Outpacing that of wine since 2001, the growing production and consumption of beer has supported the existence of related events, for example the so-called Oktoberfests ( sic ) or " Fiestas de la Cerveza " in locations that have a significant German population ( Villa General Belgrano in Córdoba, San Carlos and Esperanza in the province of Santa Fe, etc .).

Most of the population () speaks German ( 84. 5 %), with Italian being second most common ( 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 2. 9 %).

Most of the population () speaks German ( 477, 093 or 87. 1 %) as their first language, Italian is the second most common ( 17, 847 or 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian is the third ( 10, 645 or 1. 9 %).

In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and pressure from the East German population, the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989 and was subsequently mostly demolished, with little of its physical structure remaining today ; the East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain near the Oberbaumbrücke over the Spree preserves a portion of the Wall.

With the establishment of a German state in Prussia, and the eradication or flight of much of the Baltic Prussian population in the 13th century, the remaining Prussians began to be assimilated, and by the end of the 17th century, the Prussian language had become extinct.

Most of the population () speaks German ( 129, 592 or 77. 8 %), with Italian being second most common ( 9, 049 or 5. 4 %) and French being third ( 4, 280 or 2. 6 %).

The demographic history of Croatia is marked by significant migrations, including the arrival of the Croats in the area growth of Hungarian and German speaking population since the personal union of Croatia and Hungary, and joining of the Habsburg Empire, migrations set off by Ottoman conquests and growth of Italian speaking population in Istria and in Dalmatia during Venetian rule there.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Hungarian population declined, while the German speaking population was forced or compelled to leave after World War II and similar fate was suffered by the Italian population.

The German population was expelled from the region.

After the expulsion of most of the German population, the city was repopulated and became known under the Polish name Elbląg.

Among the important political issues at the time was the deployment of Pershing II IRBMs and nuclear-tipped cruise missiles by the U. S. and NATO on West German soil, generating strong opposition in the general population that found an outlet in mass demonstrations.

While the Kingdom of Prussia contained most of the population and most of the territory of the Reich, the Prussian leadership became supplanted by German leaders and Prussia itself played a lesser role.

About 92 % of the population spoke German as their first language.

Protestant and Catholic troops alike burned and plundered the region and the population was decimated there as it was throughout the German states.

Episodes of widespread famine and disease devastated the population of the German states and, to a lesser extent, the Low Countries, Bohemia and Italy, while bankrupting many of the regional powers involved.

Between one-fourth and one-third of the German population perished from direct military causes or from illness and starvation related to the war.

The German lands had a population of about 5 or 6 million.

The German population reached about twenty million people, the great majority of whom were peasant farmers.

The population of the German Confederation ( excluding Austria ) grew 60 % from 1815 to 1865, from 21, 000, 000 to 34, 000, 000.

The return of prosperity gave the Nazi Party enormous popularity, with only minor, isolated and subsequently unsuccessful cases of resistance among the German population over the 12 years of rule.

The total of German war dead was 8 % to 10 % out of a prewar population of 69, 000, 000, or between 5. 5 million and 7 million people.

Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the book is interesting both for its hits ( trains and cars resulting in the dispersion of population from cities to suburbs ; moral restrictions declining as men and women seek greater sexual freedom ; the defeat of German militarism, and the existence of a European Union ) and its misses ( he did not expect successful aircraft before 1950, and averred that " my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea ").

* 1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Also, while in New Guinea, he visited the Lutheran missionaries Otto Thiele and Christian Keyser, in the Finschhafen district ; there, while in conversation with his hosts, he uncovered the discrepancies in Hermann Detzner's popular book, Four Years among the Cannibals in German Guinea from 1914 to the Truce, in which Detzner claimed to have seen the interior, discovered several species of flora and fauna, while remaining only steps ahead of the Australian patrols sent to capture him.

The guild system reached a mature state in Germany circa 1300 and held on in the German cities into the 19th century, with some special privileges for certain occupations remaining today.

The last remaining gunpowder mill at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey was damaged by a German parachute mine in 1941 and it never reopened.

Marshall Plan funding helped overcome bottlenecks in the surging economy caused by remaining controls ( which were removed in 1949 ), and Marshall Plan business reforms opened up a greatly expanded market for German exports.

On 17 April 1941, after King Peter II and other members of the government fled the country, the remaining representatives of the government and military met with the German officials in Belgrade.

In 1945 Polish and Soviet troops seized the town and it was subsequently attached to Poland, while the remaining German population which had not fled the advancing Red Army was expelled.

* 1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia ; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.

The majority ( over 100 thousand ) gradually left and after the improvement of German-Polish relations by the German Ostpolitik of the 1970s 55, 227 persons from Warmia and Masuria moved to Western Germany in between 1971 and 1988, today approximately between 5, 000 and 6, 000 Masurians still live in the area, about 50 percent of them members of the German minority in Poland, the remaining half is ethnic Polish.

* 1977 – German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.

* Expulsion of the German populations remaining beyond the new eastern borders of Germany.

#: The Three Governments, having considered the question in all its aspects, recognize that the transfer to Germany of German populations, or elements thereof, remaining in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, will have to be undertaken.

#:" German populations, or elements thereof, remaining in Poland " refers to Germans living within the 1937 boundaries of Poland up to the Curzon line going East.

When the German government abolished gambling in the 1860s, the Blanc family moved to the last legal remaining casino operation in Europe at Monte Carlo, where they established a gambling mecca for the elite of Europe.

With the fall of communism and Poland joining the European Union, there were enough of these remaining in Upper Silesia to allow for the recognition of the German minority in Poland by the Polish government.

The remaining ethnic German population was expelled, primarily to East Germany, between 1945 and 1947.

* March 15 – German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia ; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.

The remaining 2, 000 men of the German army limped on to Nicaea, where many of the survivors deserted and tried to return home.

Erhard continued his political work by remaining a member of the West German parliament until his death in Bonn on 5 May 1977.

One analysis is that U. S. strategy underestimated the strength and determination remaining in the psyche of the German soldier, believing his fighting spirit to have totally collapsed under the stress of the Normandy breakout and the reduction of the Falaise Pocket.

On 2 September 1944, as the Red Army approached the Bulgarian border, a new Bulgarian government came to power and sought peace with the Allies, expelled the few remaining German troops, and declared neutrality.