vonlettowvorbeck wrote:
Thus I wil rephrase the remark to: .... German is the largest language of civilized Europe.
I'm starting to understand why you were reported for racism.
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vonlettowvorbeck wrote:
Thus I wil rephrase the remark to: .... German is the largest language of civilized Europe.
Komrade Khrushchev wrote:
I'm starting to understand why you were reported for racism.vonlettowvorbeck wrote:
Thus I wil rephrase the remark to: .... German is the largest language of civilized Europe.
Komrade Khrushchev wrote:
I'm starting to understand why you were reported for racism.
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The post was edited 1 time, last by K.Rokossovski ().
Taffyta Muttonfudge wrote:
Approx. russian speakers in europe:
European russia has 109.5M population
Belarus: 9M
Transnistria: 0.5M
total: 119M
German speakers:
Germany: 83M
Austria: 9M
Others (switzerland/belgium/lux./czech regional) 10M (generous)
total: 102M
Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Russia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria
K.Rokossovski wrote:
... and no one wanted to listen to German composers or read German writers for quite a while.
freezy wrote:
Everyone at Bytro understands English (requirement to be hired). Not everyone at Bytro understands German. So no need to translate texts in here "for us". So yes, official forum language in the EN forums is EN. We have other language subforums.
K.Rokossovski wrote:
Probably the price for losing a war. Before the war, many German speakers lived in Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Baltic states, and other places. The cultural influence of Germany in places like the Netherlands and Yugoslavia was also bigger than either English or French. After the war, all of that was gone; the Volksdeutsche had all been deported to the core nation, and no one wanted to listen to German composers or read German writers for quite a while.
Phillip Bosley wrote:
Quite right. Before the war, there were sizeable German populations in Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Ukraine, Italy, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the Low Countries, and probably more I’m forgetting.K.Rokossovski wrote:
Probably the price for losing a war. Before the war, many German speakers lived in Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Baltic states, and other places. The cultural influence of Germany in places like the Netherlands and Yugoslavia was also bigger than either English or French. After the war, all of that was gone; the Volksdeutsche had all been deported to the core nation, and no one wanted to listen to German composers or read German writers for quite a while.
Now, except for Austria and some small German-speaking communities in Belgium and Switzerland, these groups no longer exist.
Why? Mostly due to the fear factor, in post-WW2 Europe most countries (especially the ones that fell under communist control) used propaganda to instill anti-German sentiment throughout the country, leading to suspicion and violence against German communities. Naturally, most Germans felt unsafe and fled to (West) Germany, and most of the Germans in tightly controlled communist countries left soon after the iron curtain fell in ‘92.
MarioLazzaratti wrote:
It's all because of Communism.
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