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D as in "Dora" — or "David"? The Nazis had eliminated Jewish names from the German spelling alphabet. The names are to return, at least symbolically.
Alphabet, according to New York Times, has encountered an issue with german automaker BMW, which owns a fleet services company with the same name and the domain Alphabet.com.
In German passports, names appear in uppercase, meaning that until now, someone with the surname Großmann has had to put up with the humiliation of being confused with a Grossmann.
Our large German population, eager to show its patriotism as America threw itself into the Great War, threw everything German down the Memory Hole—minus its beer, because even a frenzy has limits. But ...
Nazis decided to get rid of Hebrew first names from this alphabet during the Second World War out of antisemitism.
Germany will be restoring the phonetic alphabet to include Jewish names that the Nazi regime removed from the tool, according to Gruntstuff.
But, last Monday, an addition to the German alphabet emerged blinking into the daylight after a campaign lasting 130 years - to a hail of indifference.
The title is a bit misleading in German writer-director Nicolette Krebitz’s offbeat romantic comedy “AEIOU — A Quick Alphabet of Love.” Despite its promise of deeper meaning attached to ...
The Alphabet Stand-up comedian Henning Wehn takes over a German class and highlights the importance of the four additional German letters in the alphabet, the ß, ä, ü and ö.