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Germany Definition

Ger·many (jʉr′mə nē)

pl. -·nys, -·nies

country in NC Europe, on the North & Baltic seas; since reunification in 1990, comprising 16 states: formerly divided (1945) into four zones of occupation, administered respectively by France, Britain, the U.S., & the U.S.S.R., and partitioned (1949-90) into the Federal Republic of Germany, made up of the three western zones (British, French, & U.S.), also called West Germany; and the German Democratic Republic, comprising the eastern (U.S.S.R.) zone, also called East Germany: 137,822 sq mi (356,959 sq km); pop. 80,975,000; cap. Berlin: official name Federal Republic of Germany

Etymology: L Germania

Germany Synonyms

Germany

n.

German nation, Deutschland, Deutsches Reich (both German), Allemagne (French), German Reich, German people, West Germany, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD (both German), East Germany, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR (both German), Axis power, Third Reich, German Empire, Nazi state, Weimar Republic.

Germany Quotes

Communism fits Germany as a saddle fits a cow.

—Stalin,Joseph originally Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

This morning, the British ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that, unless we heard from them by11o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

—Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville

   In1914, Europe had arrived at a point at which every country except Germany was afraid of the present, and Germany was afraid of the future.

—Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount

My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.Go home and have a nice, quiet sleep. See also Disraeli 277:85.

—Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville

We are fighting in the quarrel of civilization against barbarism, of liberty against tyranny.Germany has become a menace to the whole world. She is the most dangerous enemy of liberty now existing.

—Roosevelt,Theodore

En France, on e¤  tudie les hommes; en Allemagne, les livres. In France, they study men; in Germany, books.

—Stae«  l, Germaine Necker, Baronne de

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair