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  Crown of Wilhelm II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Crown of Wilhelm II, also known as the Hohenzollern Crown, is the 1888 crown made for Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in his role as King of Prussia.
Though not a German state crown (the German Empire had no state regalia) it was sometimes treated as such.
To protect it from theft and destruction, during the Second World War it was hidden in a wall in the crypt of a church.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crown_of_Wilhelm_II   (207 words)

  
 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.
This caused a constant state of unrest among the reigning princes and the nobles of the empire in south-western Germany.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06484b.htm   (20891 words)

  
 Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Being predominantly a northern and eastern German state, Prussia had a large Protestant majority, although there were substantial Roman Catholic populations in the Rhineland, while a number of districts in Posen, Silesia, West Prussia, and the Warmia and Masuria regions of East Prussia had populations of predominantly Catholic Poles.
Despite its overwhelmingly German character, Prussia's annexations of Polish territory in the late 18th century brought with them a large Polish population that resisted German occupation, and in several areas was the majority of the population, as for example in the Provinz Posen (62% Polish, 38% German).
In 1934 the Nazi regime abolished the autonomy of all the German states.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prussia   (2363 words)

  
 Ancestral ROLL Family - German, Russian, and ROLL Family Heraldry
The lion is crowned, to symbolise the special rights of the Princes of the Pfalz as chairman of the council that decided on the appointment of the new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
The district historically belonged to the Pfalz and the State of Speyer.
In the canton an emblem of Khersons'ka province.
www.rollintl.com /roll/grcoat.htm   (5704 words)

  
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And the inference from the Militarist theory that the States which at present count for nothing as military Powers necessarily count for nothing at all is absurd on the face of it.
Those Germans who took but an instant to kill had taken the travail of a woman for three-quarters of a year to breed, and eighteen years to ripen for the slaughter.
The southern Germans, the, friendliest, most easy-going people in the world (as far as I know the world) dislike the Prussians far more heartily than we do; but they know that they are respected and strong and big as part of United Germany, and that they were weak and despised and petty as separate kingdoms.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/3/6/3/13635/13635-8.txt   (13875 words)

  
 Berlin (Germany)
The service flag, in the size of 15 × 25 cm, is used by the president of the revenue court, the presidents of the supreme courts, the directors of the Senate, the mayors of the city's districts and the president of the police.
The state flag is the same as the civil flag, but shows the whole arms instead of the bear alone.
Since 1990 the German state ensign is used as such and the Berlin state flag is used as a jack on state vessels — as usual in other Länder.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-be.html   (724 words)

  
 Trenches on the Web - Special: Wartime Changes to the German Field Uniform 1914-1916
The growth of the German Army from 1870 to 1914, was a quartermaster's nightmare in supply for all the different types of helmets and uniforms for all the various German regiments and branches of service.
Until 1910, each German state had its own particular uniform color, belt buckle motto, and a bewildering variety of badges, armbands, and helmet plates so that each particular Regiment had some distinctive or unique characteristic to commemorate some past battle or other distinction bestowed upon it.
All of the soldiers are wearing the feldmütze with the camouflage strip, the state colors of the lower button was fl, red, fl..
www.worldwar1.com /sfgeruni.htm   (1767 words)

  
 1898 Makers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The bayonet was marked on the spine of the blade just before the handle with a crown over the State's Monarch, over the two digit date for the year produced, over an inspection stamp (small crown over gothic letter).
has a larger crown over a 'W' (for King Wilhelm of Prussia), over a '07' for 1907, over a smaller crown over a gothic letter 'D' (this is a typical imperial german inspector's proof mark showing the blade (in this case) meet all specifications).
They were originally painted fl and had the german proof mark (crown over gothic letter) on the frog stud and/or on the top of the scabbard throat.
www.bayonetsonline.com /1898_makers.htm   (706 words)

  
 Hungary (08/05)
The unicameral, 386-member National Assembly is the highest organ of state authority and initiates and approves legislation sponsored by the prime minister.
The United States has become Hungary's sixth-largest export market, while Hungary is ranked as the 72d largest export market for the United States.
U.S. citizens who are long-term visitors or traveling in dangerous areas are encouraged to register their travel via the State Department’s travel registration web site at https://travelregistration.state.gov or at the Consular section of the U.S. embassy upon arrival in a country by filling out a short form and sending in a copy of their passports.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/26566.htm   (4708 words)

  
 Grossdeutschland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
One week later they passed a proviso declaring that all German territory would be joined in the new nation, but any state with non-German possessions, like Austria, would be accepted as part of the new Germany only by abandoning its non-German lands or by holding them exclusively through a personal union in the crown.
The Danish violation of international law in annexing the German state of Holstein caused Germans generally to view this as a matter a national honor.
In the eyes of the international community Germans greatly suffered for what seem to outsiders as annexation of Danes, Poles a nd Czechs into a "Grossdeutschland,"but for Germans was no more than a very fuzzy protection of the border areas of the old German Confederation merged with the new national principle of protecting Germans.
www.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/dh/grosse.htm   (976 words)

  
 Ostalgia: East German Nostalgia and Memorabilia
Egon Krenz, the last GDR (East German) state and party chief, is a free man after barely four years confinement.
The SED Politburo member, the "crown prince" Erich Honeckers, was sentenced 25 August 1997 by the Berlin State Court for homicide to six years and six months, and has been serving time since 13 January 2000.
He sees himself as a victim of German "winner's justice." From Krenz' point of view, he was not convicted of being jointly responsible for the shootings at the Wall, but of being a representative of the GDR.
www.lermanet.com /cisar/germany/030919.htm   (879 words)

  
 ethnic costumes: German tracht lederhosen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
America's German immigrants helped shape the nation's music appreciation, the celebration of Christmas, the striving for the ideal, and indeed the entire culture.
German immigration to America increased significantly in the mid-19th Century.
German American cultural groups often sponsor performances of German boys and children choirs.
histclo.com /style/ethnic/ethnicge.html   (1650 words)

  
 the Holy Roman Empire
The status of State of the Empire was originally attached to a particular land, and was a right of the owner or ruler of that land.
After qualification and cooptation, the quality of State of the Empire was retained, whether or not the cooptation was followed by a formal admission, whether or not the seat was taken or the vote exercised.
The emperor was crowned by either the archbishop of Mainz or that of Trier, depending on the diocese in which the ceremony took place (in 1742, the archbishop of Cologne, brother of Emperor Karl VII, officiated with the consent of the archbishop of Mainz).
www.heraldica.org /topics/national/hre.htm   (11303 words)

  
 GI -- World War II Commemoration
The two leaders stated that no territorial changes should be made contrary to the wishes of the inhabitants of the territories involved, and they recognized the right of people to choose their own forms of government.
The United States reaction to this campaign, as well as to the occupation of northern Indochina and the conclusion of the Tripartite Pact, was to expand its aid to China.
The German invasion of the USSR in June gave the Japanese more certain assurance than the neutrality pact that Matsuoka had concluded in Moscow on April 13 that Japan could advance toward the south without concern for the possibility of Soviet action in Manchuria.
gi.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_14.html   (10664 words)

  
 Outline of American Literature - Chapter I
Between 1630 and 1690, there were as many university graduates in the northeastern section of the United States, known as New England, as in the mother country -- an astounding fact when one considers that most educated people of the time were aristocrats who were unwilling to risk their lives in wilderness conditions.
Robert Beverley, another wealthy planter and author of The History and Present State of Virginia (1705, 1722) records the history of the Virginia colony in a humane and vigorous style.
The fl American poet Jupiter Hammon, a slave on Long Island, New York, is remembered for his religious poems as well as for An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York (1787), in which he advocated freeing children of slaves instead of condemning them to hereditary slavery.
usinfo.state.gov /products/pubs/oal/lit1.htm   (5351 words)

  
 PageH2.html
He was one of the "champions" of the Swabian (German) Emperor Frederick I of the House of Hohenstaufen, also, known as Barbarossa (Redbeard) who had led his warriors into what was to be known as the Third Crusades.
The fall of the Holy Roman Empire by the hands of Napoleon changed the structure of the German states....
The King of Prussia's leadership against France gave him new power and the German states crowned the King of Prussia as Wilhelm I, Emperor (Kaiser) of Germany (Deutschland) in the Great Halls of Versailles in France.
www.remmick.org /Remmick.German.Facts/PageH2.html   (899 words)

  
 US Department Of State Post Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
All three branches of government are influenced to varying degrees by leaders of the Ba'th Party, which has ruled the country since 1963,and whose primacy in state institutions and the Parliament is mandated by the Constitution.
The state media optimistically forecasts a 3.5% - 3.7% growth rate for 2003, although outside economic observers put the figure closer to 0% due to the interruption in trade with Iraq as well as the cut off in the flow of discounted Iraqi crude.
The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges and Commission on International Trans-Regional Accreditation School transcripts from DCS serve as a basis for enrollment in U.S. schools.
foia.state.gov /MMS/postrpt/pr_view_all.asp?CntryID=142   (12109 words)

  
 RELIGION-GERMANY: Committee for Pagan Fun Criticises Catholic 'Invasion'
The German city of Cologne has been flooded this week by hundreds of thousands of young Roman Catholics from all over the world, who have occupied just about every public space, to take part in the World Youth Day activities that began on Tuesday and included a visit by Pope Benedict XVI.
It also criticises the German state's financial support for the annual Catholic youth gathering, which was created in 1985 by late John Paul II.
The Catholic Church lost 61,000 members in the state in 2003, almost one percent of the total number of faithful - a tendency also seen in the rest of the country.
www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=29969   (989 words)

  
 Munich -- Speech of September 12, 1923
It was never intended to be a State for the German people, but a feeding ground, as pleasant and as rich a feeding-ground as possible.
There never was any thought of giving to the German people a free State: the object was to provide a mob of the lowest scoundrels with an obliging object for their exploitation.
This Revolution has dishonored the old heroes on whom the whole earth had looked with wonder; it allowed the scum of the streets to tear off their decorations and to hurl into the mire all that was sacred to the heroes of the front line.
www.hitler.org /speeches/09-12-23.html   (965 words)

  
 FAQ: Deutschland (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The German kingdoms, grandduchies, duchies and various principalities were loosely united by various federations with no capital of Germany.
A17: Military records: In 1867 the armies of all but four German states were integrated into the armies of Prussia.
From that time on, soldiers of any German state (except Bayern, Sachsen, Baden, Wuerttemberg) were only recorded in the military records of Prussia.
www.mmhs.org /faq/faqgerm.htm   (3054 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The States from which this literature emanated were cities, whose example fostered the development of town life and economy.
They were also highly centralized States, with the liveliest national spirit; and their history and ideas could not but promote the development of the modern State and of national unity, as opposed to the mediaeval division of each nation into innumerable petty groups and governments.
The term `cameralistic,' which makes a great figure in early German economics, originated (as Roscher mentions in another work) in the office or chamber (Cammer), which in each German State was charged with the supervision and administration of the Crown revenues.
socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/leslie/leslie04.html   (2671 words)

  
 Maan's Bayonet Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1917, it was mandated that all sawback bayonets have their sawbacks removed (or have them used behind the lines).
Otherwise, there were threats by the Allies that any german found with a sawback bayonet would be tortured or suffer dearly
Crown over "W" for King Wilhelm II, 1888-1918
www.wideopenwest.com /~csmaan/998_05_1.html   (177 words)

  
 September 12, 1923
The Republic was founded to be a milk-cow for its founders - for the whole parliamentary gang.
Seventeen million Germans are in misery under foreign rule.
They have their international State: today international finance is king....
www.adolfhitler.ws /lib/speeches/text/230912.html   (965 words)

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