Portal talk:Germany/Did you know
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Recent main page DYKs containing the word "German"
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- ... that Peter Demetz, who taught German literature at Yale University from 1956 to 1991, was born in Prague where he was persecuted under the Nazis and escaped the Communist regime in 1949?
- ... that Thomas Mann insisted on omitting a passage on homoeroticism in the English translation of his work "On the German Republic"?
- ... that German factory worker Julius Welschof now plays in the National Football League?
- ... that if the Devizes Plot had been successful, 7,000 German prisoners of war would have escaped and attacked RAF Yatesbury?
- ... that over the course of several decades, the missionaries of New Zealand's German Mission House failed to convert a single person?
- ... that Soviet prisoners of war were the second-largest group of victims of Nazi mass killing?
- ... that Heike Heubach became the first deaf member of the German Bundestag?