Germany began to exert diplomatic pressure with military threats to annex territories which contained German-speaking minorities.
It wasn't until 1980 that there was a significant German-speaking minority.
This statute preserves the rights of the German-speaking minority in Italy.
There was only ever a small German-speaking minority and in 1938 the town eluded being incorporated into the Sudetenland.
The town has a large German-speaking minority who call it Wudersch.
During German rule, the newspapers mainly reflected the living reality and the view of the white German-speaking minority.
A German-speaking minority existed among the local nobles and those craftsmen, who had settled here as citizens of the major towns.
In the context of the 2007-2013 lifelong learning programme, all languages are eligible for financing, thus including German-speaking minorities.
Unfortunately one cannot say the same for the German-speaking minority in Slovenia.
The city was briefly bilingual, but since 1920, the German-speaking minority has continuously decreased.