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Ethnic German

Ethnic Germans (usually simply called Germans) are those who are considered, by themselves or others, to be German rather than anything else but who do not live within the Federal Republic of Germany nor hold its citizenship. The concept of ethnic belonging is always problematic; it can relate to

• cultural connection with German culture, often including
• speaking the German language
• having ancestors being born in Germany or an area that is or was otherwise considered German, without having the German citizenship

Ethnic Germans form an important minority group in several central and eastern European countries (Poland, Hungary, Romania, and the Commonwealth of Independent States) as well as in Namibia and southern Brazil.

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• Imperial Germans
• Auslandsdeutsche
• Volksdeutsche
• Baltic Germans
• German speaking community in Belgium
• German minority in Russia and Soviet Union
• South Tyrol
• Volga Germans
• Persecutions of Nazi collaborators

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