Presentation by Sarita Jenkins
35% Roman Catholic 36% Protestant (mostly Lutheran) 2% Muslim 25% no official religion Catholics are mostly located in the southern and the western parts of Germany Protestants are mostly located in the northern and the eastern parts of Germany
Martin Luther Declared his intolerance for the Roman Churchs corruption on Halloween in 1517, by nailing his 95 Theses of Contention to the Wittenberg Church door Exiled following the Diet of Worms Council in 1521 that was designed to martyr him Translated the New Testament (NT) into German for the first time from the 1516 Greek-Latin New Testament of Erasmus Published NT September of 1522 Published a German Pentateuch in 1523, and another edition of the German New Testament in 1529 Published the entire Bible in German in the 1530s
Borders of the States of Germany Saar- land
German National Anthem Lied der Deutschen Rock Music Folk music Herr Zahns Liederbuch Classical music and composers Ludwig van Beethoven Johannes Brahms Johann Sebastian Bach Richard Wagner
Oktoberfest Cannstatter Volksfest Hanover Schutzenfest Freimarkt in Bremen Hamburger Dom
Internationally recognized sport including live music, beer, and food Born in the 1960s to incorporate fitness at all levels Vary in length from 5km to 50km Earn souvenir stamp for walking booklet, pins, patches and misc souvenirs
Grimm Brothers Heinr Hoffmann
Neuschwanstein Linderhof Wartburg
flood of immigrants guest workers international students
economic woes of the former Communist countries economic and political refugees since 1989 highly-organized criminal network involved in promoting the entry of illegal immigrants from all over the world
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