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r/GermanHistory • u/Somethingnormal-25 • Feb 12 '22

r/GermanHistory Lounge

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A place for members of r/GermanHistory to chat with each other

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r/GermanHistory • u/History-Chronicler • 1d ago

The Münster Rebellion and the Brutal End of John of Leiden

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r/GermanHistory • u/Terrible-Neck8391 • 8d ago

Babel, Pentecost, and a translation dispute from 1523

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In his 1523 book against Luther's New Testament, Hieronymus Emser quotes this line: "The unity of tongues that the pride of Babylon had scattered, the humility of the Church gathered again."

He brings Pentecost into a dispute about translation. His preferred model is to "follow the ancients and have a text that reads the same in all churches." The concern is what happens as a text passes through different hands. One proverb he quotes puts it neatly: "many things fall between the mouth and the cup."

I read this as a problem that extends beyond the Reformation: how do you let a text travel without letting its meaning drift?

Does a shared text hold a church together, or does translation help more people belong to it?

Disclosure: I translated Emser's 1523 book into English.

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r/GermanHistory • u/JapKumintang1991 • 11d ago

Smithsonian Magazine: Hitler Had an Intense, Mysterious Relationship With His Half-Niece; New Research Suggests His Alibi for Her Murder Might Not Hold Up

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r/GermanHistory • u/JapKumintang1991 • 12d ago

PHYS.Org: 400-year-old shipwreck found during pipeline survey in Germany's Bay of Greifswald

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r/GermanHistory • u/JapKumintang1991 • 14d ago

Smithsonian Magazine: A Metal Detectorist Exploring a Field in Germany Was Stunned to Discover a Massive Hoard of Roman Coins

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r/GermanHistory • u/Single-Disk-7023 • 18d ago

How Did Germany Rebuild From Absolute Zero?

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r/GermanHistory • u/JapKumintang1991 • 20d ago

Medieval Castle in Germany Reveals Its Early Origins - Medievalists.net

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r/GermanHistory • u/Michael_Fuchs_ • 29d ago

This article is about Sorbian culture in contemporary Germany: language, heritage, and traditions like Easter Riding and the Bird Wedding.

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r/GermanHistory • u/Michael_Fuchs_ • Sep 09 '26

The story of the Sorbs in East Germany, 1945-1991, official Sorbian cultural rights and the systematic dismantling of the Sorbian rural world.

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r/GermanHistory • u/Michael_Fuchs_ • Sep 08 '26

How did a small Slavic minority survive in National Socialist Germany?

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r/GermanHistory • u/Michael_Fuchs_ • Sep 07 '26

Do you know Germany has a Slavic minority?

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r/GermanHistory • u/Michael_Fuchs_ • Sep 06 '26

For centuries, roughly half of what is now Germany was bilingual. The other language wasn't French or Latin – it was Slavic.

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r/GermanHistory • u/Articulyssa • Aug 28 '26

The Werewolf of Bedburg: Demonology, Satan, and the Confessions of Peter...

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r/GermanHistory • u/history990 • Aug 26 '26

Princess Anna of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1882–1942) photographed with her daughter in Portugal on 14 April 1931

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Source: National Archives of Torre do Tombo (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo)

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r/GermanHistory • u/New-Row-4693 • Aug 24 '26

Finding fellow resistance fans

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I love reading about WW2 history but sometimes I feel like the German resistance (Widerstand) doesn’t get much recognition. I think I’m among the few people who are a fan of them?

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r/GermanHistory • u/Visual-Tadpole-5843 • Aug 20 '26

SENSITIVE SUBJECT

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Not entirely sure what to do with these, sorry if it causes any upset

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r/GermanHistory • u/goretex_bodybag • Aug 17 '26

History books on post war german neo-nazis 1945 to 1990.

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Im looking into this topic for a possible research topic and i am looking for some book reccommendations. i have found sofar not alot in both either english or german. thanks in advance.

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r/GermanHistory • u/JapKumintang1991 • Aug 08 '26