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From Celtic times the early Germans settled from the Baltic all the way to the Black Sea until the great migrations of the 4-6th century AD.

A German mission was established in Onondaga County, New York in 1750, by Moravian missionaries from Pennsylvania, however, most of the earliest Germans to arrive in the area did not remain for very long.

The festival of Gemuelichkeit, conducted by the Turn Verein, was celebrated by early German's as a highlight during Thanksgiving.

Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the earliest Germans who were influenced by Buddhism.

The early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies (Dover, New Jersey, Dover Printing Company, 1895).

This view is based largely upon the supposition that common ownership of the land was practically unknown among the early Germans, and was by no means general among the early English.

In the early 1870s 2 Germans, Reichardt and Bohn, and later in 1878, a larger group of Germans led by Wissman had visited the area around Lake Mweru.

Images of the various gods played a part in worship, although Tacitus noted that whilst amongst the early Germans "effigies" were used and even taken into battle, they were not "human [in] appearance".

The early Germans originated on the North German Plain as well as southern Scandinavia.