Dempsey, Judy (31 October 2006). "Germany is planning a Bosnia withdrawal". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Football is the most popular sport in Germany. With more than 7million official members, the German Football Association ( Deutscher Fußball-Bund) is the largest single-sport organisation worldwide, [296] and the German top league, the Bundesliga, attracts the second-highest average attendance of all professional sports leagues in the world. [297] The German men's national football team won the FIFA World Cup in 1954, 1974, 1990, and 2014, [298] the UEFA European Championship in 1972, 1980 and 1996, [299] and the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2017. [300]

So he came up with a plan. In 2013, he filed a civil claim, seeking €20,000 in damages from Mazurek for causing his tinnitus. It was a legal ruse: since Mazurek would defend the case on the basis that he was wrongfully convicted and so could not be considered responsible, the court would have to reconsider the facts of the criminal trial before coming to a conclusion. It would be an opportunity, Michael believed, “to get nearer to the truth”.

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With its central position in Europe, Germany is a transport hub for the continent. [200] Its road network is among the densest in Europe. [201] The motorway ( Autobahn) is widely known for having no general federally mandated speed limit for some classes of vehicles. [202] The Intercity Express or ICE train network serves major German cities as well as destinations in neighbouring countries with speeds up to 300km/h (190mph). [203] The largest German airports are Frankfurt Airport and Munich Airport. [204] The Port of Hamburg is one of the twenty largest container ports in the world. [205] Germany has a low murder rate with 1.18 murders per 100,000 as of 2016 [update]. [145] In 2018, the overall crime rate fell to its lowest since 1992. [146]

Demshuk, Andrew (2012). The Lost German East. Cambridge University Press. p.52. ISBN 978-1-107-02073-3. Archived from the original on 1 December 2016. From 1952 to 1990, the entire "Lied der Deutschen" was the national anthem, but only the third verse was sung on official occasions. Since 1991, the third verse alone has been the national anthem. [1]

Maksudov, S (1994). "Soviet Deaths in the Great Patriotic War: A Note". Europe-Asia Studies. 46 (4): 671–680. doi: 10.1080/09668139408412190. PMID 12288331. What is the name of the German band that have released songs such as “Du Hast” and “Amerika”? RammsteinVarious Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. Following the Napoleonic Wars and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the German Confederation was formed in 1815. Since Zipser’s speciality is linguistic profiling – at Royal Holloway, University of London, she uses modern profiling techniques to identify authors of ancient Greek medical texts – she decided to compare the ransom notes sent by the kidnappers to samples of Mazurek’s writing, which Haider had posted on the internet. Zipser analysed the words used, and the writing style. Whoever composed the ransom notes was well educated, she said, a native speaker pretending to be a foreigner by writing in broken German. “I am sure it was not Mazurek,” Zipser told me. From February 2019–2020, average monthly temperatures in Germany ranged from a low of 3.3°C (37.9°F) in January 2020 to a high of 19.8°C (67.6°F) in June 2019. [116] Average monthly precipitation ranged from 30 litres per square metre in February and April 2019 to 125 litres per square metre in February 2020. [117] Average monthly hours of sunshine ranged from 45 in November 2019 to 300 in June 2019. [118] Biodiversity Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria