Germany

[Dragonair]

I see Germany as a nation with some northern elements, but as central mostly.

[Arminius]

What's the purpose of this thread? A geography lesson for Americans or what?

In other words, what specific aspects are you refering to? People, culture, language, location... Since you said Germany, I voted on location. My opinion is different if you'd say culture or language, for instance.

[Dragonair]

What's the purpose of this thread? A geography lesson for Americans or what?

In other words, what specific aspects are you refering to? People, culture, language, location... Since you said Germany, I voted on location. My opinion is different if you'd say culture or language, for instance.
Some sort of mixture of all.

[Jake Featherston]

I see Germany as a nation with some northern elements, but as central mostly.

That's the option for which I voted.

[Macrobius]

What's the purpose of this thread? A geography lesson for Americans or what?

Anti-Germanism showed up as a meme among Paleoconservatives about a year or so ago. I first noticed it in some columns by Clyde Wilson. I'm not sure exactly what it is about, but the participation of Germans in the War of Secession on the side of the Union was certainly part of it. On the opposing side, the Neo-Conservatives of the 'Anglo-Sphere' school enlist them for the New Imperium. :) Not to mention the recurring Leftist meme of Germany-home-of-Nazis, or Buchanan's Kulturkampf references, and connections to Catholicism.

So, clearly there is something iconic and relevant to politics. Essentially it is a question mark -- where does Germany belong in the Group, Hive Mind story these days? It is ambiguous, but the placid surface of the question belies the stormy depths of it.

[Professor John Frink]

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Sign up there, and you'll be in good company.

[Felix the Cat]

Strange thread.

The place is both nordic/alpine, protestant/catholic, lowland/mountainous - all generally aligned on a north/south axis

Make of that what you will.

[Johnson]

The place is both nordic/alpine

You forgot Dinaric. Surely this has some meaning. Try not to insult the white race like this again.

[delete]

Germans are most probably a mix of germanics coming from scandinavia and the Hallstatt culture.

Hallstatt culture
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Celts_800-400BC.PNG
Archeological map of distribution of the Celtic Hallstatt culture ca. 800 – 400 BCE.

A drawing by Johann G. Ramsauer (1795-1874) documenting one of his cemetery digs at Hallstatt.

The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture during the local Bronze Age and preceded the Iron Age throughout most of Northern and North-eastern Europe. Depending on the interpreter, the culture is linked to the Celts or to their predecessors. It is named for its type site, Hallstatt a lakeside village in the Austrian Salzkammergut southeast of Salzburg.

An eastern Hallstatt cultural zone including Croatia, Slovenia, western Hungary, the eastern and southern parts of Austria, the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, and Slovakia can be distinguished from a western cultural zone which includes northern Italy, Switzerland, eastern France, southern Germany, and the Bohemia region of the Czech Republic.

The succeeding culture in much of Central Europe is the La Tène culture.



These people were not scandinavians, but they at least constitutes a part of the german genome of today, if not most of europes genome as well.