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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
Germanic peoples
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The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who lived in Northern Europe during Classical antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In modern scholarship, they typically include the Roman-era Germani who lived
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…the first author known to have used the geographical term Germania, and to define it's western boundary as the Rhine. He emphasized that the Germani (Germanic peoples) east of the river were different to Gauls, and dangerous to Rome. In contrast, archaeological evidence shows that at the time of Caesar's invasion…
Roman bronze statuette dated to the late 1st century – early 2nd century CE, representing a Germanic man with his hair in a Suebian knot
The inscription on the Negau helmet B, carved in the Etruscan alphabet during the 3rd–2nd c. BCE, is generally regarded as Proto-Germanic.
Replica of an altar for the Matrons of Vacallina (Matronae Vacallinehae) from Mechernich-Weyer, Germany
The Roman province of Germania, in existence from 7 BCE to 9 CE. The dotted line represents the Limes Germanicus, the fortified border constructed following the final withdrawal of Roman forces from Germania.