Germans | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-03-26

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00:02:03 1 Etymology
00:04:27 2 History
00:05:09 2.1 Origins
00:11:05 2.2 Medieval period
00:16:31 2.3 Early Modern period
00:21:29 2.4 Twentieth century
00:26:04 2.5 1945 to present
00:27:59 3 Language
00:28:58 3.1 Dialects
00:30:48 3.2 Native speakers
00:31:04 4 Geographic distribution
00:32:09 5 Culture
00:32:18 5.1 Literature
00:33:46 5.2 Philosophy
00:36:06 5.3 Science
00:37:50 5.4 Music
00:40:19 5.5 Cinema
00:42:27 5.6 Architecture
00:43:29 5.7 Religion
00:46:36 5.8 Sport
00:48:34 5.9 Society
00:51:37 6 Identity
00:54:29 6.1 1871–1918
00:58:22 6.2 1918–1945
01:02:30 6.3 1945–1990
01:04:31 6.4 1990–present
01:09:01 7 See also



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Germans (German: Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history. German is the shared mother tongue of a substantial majority of ethnic Germans.
The English term Germans  has historically referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages.  Ever since the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation within the Holy Roman Empire, German society has been characterized by a Catholic-Protestant divide.Of approximately 100 million native speakers of German in the world, roughly 80 million consider themselves Germans. There are an additional 80 million people of German ancestry mainly in the United States, Brazil (mainly in the South Region of the country), Argentina, Canada, South Africa, the post-Soviet states (mainly in Russia and Kazakhstan), and France, each accounting for at least 1 million. Thus, the total number of Germans lies somewhere between 100 and more than 150 million, depending on the criteria applied (native speakers, single-ancestry ethnic Germans, partial German ancestry, etc.).
Today, people from countries with German-speaking majorities (such as Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and other historically-tied countries like Luxembourg) most often subscribe to their own national identities and may or may not also self-identify as ethnically German.