The Petscheks were also German-speaking Jews, wise enough to foresee the horrors that awaited them: they left Prague in 1938.
It was also a regular haunt for members of the so-called Prague Circle of German-speaking writers, most notably the angst-ridden Franz Kafka.
One Bulgarian call-centre, for example, reckons that it takes only four months to teach German-speaking employees to answer calls in Dutch as well.
Although little seen in Britain and still under-represented in America, Mr Wilson's theatre and opera productions are well-known in French- and German-speaking countries.
That appeal was denied, though the Hess family was able to move to a then German-speaking part of Italy for the next several years.
Never since the war in the German-speaking countries has a politician widely considered to have Nazi sympathies and antecedents come so close to power.
At least a third of children with non-German roots and a tenth of those growing up in German-speaking homes do not speak standard German properly.
The deal also sets up the movie's most felicitous invention, the revelation that Candyland's slaves include Django's long-lost wife, a German-speaking beauty named Broomhilda (Kerry Washington).
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For people like Mr Buschkowsky, this is a disastrous departure from the progressive policy of encouraging women to work and young children to attend German-speaking pre-schools.
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In 1938, the Munich agreement was signed between France, Germany, Britain and Italy in which the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland, was surrendered to Nazi Germany.
His book gives a chapter to each year, stitching together developments in the German-speaking world (his forte) as well as neurotic France, reactionary Russia and self-confident Britain.
But this time the vote also bridged the linguistic divide between them and their German-speaking countrymen: in Zurich, the most populous canton, no less than 70% of voters said yes.
Zweig, a Jew, had left Austria in 1934, living in England and New York before the final move to Brazil, and his work had been banned and vilified across the German-speaking world.
The governor of South Tyrol, a German-speaking province ceded to Italy after the First World War, said that it was unreasonable to expect his people to celebrate their subjugation to an alien culture.
In Grossbasel, the Altstadt (Old Town) charms with its 15th- and 16th-century architecture, including many half-timbered houses, a common architectural style in the German-speaking areas (of both Switzerland and Germany) north of the Alps.
But it has given rise to concerns that the Czech press has sold itself into the hands of mighty media conglomerates based in the German-speaking world - traditionally seen as representing a threat to Czech identity.
Although united in matters of cantonal pride such as wine and cheese, the French- and German-speaking towns reveal idiosyncrasies: elegant Zermatt attracts champagnesipping dignitaries, while Martigny hides Henry Moore sculptures and Brig puts on a baroque show.
The government is now trying to soothe the fears of the German-speaking losers in the country's eastern heartland, such as the tiny half-canton of Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, where 68% of the voters (by head-count, a total of 4, 486 people) said No.
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One thing they all have in common is that their income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, is well below that of the US. In fact, the Scandinavian and German-speaking countries that consistently score well on a variety of business and quality-of-life surveys have some of the lowest inequality scores among developed nations.
Zegota managed to foil the plan after they bribed a Polish-speaking German officer with a large backpack full of dollars.
German trade-unionists, whether speaking through their union or their works council, are no readier to rush headlong into suicide than anyone else.
Still, there are millions of people speaking other languages -- including French, German, Mandarin, Arabic and lesser known languages -- that also benefit from bilingual workers.
And she also took a swipe at Britain's representatives in Europe, both officials and elected MEPs, for "going native" - and even speaking with a "weird half French, half German accent".
It was springtime in Berlin and Eric Holder, a well-known "rule of law" devotee, was speaking to the German press.
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