What's the correct way to set up Django translation?

Question

I've got an issue with translations not working on Django 1.6. I've added this to my settings.py:

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
ugettext = lambda s: s
LANGUAGES = (
    ('en', ugettext('English')),
    ('de', ugettext('German')),
)

Also added middlewares:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)

as well as to my *.py files whenever I'm using a string which shall be l10nd:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

My templates start with:

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}

and inside the template I used the trans placeholder. E.g.

{% trans "Register a tank" %}

I have provided translations in locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/django.po:

msgid "Register a tank"
msgstr "Einen neuen Tank anmelden"

My browser is set to request German content first: Browser settings

What did I miss?

P.S. The project I'm currently fuzzy around is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/frlan/blankspot

What's the correct way to set up Django translation?

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