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Germany's soccer team meets Argentina Saturday in a much-anticipated World Cup quarterfinal match, and fans are fired up. But fervent flag-waving and other displays of nationalism are not sitting ...
For two weeks, all over the country, German flags fluttered on cars, on balconies, and in allotment gardens. They were a visible expression of cheerful patriotism, and they lasted from the German ...
The dual German/English-language map is based on the German borders of 1937 and identifies which Allied country occupied which areas in 1945. Not only is this a historically significant map, it is ...
Dennis Schroder led Germany to a world title. Now the Nets guard will lead his homeland in another way, as their first black Olympic flag bearer.
Germany's Patriotism Problem Just Don't Fly the Flag Over six decades after the end of World War II, Germans still have a pathological fear of patriotism. Flying the flag is still a faux pas.
However, when Germany's national team was set up in 1899, they opted to promote the white and black colours seen on the flag of Prussia, which was eventually dissolved in the early 20th century.
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