[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Name Origin - Germany

[gpvjem]

    I have just discovered that Mr Fenske's email address has changed to
e.fenske at sasktel.net .  I have passed your answer to his new address G|nther.

John Marsch

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  From: G|nther Bvhm
  To: Wolhynien-Liste ; efenske at accesscomm.ca
  Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:02 PM

  gpvjem schrieb:

  >        I received the following questions today along with SGGEE
membership mail.  I am posting them to the Listserv verbatim.  The same person
suggested that perhaps a future Journal article on the subject would be in
order.
  >    Here are the questions;
  >
  >        Where and when did the name "Germany" originate as the name of the
country?
  >
  >        What happened to the term "Deutschland" and why did it not become
the name of the United Kingdoms after 1871?
  >

  Hello John, hello nameless,
  as far as we speak about an official term, it was of course the name of
  the German state, i.e. for approximately thousand years "Heiliges
  Roemisches Reich Deutscher Nation", from 1871 to 1938 "Deutsches Reich"
  and from 1938 (the annexion of Austria and the Bohemian Sudetenland) to
  1945 "Grossdeutsches Reich". The term "Deutschland" (i.e. German
  country) was traditionally used for the regions inhabited by a German
  majority (like England, Scotland, Ireland, Poland) and became a national
  slogan after the Napoleonic wars. It was the aim of the founders of the
  post-WWII German state to fulfill the legacy of the German revolution of
  1848 why they chose the popular term of "Germany" instead of any
  traditional administrative name. Note that the German black-red-gold
  flag descends from this revolution too and it is said that it means
  "from darkness through fire to light" - sounds good, doesn't it?

  Guenther Boehm
  of Hilden, Germany

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