German-American Day on October 6 is a holiday that celebrates centuries of German immigrant contributions to American society and culture.
We apologize for the Cheeto, his grandfather was a draft dodger who fled Germany to avoid criminal prosecution. Runs in the family I guess.
![Skórzyn ([ˈskuʐɨn]; German: Skyren, 1937–45 Teichwalde) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Maszewo, within Krosno County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.
The former German chancellor Leo von Caprivi died here on 6 February 1899.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ndxd4h47nhylsdfke4x4arlk/bafkreifwevtp25gekjxdulsjdfansx5hdtxdaw3ti3rjsjtexbiqsdhvom)
![German Unity Day (German: Tag der Deutschen Einheit, pronounced [ˈtaːk deːɐ̯ ˈdɔʏtʃn̩ ˈʔaɪnhaɪt]) is the National Day of Germany, celebrated on 3 October as a public holiday. It commemorates German reunification in 1990 when the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) ceased to exist and joined the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), so that for the first time since 1945 there existed a single German state. German Unity Day on 3 October has been the German national holiday since 1990, when the reunification was formally completed.
An alternative choice to commemorate the reunification could have been the day the Berlin Wall came down: 9 November 1989, which coincided with the anniversary of the proclamation of the German Republic in 1918, and the defeat of Hitler's first coup in 1923. However, 9 November was also the anniversary of the first large-scale Nazi-led pogroms against Jews in 1938 (Reichspogromnacht), so the day was considered inappropriate as a national holiday (see 9 November in German history). Therefore, 3 October 1990, the day of the formal reunification, was chosen instead. It replaced the "German Unity Day" on 17 June, the national holiday of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1954.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ndxd4h47nhylsdfke4x4arlk/bafkreidmkswdals5o32c3htdgbsbmdkw6d4obhjgm3yrsrafiybjgse33i)
![Kutuzovo (Russian: Куту́зово; German: Schirwindt, Polish: Szyrwinta,[4] Lithuanian: Širvinta) is an abandoned rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnoznamensky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the eastern extreme of the oblast. It is notable for being the easternmost settlement of the old German Reich, before the region was annexed into the Soviet Union after World War II.
Being the easternmost settlement of Prussia, it was the country's first town to see sunrise, a fact that was incorporated into its former coat of arms, which featured a Prussian eagle atop a rising sun. The coat of arms was granted by King Frederick William IV on 3 August 1846. From 1871 it was also part of Germany, also being its easternmost settlement.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ndxd4h47nhylsdfke4x4arlk/bafkreihrlytq6nkrnbtonsyfvcfm45gc5xa2g6i2pwgkkrizbxw77ow5fy)
![The lesson of Munich, in international relations, refers to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler at the Munich Conference in September 1938. To avoid war, France and the United Kingdom permitted Nazi Germany to incorporate the Sudetenland. Earlier acts of appeasement included the Allied inaction towards the remilitarization of the Rhineland and the Anschluss of Austria, while subsequent ones included inaction to the First Vienna Award, the annexation of the remainder of Czech Lands to form the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, as well as the 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania forcing it to cede the Klaipėda Region.
The policy of appeasement underestimated Hitler's ambitions by believing that enough concessions would secure a lasting peace.[1] Today, the agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement towards Germany,[2] and a diplomatic triumph for Hitler. It facilitated the German takeover of Czechoslovakia and caused Hitler to believe that the Western Allies would not risk war over Poland the following year, an assessment openly expressed in his famous quotation: "I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms", which proved partially correct in light of the popularity of the slogan Why die for Danzig? in France and, crucially, the events known as the Phoney War.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ndxd4h47nhylsdfke4x4arlk/bafkreifwshsyfty5vqdavjn4rlc3adkipyihcrautayo77sg3esgejablq)
