Germany
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Germany is a modern European nation (formally Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or Federal Republic of Germany) whose recorded ethnic, territorial, and political history reaches back to the 1st century BCE.
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- And now it's time for me to meet Europe's 'cuddly teddybears'... the Germans. Germany as a country has only been in existence for just over a hundred years. But in that time they've started two world wars, they've been brought on the brink of starvation two times, and they've invaded almost all of their neighbours.
- Jeremy Clarkson, "Top Gear: Jeremy Meets the Neighbours".
- Death is a Master from Germany.
- Original (German): Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland.
- Paul Celan, Todesfuge (1948).
- Germany, Germany above everything, above everything in the world!
- Original (German): Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt!
- August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Deutschlandlied (1841).
- Thinking of Germany in the night robs me of my sleep.
- Original (German): Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht, dann bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht.
- Heinrich Heine, Nachtgedanken (1843).
- The Satan of the Italian and English poets may be more poetic; but the German Satan is more satanic; and in this respect one could say, the Satan is a German invention.
- Original (German): Der Satan der italienischen und englischen Dichter mag poetischer sein; aber der deutsche Satan ist satanischer; und insofern könnte man sagen, der Satan sei eine deutsche Erfindung.
- Friedrich Schlegel, Athenäumsfragmente 379
- Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.
- Original (German): Deutschland ist eine anatomische Merkwürdigkeit: Es schreibt mit der Linken und tut mit der Rechten.
- Kurt Tucholsky, Schnipsel, in Die Weltbühne, 3 February 1931, p. 185
