Re: My Hate List (Revised)

Am Montag000010, 10.02.2025 um 04:09 schrieb Physfitfreak:

On 2/9/25 1:30 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:

Well, Germany didn't exist at the time of Luther

  But Germans existed.

Let's say: there existed people in the region, which is now called 'Germany'.
These people were not called 'Germans', because no country bearing this name existed at the time of Luther.
Luther was born in Eisleben and that city belonged to one of these tiny states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisleben
Whether nor not you call these people 'Germans' is up to you.
'Germanic' would have been better (which would include Danish, Dutch and British).
But ethnicity of these people is a difficult topic, because the modern 'Germans' are actually a crude mixture of all kinds of people, which marched with their troops through the area of current Germany in ancient times.
TH