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German Culture: Famous Germans
Brief biographical profiles of famous Germans recognized worldwide in the arts, military, movies, politics, sciences, and sports.
Indiana University
Indiana University: German Americans and Their Contributions to Us Culture
This site outlines two well-organized lesson plans for teaching about German culture in the United States. Also includes extra credit ideas.
Other
German Culture: Baron Von Steuben
This site from German Culture.com provides a description of techniques used by General von Steuben to create discipline in the Colonial Army.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: German 3, Semester 1: Die Ferien
A learning module through which students learn German words and phrases used to discuss German history and culture while learning about the Romantic Road.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon Culture
This lesson focuses on the Anglo-Saxon culture including how the pagen Germanic tribes were converted to Christianity by St. Augustine, creating the first English bishopric in Canterbury. It offers links to an overview of Anglo- Saxon...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Germans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Germans. Gives basic facts about location, language, folklore, foods, social customs, family life, education, religion, pastimes, societal challenges, etc. (Note: Content...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Germans
Learn about the culture of the German people living in Russia. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Siberian Germans
Learn about the culture of the Siberian German people of Russia. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Other
German Culture: Wedding Traditions From Germany
An overview of the traditions and unique celebrations associated with weddings in Germany.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Fipa
The Fipa are a Bantu-speaking people of southwestern Tanzania in East-Central Africa. The name "Fipa" appears to have been bestowed on them by nineteenth-century traders and means "people of the escarpment." It was later adopted by...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: German Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of German Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Years of Change
Fictional diary excerpts, photos, and videos tell the story of German reunification from May 6, 1989, to Oct. 3, 1991.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Das Saarland Teil Ii
Photographic exhibition follows the history of the birth of the Saarland as a German federal state almost one hundred years ago and its development since then.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: 50 Years of the Elysee Treaty 50 Years of the Fgyo
50 years of the Elysee Treaty and the Franco-German Youth Office are portrayed in this photographic exhibit.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: The Siege of Leningrad
A pictorial account of the Siege of Leningrad by the German Army during World War II.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Remember
Online multimedia exhibit represents three sides to the World War II tragedy: the Nazi perpetrator, the victim of the Nazis, and the Soviet liberator. Find out what could have happened if German Nazism had won.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: 14 June 1940
The first transport of 728 Poles, political prisoners, was brought to the German Nazi Auschwitz camp from the Tarnow prison.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Ashkenazim
Learn about the culture of the Ashkenazim of Russia. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Other
Facts About Germany
This site from Germany provides up-to-date information on the Federal Republic of Germany. Content covers a wide range of topics, including the people, government, social life, culture, sports, foreign policy, and economy.
Other
Huayu World: Global Chinese Language and Culture Center
Good resource for exploring Chinese culture and language. Learn about Taiwanese lantern riddles, Chinese folklore, clothing, poetry and fables, papercutting, Chinese New Year, and Chinese festival and every-day cooking. Multimedia makes...
Goethe-Institut
German Design and Fashion From Goethe Institut
The Goethe-Institut provides a wonderful resource leading to many German design and fashion sites on the web. Sites include current national topics in German design and fashion, home and furniture designs from Germany, German designs of...
Then Again
Then Again: Web Chron: The Germanic Tribes
Gives information on the main Germanic tribes of the third and fourth centuries: the Franks, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Burgundians, Vandals and Lombards.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Years of Change
A visual chronology of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, in East Germany from diary excerpts, historical snippets, and photographs. The German Reunification period ran from 1989-1991.
United Nations
Unesco: Longobards in Italy: Places of Power (568 774 Ad)
The Longoboards buildings reflect the accomplishments of the Lombards, a Germanic culture originally from northern Europe. These early medieval buildings are located across the Italian Peninsula and date from the 6th to 8th centuries....