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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Germany
German history in the Middle Ages was strongly influenced by two opposing principles: universalism and individualism.
Charlemagne's German policy, therefore, was not a mere brute conquest, but a union which was to be strengthened by the ties of morality and culture to be created by the Christian religion.
The partial failure of Charles determined the future development of the empire, the basis of which was laid down in the recess of the Imperial Diet of 1555.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06484b.htm   (20891 words)

  
 The development of the radical right-wing parties in Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
At the end of April the German Peoples Union (DVU) had won a surprising 12.9 percent in state elections in the east German state of Saxony Anhalt and entered the local parliament with a total of 16 deputies.
The German Peoples Party (DVU), which in the past recorded spectacular gains, is more of a tightly organised enterprise than a party, controlled from the party and publishing centre of the multimillionaire Gerhard Frey.
The founder of the Republicans, Schoenhuber, stood as the principal candidate for the DVU in Bavaria, and the head of the DVU slate in the eastern state of Saxony was a former functionary of the Republicans.
www.wsws.org /news/1998/oct1998/germ-o17.shtml   (1499 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Gustav Stresemann
The term German Empire commonly refers to Germany, from its consolidation as a unified nation-state on January 18, 1871, until the abdication of Kaiser (Emperor) Wilhelm II on November 9, 1918.
The German Democratic Party, or Deutsche Demokratische Partei (DDP), was founded by leaders of the former Progressive Peoples Party (Fortschrittliche Volkspartei) and the left wing of the National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei) in the early days of the Weimar Republic.
The German Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei or merely Zentrum), often called the Catholic Centre Party, was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gustav-Stresemann   (3299 words)

  
 The Nazi Party (NSDAP)
The German Army was worried that it was a left-wing revolutionary group and sent Adolf Hitler, one of its education officers, to spy on the organization.
Adolf Hitler knew that the growth in the party was mainly due to his skills as an orator and in the autumn of 1921 he challenged Anton Drexler for the leadership of the party.
The German Social Democrat Party was the largest party in the Reichstag, it did not have a majority over all the other parties, and the SPD leader, Hermann Mueller, had to rely on the support of others to rule Germany.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/nsdap.html   (3790 words)

  
 Pakistan Peoples Party
According to jurists, the trial lost its credibility not only because of the patent bias and partial conduct of the proceedings but also because the procedures adopted by the courts were themselves suspect.
The apprehensions of the petitioner about the partiality of Justice Mushtaq Hussain were substantiated when the latter transferred the incomplete challan from the lower court to the High Court on the same day when Mr.
Allegations of bias and partiality against the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court (the presiding judge) were repeated in the Supreme court while preferring an appeal there, but they were dismissed out of hand.
www.ppp.org.pk /zab/tale.htm   (2006 words)

  
 German National People's Party (DNVP)
The German National People's Party (DNVP) was formed in 1919.
Mainly funded by the wealthy industrialist, Hugo Stinnes, this right-wing party opposed the Versailles Treaty, supported the restoration of the monarchy and was critical of the power of the trade unions.
Led by the wealthy newspaper magnate, Alfred Hugenberg, the DNVP won 66 seats in the Reichstag in the 1920 General Election.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERdnvp.htm   (166 words)

  
 Pakistan Peoples Party
The other parties and cliques in West Pakistan were equally irresponsible in flirting with the military and the Awami League, interested only in their own short-term gain.
Whereas national consolidation was the main goal of the people of Pakistan, the Opposition parties sought to exploit provincialism, parochialism and sectarianism for their own ends.
Despite the financial constraints, it is a matter of considerable satisfaction for the Party to record that as a result of the wide-ranging measures instituted by its Government during the last five years it has been able to give the Armed Forces and the nation a credible defence capability.
www.ppp.org.pk /manifesto/1977.html   (8029 words)

  
 Where is the German Party of Democratic Socialism going?
A decisive element in the development of these parties is that both the SPD and the Greens fully acknowledge as legitimate the existing relations of power and ownership.
Political oppression in the GDR served to enforce the interests of a privileged layer in the state and party, which reacted to each problem with the most narrow bureaucratic means, such as the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and prohibitions on travel.
Under conditions where the entire party system is in a state of great flux, and the old Volksparteien (peoples parties) are openly breaking apart, the development of the PDS can assume very different forms.
www.wsws.org /articles/1999/dec1999/pds-d06_prn.shtml   (5236 words)

  
 Nazi Party (NSDAP)
In the programme the party refused to accept the terms of the Versailles Treaty and called for the reunification of all German people.
It is based on the old officers of the Prussian Army migrated to Bavaria and using the weakness of the peasant government in Munich to rally the impoverished middle classes and rentiers, ruined by the inflation, round the Pan-German Nationalist and anti-French flag.
The German people were asked to vote whether they approved the consolidation of the offices of President and Chancellor in a single Leader-Chancellor personified by Adolf Hitler.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERnazi.htm   (5951 words)

  
 Heilig
German enterprises got as much support as they wanted from the United States, where bankers were at a loss to know what to do with the gigantic amounts of money that had been accumulated during the war.
In countries where conscription is in force, the state of health of the people is reliably shown by the proportion of those fit for military service, which on the small farms exceeded that of the people working on the large estates by no less than 150 per cent.
I pointed to the fact that in Germany 7,500,000 people were engaged in working on the smaller farms and only 2,500,000 on the large estates though the two parts of the cultivated land were equal in extent.
history.hanover.edu /courses/excerpts/111heil.html   (5790 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: imt/nca/nca-06/nca-06-3469-ps-01   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I did not belong to any party, after I had resigned in 1923 from the German National Peoples Party [Deutschnationale Volkspartei] in which I had been a member for hardly a half year.
Alfred Hugenberg was a member of the German National Assembly and of the Reichstag from 1920 until after the seizure of power in 1933.
He was chairman of the executive committee of the German National Peoples Party [Deutschnationale Volkspartei] from 1928 until its dissolution in 1933.
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 Propaganda Postcards of the Great War (World War 1)- "Anschluß" denied
Gustav Stresemann, one of the most distinguished leaders of the National Liberal Party in the pre-war Reichstag, and soon to be leader of the newly formed German Peoples Party was one such.
The German government and representatives of the people responded formally and with equal vigor to the Austrian proposal early in February 1919.
Ebert was chairman of the Council of Peoples Representatives (the Republican Provisional Government), and the National Assembly had been elected and convened to determine the form of the new Republican Germany.
www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com /anschluss.html   (1831 words)

  
 German nazi party
This was a propaganda arm of the party that become known for its strong-arm tactics of street brawling and terror.
The party shifted its targets to rural and small town areas and fuelled anti-Semitism by calling for expropriation of Jewish agricultural property and by condemning large Jewish department stores.
Throughout Europe, the conquered peoples, especially Slavs and Jews, were executed or forced to slaved labor in German war factories, while their countries were drained of food and raw materials.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/3012/german_outline.htm   (621 words)

  
 Library of Economics and Liberty: Biographies in Brief
Although his lack of understanding of markets and marginal analysis led to his being ostracized by his contemporary academic economics circles, his thoughtful critique of the justifications of imperialism and his work taking the topic back to first principles stands today as an example of respect for all peoples throughout the world.
He was a member of the Fabian Society, and although he wrote for several socialist journals, he was an independent thinker who argued that capitalist goals had been perverted by special interests and misdirected governments.
German historian who wrote in favor of protective tariffs and trade retaliations between industrial nations, even if they maintain free trade within each country.
www.econlib.org /library/briefbios.html   (3890 words)

  
 Jewish History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Assigned the British government the Mandate over Palestine, directing her to establish a national home for the Jewish people as presented in the Balfour Declaration.
The Jewish German foreign minister was assassinated by anti-Semitic nationalists who blamed Germany's defeat in World War I on the Jews.
Confirmed the Palestine Mandate, citing the Balfour Declaration in the preamble and recognizing "the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine".
www.jewishhistory.org.il /1920.htm   (3630 words)

  
 Regnum Crucis
The Rome-based RAI Radio Uno Network in Italian at 1100 GMT on 6 April reports that the seven people suspected of involvement in planned terrorist attacks in Bologna and Milan are North African Islamists said to be linked to the radical Algerian Islamist movement, the Salafi Group Call and Combat (GSPC).
As to the issue of conflation, I would note that one of the biggests problems that people attempting to classify the insurgency have run into is that there is a great deal of back-and-forth membership between various groups, including those where membership would strike many analysts as mutually exclusive.
I would note that the German journalist who originally reported this information is now the possible subject of criminal prosecution by the German authorities.
www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com   (7030 words)

  
 Convicted arms dealer funnels aid from Europe's far right to Iraq Austrian, German neo-Nazi groups are fans of Hussein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Among those reportedly spearheading the effort to funnel aid to Iraq is Germany's National Democratic Party, which openly woos skinheads and sponsors annual protests marking the 1987 death in prison of Hitler deputy Rudolf Hess that often wind up in neo-Nazi violence.
Its owner is Bavarian millionaire publisher Gerhard Frey, leader of the German Peoples Party (DVU), a group accused of racism and anti-Semitism that won 13 percent of the 1998 vote in the eastern state of Saxony Anhalt.
According to Format, Jebara also was questioned in the court in connection with the reported participation of German firms in the construction of chemical weapon plants at Iraq's heavily guarded Samarra industrial complex.
www.kurdmedia.com /reports.asp?id=1483   (1190 words)

  
 The Democratic Party
And the people DYING in Iraq are NOT the friggin' chickenhawks that pushed that godawful occupation.
People vote for Democrats because they believe that the Democrats will ensure that the less fortunate are cared for, that civil rights are maintained and that we get entangled in less wars.
The people that attend expend so many resources in attending that when they realize they were left mostly on the sidelines of the ANSWER agenda, they can't make another attempt because their resources are expended.
www.democrats.org /a/2005/09/open_thread_87.php   (13948 words)

  
 SE-GAG Info - National Social White Peoples Party
National Socialism is a world view for White people, based on the ideas and concepts Of the German racial nationalist philosopher and statesman Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).
We are only interested in protecting our own people against extinction, a fate all too likely it nothing is done about present conditions in America.
In the United States and Canada, National Socialism is represented by the NATIONAL socialist WHITE: PEOPLE'S PARTY, which was originally founded by George Lincoln Rockwell in 1967 and reconstituted in 1994.
www.segag.org /hateinfo/frnswpp.html   (378 words)

  
 Martin Luther's Nazi Legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Martin Luther the German [ born 1483 and died in 1546 ], published in 1543
Nazi Party were banned in Germany after the 14th of July, 1933.
The German Catholics are found mostly in the southern,
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 Lawyers and Business Executives in the News™
By opposing stem cell research, and by further dividing people based upon religion, Senator Brownback is deeply out of touch with the very spirit of America.
In an April 5th story in the Associated Press (ap.org) there is an overview about how President Bush urged lawmakers on Wednesday to expand health savings accounts even though congressional Republicans say that is unlikely in an election year.
The accounts allow people to set aside money, tax-free, to pay their health costs.
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 Midterm Study Questions and Terms
How did Adolf Hitler stabilize the German economy and at what cost?
How much is German popular support responsible for Hitler's assumption of power?
To what extent did the NSDAP's racism/anti-Semitism win German votes?
www.wpunj.edu /~history/odonn/hist340/finex.htm   (153 words)

  
 The History Ring
A story of events related to the loss of two great warships, and the awful tradgedy of the human disaster.
The experiences of an anti-tank gunner in the blocking of the advance of the German army on Dunkirk during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Forces, and his eventual capture.
State Of Unions, Inaugural Addresses, Party Acceptance Speeches and much more.
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 KurdishMedia.com Editorial - Kurd and Kurdistan issue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Please help stop the ongoing brutality against the Kurdish people in Syria
Only the Kurdish people can decide whether to stay as a part of Iraq or not
How are the PUK and KDP to unite Iraq when they can’t even unite their administrations?
www.kurdmedia.com /editorial.asp?id=1483   (1253 words)

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