- Eichmann, the eldest of five children, was born in 1906 to a Calvinist family in Solingen, Germany.
- Gottfried Leibniz was born on July 1 [OS: June 21], 1646, in Leipzig, Saxony, to Friedrich Leibniz (1597–1652) and Catharina Schmuck (1621–1664).
- Herschel was born in the Electorate of Hanover in Germany, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, one of ten children of Isaak Herschel and his wife, Anna Ilse Moritzen, of German Lutheran ancestry.
- August Valentine Kautz was born in Germany on January 5, 1828.
- Fannie Markbreit was born in Baden-Baden, Germany in 1849, having the same national origin as August V. Kautz, but 21 years younger than him.
- August Valentine Kautz was born January 5, 1828 at Ispringen, Baden, Germany, the son of George and Doratha Lawing Kautz.
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- World Report 2024: Germany (hrw.org)
Germany’s rights record in 2023 was marked by a large increase in far-right motivated demonstrations as well as a rise in attacks against migrants, Jews, Muslims, Sinti, Roma, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, often constituting hate crimes.
- Norm Macdonald on Germany (YouTube)
Norm Macdonald on David Letterman’s last episode of The Late Show in 2015. It has been said that this is Norm’s best joke by fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
- German BND-NSA Inquiry Exhibits (wikileaks.org)
Today, 1 December 2016, WikiLeaks releases 90 gigabytes of information relating to the German parliamentary inquiry into the surveillance activities of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) and its cooperation with the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA).
- Bundestag Inquiry into BND and NSA (wikileaks.org)
Ten months of transcripts from the ongoing German Parliamentary inquire into NSA activities in Germany.
- Germany (Wikipedia)
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. Its 16 constituent states are bordered by Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation’s capital and most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr.
