Guten Tag!

Students are learning about the Grimm Brothers and their stories.

The longest word in the German language is:
Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunter-beamtengesellschaft (no hyphen)
It means "association of subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services"
(the name of a pre-war club in Vienna)

Fun facts about Deutschland:
it is the size of Montana
    population: about 82 million
      there are over 300 different kinds of bread
      there are more football (America's "soccer") fan clubs in Germany than anywhere else in the world
       
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