanic...

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German Memories in Asia: Germans' Sufferings

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German Memories in Asia. My Memories in Asia. Sunday, December 23, 2007. Stephan, a Saxon-Anhalt in our discussion on various Second World War issues, posed vaguely the world should know how the Allied Forces destroyed buildings and killed thousands of people ruthlessly. German Chancellor Angela Merkel shared her grievances in front of Israel's national flag during a tree-planting ceremony near the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on January 30, 2006 and laid a wreath for the six million...

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German Memories in Asia: Ethnic Germans' Sufferings After World War I in the United States and Europe

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German Memories in Asia. My Memories in Asia. Sunday, December 23, 2007. Ethnic Germans' Sufferings After World War I in the United States and Europe. The pacifist Mennonite and Amish communities attracted considerable hatred, particularly during the American Revolution and the US Civil War, when many Mennonites and possibly Amish were imprisoned or forcibly conscripted. There was a popular view that Germans did not consider themselves part of America. In Canada, thousands of German born Canadians were i...

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German Memories in Asia: Latin American-Germans & Their Early Migration to Brazil

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German Memories in Asia. My Memories in Asia. Sunday, December 23, 2007. Latin American-Germans and Their Early Migration to Brazil. Birget, a student on city planning was telling her experiences in Cuba. Her experiences in the Caribbean Island were quiet strange. While she was narrating some of her observations, my discussion with walker came to mind. Walker had a marvelous experience in Belize and other Latin American countries with German descendant Latin Americans. In the next decades, however, waves...

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German Memories in Asia: Otto Von Bismarck and the Unification of German States

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German Memories in Asia. My Memories in Asia. Sunday, December 23, 2007. Otto Von Bismarck and the Unification of German States. When my discussion with Pascal turned into the unification of the German Nation and its emergence of the new European super power, how Otto von Bismarck played diplomacy and statesmanship surprised us. Before unification, the German Nation consisted of a multitude of principalities loosely bound together as members of the German Confederation. The Germanic Confederation of ...

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German Memories in Asia: December 2007

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German Memories in Asia. My Memories in Asia. Sunday, December 23, 2007. Otto Von Bismarck and the Unification of German States. When my discussion with Pascal turned into the unification of the German Nation and its emergence of the new European super power, how Otto von Bismarck played diplomacy and statesmanship surprised us. Before unification, the German Nation consisted of a multitude of principalities loosely bound together as members of the German Confederation. The Germanic Confederation of ...

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German Memories in Asia: A Discussion with Bavarian, Swabian, Franconian and Saxonian students

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German Memories in Asia. My Memories in Asia. Sunday, December 23, 2007. A Discussion with Bavarian, Swabian, Franconian and Saxonian students. Wolfgang Schabert was from Stuttgart and proud of his Swabian sub-culture which is dominantly in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg and the western part of Bavaria. He told the Swabians still preserve their unique culture and speak the melodious Swabian dialect among them frequently. Bavaria has a long historical background with the Bavarii tribes who were large and ...