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German to English History Translation Glossary

German term English translation
Liktorenbündel fasces
Entered by: Christine Slattery
lohmueller bark grinder
los sein free of
Entered by: Susan Madden
loskaufen redeem
Losorakel divination by lot
Entered by: Valeska Maier-Wörz
Luftkriegsflüchtlinge air raid refugees/evacuees
Entered by: Olaf Reibedanz
Luginsland lookout post or point
Maß der Hand measure of the hand
Entered by: Rebecca Garber
Mache er mir tüchtige, aufrechte und ehrliche Männer! Make these men brave, upright and honourable
Machtergreifung seizure of power
Machtkartell oligarchy
Maillebahn Maillebahn ("ball-mallet alley")
Mais in Züpfen corn plait
Marktrichter market reeve
Marktzwang confinement of trade
Martersäule Pillar of the Scourging
Mächtekonzert power relations/balance of power
möglichst vieler Heiliger teilhaftig werden to have as many saints as possible intercede/pray for them
Entered by: Henry Schroeder
Mündigkeit free will, independence, personal responsibility, maturity
Meierhof tenant farm
Mienenarbeit / Minenarbeit sabotage / subterfuge
Minderfreie tenant farmer/serf
mit eingerechnet including
Mobilisierungserklärung Mobilisation order
Moll in the Moll work (slave labour) detachment
Entered by: Jonathan Whiteley
Muschelkalkböden shell limestone soils
Museumswesen museum studies
Entered by: Cathrin Cordes
Nationalerwecker national awakener
Neue und Neueste Geschichte Modern and recent history
Niedere Vereinigung Lower Union
Nordstaatenarmee Union Army, Federal Army
Normtreue obedience
Notablenversamlung Assembly of the Nobility
Oberdeutschland, Oberdeutsch southern Germany
Oberlandesbaudirektor senior building director of the country
Oekonom auf dem Venissen-Gute zu Parzham Husbandman on the Vennisse Estate at Parzham
Entered by: Timothy Wood
Olims Zeiten as old as Adam/Methuselah / since the year dot
original quote On the Generation of Animals, by Aristotle
Palast der Unterhaltungen The Amusement Palace
Papstkirche Papal Church
Entered by: Mario Marcolin
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