The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.

This legend of Trebeta as having founded Trier is also found in Godfrey of Viterbo's Pantheon ( 1185 ) and several other German chronicles of the 12th or 13th century, including the works of Sigebert of Gembloux.

The German Army, contrary to what the blitzkrieg legend suggests, was not fully motorised.

The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.

Football legend, former FC Bayern President and DFB Vice-President, Franz Beckenbauer, on the other hand, showed his support for Stoiber by letting him join the German national football team on their flight home from Japan after the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

The legend of Der Erlkönig appears to have originated in fairly recent times in Denmark and Goethe based his poem on " Erlkönigs Tochter " (" Erlkönig's Daughter "), a Danish work translated into German by Johann Gottfried Herder.

Fingal written in 1762 was speedily translated into many European languages, and its deep appreciation of natural beauty and the melancholy tenderness of its treatment of the ancient legend did more than any single work to bring about the Romantic movement in European, and especially in German, literature, influencing Herder and Goethe.

The Brothers Grimm identified Hengist with Aschanes, mythical first King of the Saxons, in their notes for legend number 413 of their German Legends.

Nürburgring circuit map, taken at German Grand Prix 1964 ; the legend advises " No driving in the Eifel ( mountains ) without a lap on the Nürburgring "

These include Alice, an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Faust, a rendition of the legend of the German scholar.

The urban legend that Coca-Cola developed the drink Fanta to sell in Nazi Germany without public backlash originated as the actual tale of German Max Keith, who invented the drink and ran Coca-Cola's operations in Germany during World War II.

Shelley also drew on European folklore, such as the medieval Jewish legend of the golem, and German, Czech and Moravian ghost stories featuring vengeful dead ( many of whom have characteristics of vampires rather than zombies ).

In German, the equivalent is Krieg ; the equivalent Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian words for " war " is guerra, derived from the Germanic werra (“ fight ”, “ tumult ”).< ref > Diccionario de la Lengua Española, 21 < sup > a </ sup > edición ( 1992 ) p. 1071 </ ref > Etymologic legend has it that the Romanic peoples adopted a foreign, Germanic word for " war ", to avoid using the Latin bellum, because, when sounded, it tended to merge with the sound of the word bello (" beautiful ")

* June 26 – According to legend, the Pied Piper of Hamelin visits the German town of Hamelin and leads 130 children to their deaths, as told in the tales of the Brothers Grimm and many others.

Gottfried's version, part of the " courtly " branch of the legend, had a huge influence on later German literature.

The Fama Fraternitatis presented the legend of a German doctor and mystic philosopher referred to as " Frater C. R. C.

Around the same time, he received a visit from a German missionary who, according to legend, survived an ordeal by fire, which convinced Harold to convert to Christianity.

In moving to Chelsea, Gullit played an important part in the " foreign revolution " as numerous high profile international stars, such as the prolific German World Cup winner Jürgen Klinsmann, Italian superstar Gianfranco Zola who became a Chelsea legend, and Dutch magician Dennis Bergkamp, joined Premiership clubs and helped to increase its worldwide profile.

Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.

The Middle High German legend of Dietrich von Bern is based on the historical Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths.

* The Nibelungenlied, an epic poem in Middle High German, tells the saga of Siegfried / Sigurd, who killed a dragon on the Drachenfels ( Siebengebirge ) (" dragons rock "), near Bonn at the Rhine and of the Burgundians and their court at Worms, at the Rhine and Kriemhild's golden treasure, which was thrown into the Rhine by Hagen.

In Germanic mythology, serpent ( Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr ) is used interchangeable with the Greek borrowing dragon ( OE: draca, OHG: trahho, ON: dreki ).

The word for dragon in Germanic mythology and its descendants is worm ( Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr ), meaning snake or serpent.

In the Nibelungenlied, a medieval German work ultimately based on oral tradition recounting events amongst the Germanic tribes in the 5th and 6th centuries, Siegfried gains his invulnerability by bathing in the blood of a dragon.

Obviously the name means “ aboriginal abyss ,” or in the terser German, Urgrund, and we have reason to believe it to be a translation of the Babylonian Tiamat, “ the Deep .”< p > The Chinese legend tells us that P ’ an-Ku ’ s bones changed to rocks ; his flesh to earth ; his marrow, teeth and nails to metals ; his hair to herbs and trees ; his veins to rivers ; his breath to wind ; and his four limbs became pillars marking the four corners of the world, — which is a Chinese version not only of the Norse myth of the Giant Ymir, but also of the Babylonian story of Tiamat .< p > Illustrations of P ’ an-Ku represent him in the company of supernatural animals that symbolize old age or immortality, viz., the tortoise and the crane ; sometimes also the dragon, the emblem of power, and the phoenix, the emblem of bliss .< p > When the earth had thus been shaped from the body of P ’ an-Ku, we are told that three great rivers successively governed the world: first the celestial, then the terrestrial, and finally the human sovereign.

Lindworm ( cognate with Old Norse linnormr ' constrictor snake ', Norwegian linnorm ' dragon ', Swedish, lindorm, Danish, lindorm ' serpent ', German Lindwurm ' dragon ') in British heraldry, is a technical term for a wingless bipedal dragon often with a venomous bite.

The dragon Fáfnir from the Norse Völsunga saga appears in the German Nibelungenlied as a lindwurm that lived near Worms.

The pair had told the press that the dragon was found with documents suggesting it had been offered to the Natural History Museum in the late nineteenth century by German scientists.

So-called " dragon bones " ( fossil bones and teeth ) from Chinese apothecary shops were known, but it was not until the early 20th century that German paleontologist, Max Schlosser, first described a single human tooth from Beijing.

The dragon Melanchthon is named after German theologian Philipp Melanchthon, an associate of Martin Luther.

The motif of chaoskampf ( German for " struggle against chaos ") is ubiquitous in such myths, depicting a battle of a culture hero deity with a chaos monster, often in the shape of a serpent or dragon.

Early work by German academics in comparative mythology popularized translating the mythological sea serpent as a " dragon.

The word also refers to the kites that children fly, as well as the word for dragon in German, Russian, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Swedish and Scottish English.

The little dragon managed to unite the High Society of German musical actors, with stars such as Andreas Bieber, Ross Antony, Paul Kribbe, Carolin Fortenbacher

His younger brother, Hardheri ( replaced in later German legend by Wolfdietrich ), avenged Ortnit by killing the dragon, and then married his brother's widow.

It was during the Red Terror that the Cheka, hoping to avoid the bloody aftermath of having half-dead victims writhing on the floor, developed a technique for execution known later by the German words " Nackenschuss " or " Genickschuss ", a shot to the nape of the neck, which caused minimal blood loss and instant death.

Hitler declared that no drop of German blood would be lost or left behind to mingle with an " alien race ".

Himmler's plans began with the Volksliste, the classification of people deemed of German blood.

Himmler's belief that " it is in the nature of German blood to resist " led to his conclusion that Balts or Poles who resisted Germanization were racially superior to more compliant ones.

Himmler declared, " We have faith above all in this our own blood, which has flowed into a foreign nationality through the vicissitudes of German history.

Gercke reported that Heydrich was "... of German origin and free from any coloured and Jewish blood ".

Adorno's house on Seeheimer Strasse was similarly searched in July and his application for membership in the Reich Chamber of Literature was denied on the grounds that membership was limited to " persons who belong to the German nation by profound ties of character and blood.

However, he and Goebbels agreed that after the Endsieg ( Final Victory ) the Reich Church should be pressed into evolving into a German social evolutionist organisation proclaiming the cult of race, blood and battle, instead of Redemption and the Ten Commandments of Moses, which they deemed outdated and Jewish.

* Languages ( mainly Germanic ) that use ( generally alongside a princeps-derivate for princes of the blood ) an equivalent of the German Fürst:

At the end of the 19th century, the French-German debate on nationality saw the French, such as Ernest Renan, oppose the German conception, exemplified by Johann Fichte, who believed in an " objective nationality ", based on blood, race or language.

The German and Dutch languages, which have separate words for royal prince ( Prinz, Prins ) and for sovereign prince ( Fürst, Vorst ), mark the Grand Princes of Lithuania, Ruthenian states and other Eastern European nations as higher princes, as well as the Russian rulers and later princes of the blood, by the terms Grossfürst, Grootvorst, not Grossherzog, Groothertog.

Early devices for lie detection include an 1895 invention of Cesare Lombroso used to measure changes in blood pressure for police cases, a 1904 device by Vittorio Benussi used to measure breathing, and an abandoned project by American William Marston which used blood pressure to examine German prisoners of war ( POWs ).

Rassenschande also featured in Die goldene Stadt, where the Sudeten German heroine faces not persecution but the allure of the big city ; when she succumbs, in defiance of blood and soil, she is seduced and abandoned by a Czech, and such a relationship leads to her drowning herself.

No drop of German blood was to be lost or left behind for an alien race.

A few days after they had been murdered, the German government sent several telegrams to Russia demanding ' the safety of the princesses of German blood '.

The racial idea has been grossly betrayed in this war in that the best German blood is being irrevocably sacrificed, while simultaneously Germany is populated by millions of foreign workers, who certainly cannot be described as of high racial quality

German Wurst: liver sausage, blood sausage, and ham sausage

Other types of sausage include black pudding, similar to the German and Polish blood sausages.

One of the first works of art to touch upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire ( 1748 ) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, where the theme already has strong erotic overtones: a man whose love is rejected by a respectable and pious maiden threatens to pay her a nightly visit, drink her blood by giving her the seductive kiss of the vampire and thus prove her that his teaching is better than her mother's Christianity.

During his appeal in 1992, Irving called upon those present in the Munich courtroom to " fight a battle for the German people and put an end to the blood lie of the Holocaust which has been told against this country for fifty years ".

Plant the black, red, gold banner at the summit of the German idea, make it the standard of free mankind, and I will shed my dear heart's blood for it.

Among the first to bring the term " ethnic group " into social studies was the German sociologist Max Weber, who defined it as: hose human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization and migration ; this belief must be important for group formation ; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.