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Eigengrau (German for "intrinsic gray"; pronounced [ˈʔaɪ̯gŋ̍ˌgʁaʊ̯] ⓘ), also called Eigenlicht (Dutch and German for "intrinsic light"), dark light, or brain gray, is the uniform dark gray background color that many people report seeing in the absence of light.
Grey is rarely used as a color by political parties, largely because of its common association with conformity, boredom and indecision. An example of a political party using grey as a color are the German Grey Panthers. The term "grey power" or "the grey vote" is sometimes used to describe the influence of older voters as a voting bloc.
Feldgrau of the Wehrmacht (Stalingrad 1942) Service dress in Hellgrau (German Bundeswehr) Feldgrau (English: field-grey) is a green–grey color. It was the official basic color of military uniforms of the German armed forces from the early 20th century until 1945 (West Germany) or 1989 (East Germany). Armed forces of other countries also used ...
Grauton - Gray tone; Gravitation - Gravity; greifen - to grab; Greifvogel - bird of prey; grell - glaring; Grenze - border; Grenzabschnitt - border section; Grenzschützer - Border guards; Grenzwachtposten - Border guards; Grenzübergangsstelle - Border crossing point; Griechenland - Greece; griffe - handles; grimmig - grim; Grippesaison - Flu ...
Developments and discoveries in German-speaking nations in science, scholarship, and classical music have led to German words for new concepts, which have been adopted into English: for example the words doppelgänger and angst in psychology. Discussion of German history and culture requires some German words.
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
Grau (Catalan:; German:) is a common surname used in Catalan and German, meaning respectively "grade", coming from the Latin word gradus, or "gray". People [ edit ]
Brummbär – "grumbling bear"; a children's word for "bear" in German. It was the nickname for a heavy mobile artillery piece. Bundes – federal. Bundeswehr – "Federal Defense Force", name adopted for the West German armed forces after the fall of the Third Reich. (Between 1945 and 1955 there was no German army.)