History of Germany
German history stretches from the Roman Era, colonialism of Africa, to its reunification in 1990. Martin Luther, Ludwig van Beethoven and Adolf Hitler are some of the historically significant persons that came from Germany.
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That would require a very lenghthy answer, so I would suggest that you read, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Before the...
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As regards similarities between Bismarck and Patel, I have no specialized knowledge. Both of them used a 3-stage system for...
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Hitler was a brilliant speaker and a good organiser and politician. He was a driven, unstable man, who believed that he had been...
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Pretty much what the Britons and Americans were doing. They were all developed societies, so therefore the upper class would have...
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It is neighbouring Germany from the East.
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NoteThis question was originally in the section on WW2 AnswerWith the Marshall Plan implemented after WW 2, the U.S. did...
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An "ace" was an Allied pilot who shot down five or more enemy planes. The German equivalent was a "Kanone", but a German pilot...
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May 7th 1945, between 2:39 and 2:41am
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Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) was a government-sponsored outbreak of violence against the Jews in Germany - a pogrom. It...
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The country is associated with causing World War 2 and with the carrying out the Holocaust. He was warned, politely, that he...
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The colours represent the Uniforms of the Lützow Freikorps.The Lützower Freikorps were fighters to free Germany from napoleons...
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It didn't really help anybody. The issue was that after World War II, the Allies divided Germany into administrative zones, with...
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sadness religions falling Hitler brought Germany out of a depression and improved there economy.
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Kaiser wilhelm II was 5 foot and 7 inches
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AnswerThe First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire. Various dates are given for its foundation. The date preferred by most German...
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They were not allowed to own anything with swastika on it. 1. Germany surrendered unconditionally. In other words, the Allies...
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1. After WW1 Germany was deeply divided between left and right. 2. In the aftermath of WW1 there was considerable violence and...
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Germany suffered a devastating defeat, and emerged morally bankrupt. Its reputation as a cilivized country was in tatters. The...
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Dutch Blitz was created around 1959, in or near Clarksboro, New Jersey, by Werner Mueller. Our family was given one of the...
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The Nazis very quickly set up networks of informers. Records of executions, for example, show there was considerably more...
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May I respectfully suggest the following: The Last Nazis by Perry Biddiscombe Charleston, S.C. Tempus...
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Towards the end of the 19th Century the world was pretty much carved up by the, then Super Powers, France and Britain. Other...
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No, there was no Jewish "war" against Germany. One only hears about this "war" in Nazi propaganda. The notion that "the Jews"...
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Get a copy of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer. Your local library might have one or could certainly...
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FRG Federal Republic of Germany. GDR was EAST GERMANY which was the German Democratic Republic.......
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They didn't. It is very important that you understand that. Germany's economic troubles after WWI were partly due to the damage...
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He just became leader because he wanted it. He told Dreschler that he wanted power and that if he didn't get it, then he'd form...
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Autarky means economic self-sufficiency. Throughout World War 2 Germany had major problems with food, oil, rubber and several...
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There was nothing uniform about treatment of Nazis. The party was outlawed in Germany. Many lower and mid level former Nazis took...
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They inspired the Russian Revolution and their uprising highlighted the instability of the Wiemar Republic
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From its founding in 1949 until reunification in 1990, the capital of West Germany was Bonn. It continued as the seat of...
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Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) was Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince von Bismarck, Count von Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke von Lauenburg. ...
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The indomitable spirit of the German folk, which remains undefeated. I'm puzzled by the expression 'the victim of...
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30 January1933, when Hitler was appointed German Chancellor by President Hindenburg. They remained in power till April-May 1945.
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on September 7, 1945, when Germany surrendered to the Allies. Actually, the Nazi party was officially disbanded on 7 May 1945....
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As our trenches was at the bottom and the Germans was on high ground al the water would run off and flood our trenches and roads...
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In 1872 Bismarck formed a 'league' of the conservative great powers of Europe - Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia. It is...
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Religion has played major parts in forming what Germany is today, including the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, the corruption...
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Deutsches Jungvolk, a youth organisation of the Hitler Youth for 10 - 14-year-olds, was founded in 1930. The aim of the...
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the 100 000 man German army of the weimar republic ___ The Reichswehr was the name of the German armed forces (as a whole) from...
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The Big 3 plus France had made the decision to divide up Germany during the Yalta conference because of political reasons,...
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The Nazi leadership consisted of ardent devotees of conspiracy theories that claimed that the Jews had caused Germany's defeat in...
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Shortly after coming to power the Nazi régime abolished the federal structure of the Reich and centralized power. (This process...
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Hitler become Chancellor of Germany legally but not Furher. Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany in January 1933...
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NOTE. This answer is my own assessment, based on work on the period. 1. Some of the territorial losses didn't in fact bother...
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The Treaty devastated Germany. It limited the army, squashed nationial pride and forced them to pay reparations that were...
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It cost vastly more than expected even in the Bonn government's 'worst case scenario'. There is still significant internal...
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Your question implies that empire building was something unique to Germany. German empire building was no different than that...
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1. Treaty of Versailles- Destroyed the German morale with humiliation, and the economy with war debts. 2. The worldwide...
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Germany was basically a military state where the General Staff (the central 'brains' of the army) ruled the roost and was...
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Prussia was the name of the second largest state in the Holy Roman Empire from about 1740-1800 and in the German Confederation of...
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The survival of the German people. Hitler and the NAZI party were elected because they promised to return Germany to the...
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Hitler was never elected president, he was appointed Reichskanzler by President Hindenburg, who was persuaded to by a powerful...
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Hitler did not like democracy. He was born in 1889 in a time of European monarchies and that is the only form of government that...
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AnswerThe problems were huge. After all, the country had just lost a major war, without the public having been warned that things...
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This is a moot question since by now, 61 years after fighting stopped, all those 'displaced' have either passed on or been...
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prussia is famous for their amazing organization and talented military
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The German states were first unified as a (federal) nation-state in 1871. The new Germany was in many respects an expanded...
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Paul von Hindenburg was born on October 2, 1847.
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This made Germany a federal republic, with two legislative chambers - one directly elected by the people, the other respresenting...
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After unification, Germany was the strongest military power on the continent. Germany's position geographically was between large...
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Could be, Alfred Rosenberg, the head of the Rosenberg office (Amt Rosenberg) was at least a racial Jew. ...
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Lieutenant General Kurt von Schleicher, for only 57 days! He was quoted to have said, "I held power for 57 days, and was betrayed...
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Dear Cecil: I've always wondered why there are such widely varying names in different languages for the country between France...
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This is a difficult question to answer as different Germans had different perceptions. For many Germans, the whole period from...
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It's unclear whether the question is about German unification in the nineteenth century (1864-71) or reunification in 1990.After...
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Germany still has a Chancellor. The current Chancellor is Angela Merkel of the CDU, who has been Chancellor since 2005.If you...
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From 1922 till the Nazis came to power (1933) relations between Germany and the Soviet Union were good. At first the outcast,...
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There's no single book, no 'key text'. "Mein Kampf", for example, contains a lot of autobiographical stuff by Hitler, much of it...
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1. Most of Germany east of the rivers Oder and Neisse was placed under Polish adminstration, and the northern third or so of East...
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AnswerTHe one Germany was spit up into two groups,the Soviets in the East and The United States,Britain,and France in the West.i...
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The French (and Belgians) claimed that Germany had defaulted on reparations by delivering 100,000 telegraph poles ten days late...
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From 1815-1866 Germany consisted of 39 states which for most purposes were sovereign. (Before about 1794 it had just over 360...
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they sold their wives for drugs!
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From the about 1890 onwards there was much resentment among many Germans that their country wasn't a 'world power'. What was...
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Germany and its economy were utterly exhausted. It had fought for over four years against an alliance that had more manpower and...
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AnswerPartially arrogance. The Germans believed that they could be far more efficient in managing the resources of Europe. One of...
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well ask.com isnt a place to find good answers
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The Nazi wanted to create a pure nation. A nation where there were no Jews, Gypsies, Negros, Handicap, mentally ill people, and...
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The word isn't actually an acronym but is based on syllables, so it's not a matter of each letter standing for something. (The...
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I believe that the German people felt 3 things when hit by the Treaty of Versailles. The Germans felt misled by the Kaiser. He...
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May 1933.
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During the 18th and 19th centuries - the period from 1700 to 1899 - lots of things were invented that made it easier to make...
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The short answer is no one.At the very end of WW2, Hitler and his closest advisors were gathered in an underground bunker in...
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Nobility can be inherited or earned. Georg Ludwig Trapp served in World War I as a U-boat commander. His exploits on the battle...
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Germany NowYou ask the question as if Germany were still at war in 2005. I find that very odd.Germany is a member of NATO and of...
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Prussia was the name of the kingdom established in 1701 by the Hohenzollern dynasty, the Electors of Brandenburg. As they weren't...
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Not perhaps as clear cut as it may first appear. Economically, I suspect that in 1914 Britain may still have just been the...
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Germany is particularly famous for its outstanding contributions to music (Techno Music, Beethoven, JS Bach and many others), to...
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Stage 1: 8 February 1933 Last significant anti-government demonstration. Police open fire without warning after a few minutes. ...
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Hitler used a variety of different methods of Propaganda in order to gain support for both himself and the Nazi Party. He used...
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