Germans
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Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language. The constitution of Germany, implemented in
The Reichstag, seat of the German Parliament, dedicated Dem deutschen Volke (To the German people)
The Holy Roman Empire in 972 (red line) and 1035 (red dots) with the Kingdom of Germany, including Lotharingia, marked in blue
Victims of the Holocaust in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Germans expelled from Poland in 1948
German diaspora
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The German diaspora consists of German people and their descendants living outside of Central Europe. The term is used in particular to refer to the aspects of migration of German speakers from Centra
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…this time, the German population grew considerably, and many emigrated to other countries (mainly North America), contributing to the growth of the German diaspora. Competition for colonies between the Great Powers contributed to the outbreak of World War I, in which the German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires…
Ethnic Germans in Hungary and parts of adjacent Austrian territories, census 1890
German minority in Poland, 1925
German cemetery in Campo de Ourique
Examples of German language signage in Namibia