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History of Germany

Index History of Germany

The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France), which he had conquered. [1]

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Barclay, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Die Deutschen, Dorothy Thompson, Drang nach Osten, Dresden, Duchy of Brunswick, Eberhard Jäckel, Eberhard Kolb, Economic history of Germany, ..., Elberfeld uprising, Ernest, Elector of Saxony, Ernst Röhm, Ethnic groups in Omaha, Nebraska, Evangelical Church in Germany, Evangelical United Brethren Church, Evil Queen (Disney), Ewald Frie, Feudal fragmentation, Foreign relations of Germany, Frank Jacob (historian), Frank McDonough, Frank Tipton, Frankfurt Parliament, Free State of Prussia, Freihaus, French Section of the Workers' International, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Friedrich Kohlrausch (educator), Fritz Stern, Gans zu Putlitz, Gerald Feldman, Gerhard Hirschfeld, Gerhard Ritter, German Confederation, German Emergency Acts, German Emperor, German History (journal), German presidential election, 1919, German presidential election, 1925, German studies, German Texan, Germanic-Roman contacts, Germanophile, Germans, Germans in Omaha, Nebraska, Germany (disambiguation), Germany: Memories of a Nation, Germany–Holy See relations, Germany–Israel relations, Germany–Japan relations, Germany–Russia relations, Giles MacDonogh, Gisela Weimann, Goethe-Institut, New York, Gordon A. Craig, Goseck (monastery), Gothic and Vandal warfare, Graf, Hans Rothfels, Harold James (historian), Harold Marcuse, Harry Ziegler, Heimat (film series), Helmut Walser Smith, Henry Ashby Turner, Herrschaft (territory), Historiography of Germany, Historiography of World War II, History of Austria, History of Bavaria, History of Belgium, History of Berlin, History of East Germany, History of Estonia, History of German foreign policy, History of insurance, History of Pomerania, History of Rome (disambiguation), History of serfdom, History of Sweden, History of Sweden (1611–48), History of the Catholic Church in Germany, History of the Netherlands, History of the North Sea, Holger Herwig, Holy Roman Empire, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Index of Germany-related articles, Index of history articles, Institute of Contemporary History (Munich), Insurance, International Summer University (ISU) Kassel, James Westfall Thompson, Jane Caplan, Jürgen Habermas, Johann Gottlob Lehmann (scientist), John Gillis (historian), John H. Morrow Jr., Josef Schulz, Julian Wagstaff, Karl Müllenhoff, Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch, Kingdom of Bavaria, Kingdom of Westphalia, Leopold von Ranke, Lesesucht, Lewis H. Gann, Liberalism in Germany, Liberec Region, Library of Congress Classification, Library of Congress Classification:Class D -- History, General and Old World, List of Dewey Decimal classes, List of German films of 1895–1918, List of German monarchs in 1918, List of historians by area of study, List of ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany, List of monarchs of Prussia, List of North American ethnic and religious fraternal orders, List of Wesleyan University people, Lorsch codex, Lothar Hempel, Lothar Machtan, Ludwig Riess, Martin Luther, Mary Lindemann, Medieval cuisine, Michael Stürmer, Michael Toch, Miechów, Lubusz Voivodeship, Military history of Germany, Millennialism, Ministry of the Reichswehr, Modern history of Germany, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Mstislav Keldysh, Name of France, Name of the Franks, Narcissus and Goldmund, Nazi archaeology, Nazi Germany, Norman Stone, November 9 in German history, Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral, Organisation Consul, Oroonoko, Otto Franke (sinologist), Outline of the Middle Ages, Pars pro toto, Patrick Major, Paul Lejeune-Jung, Peace movement, Penny, President of Germany (1919–1945), President of the German Bundesrat, Prostitution in Germany, Prussia, Racism in Germany, Radziwiłł family, Raising a Flag over the Reichstag, Reich, Reichsexekution, Reichskommissar, Reichstag building, Religion in Germany, Religious aspects of Nazism, Responsibility for the Holocaust, Richard Breitman, Richard J. Evans, Richard Lucae, Ringstraße (Wiesbaden), River Witham sword, Robber baron (industrialist), Robert Blum, Robert Gerwarth, Roll of arms, Rote Insel, Rudolf Usinger, Sean McMeekin, Sebastian Haffner, Second Merkel cabinet, Shaman of Oberstdorf, Silesian Piasts, Sonderweg, Stuttgart, Text publication society, The Church (1989 film), The Course of German History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Theodore S. Hamerow, Thomas Koschwitz, Timeline of German history, Tragedy of the anticommons, Tyndall, Ulrich Herbert, Unsere Besten, Ute Frevert, Walhalla memorial, Walter Laqueur, Wartburg, Weimar, Weimar culture, Westphalia, Wilhelminism, William B. Bader, William W. Hagen, William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Wolfgang Mommsen, Wolfgang Weyrauch, Year of the Three Emperors, 1920s Berlin, 1954 FIFA World Cup Final, 2011 in Germany. Expand index (203 more) »

A. J. P. Taylor

Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy.

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Abolition of Prussia

The formal abolition of Prussia (Abschaffung von Preussen) occurred on 25 February 1947, by decree of the Allied Control Council.

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Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel

Adolph Friedrich Johann (born 1809 in Biendorf, d. 1872 in Berlin) was a German (Prussian) antiquarian, industrialist and politician, author of Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis, a collection of primary documents on the history of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, in 36 volumes.

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Aetites

In the magico-medical tradition of Europe and the Near East, the aetites (singular in Latin) or aetite (anglicized) is a stone used to promote childbirth.

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Age of Liberty

In Swedish and Finnish history, the Age of Liberty (Age of Freedom) (Frihetstiden) is a half-century-long period of parliamentary governance and increasing civil rights, beginning with Charles XII's death in 1718 and ending with Gustav III's self-coup in 1772.

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Alamanni (surname)

Alamanni is the name of a noble family of Florence.

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Allied Control Council

The Allied Control Council or Allied Control Authority, known in the German language as the Alliierter Kontrollrat and also referred to as the Four Powers (Vier Mächte), was a military occupation governing body of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany and Austria after the end of World War II in Europe.

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André Chéradame

André Chéradame (1871–1948) was a French journalist and scholar from the École Libre des Sciences Politiques.

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Andreas Hillgruber

Andreas Fritz Hillgruber (18 January 1925 – 8 May 1989) was a conservative German historian.

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Anne Birk

Anne Birk (real name: Rosemarie Tietz, maiden name Schumacher) (* August 20, 1942 in Trossingen, Germany; † July 29, 2009 in Esslingen, Germany) was a German author.

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Anti-Germans (political current)

Anti-German (Antideutsch) is the generic name applied to a variety of theoretical and political tendencies within the radical left mainly in Germany and Austria.

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Antiqua–Fraktur dispute

The Antiqua–Fraktur dispute was a typographical dispute in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany.

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Ashkenaz

Ashkenaz in the Hebrew Bible is one of the descendants of Noah.

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Ashkenazi Jews

Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim (אַשְׁכְּנַזִּים, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation:, singular:, Modern Hebrew:; also), are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium.

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Åke

Åke is a masculine Swedish given name, possibly derived from the medieval Germanic name Anicho, derived from ano meaning "ancestor".

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Bahá'í Faith in Germany

Though mentioned in the Bahá'í (Bahaitum) literature in the 19th century, the Bahá'í Faith in Germany begins in the early 20th century when two emigrants to the United States returned on prolonged visits to Germany bringing their newfound religion.

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Baltic languages

The Baltic languages belong to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Baselard

The baselard (also basilard, baslard, in Middle French also badelare, bazelaire and variants, latininzed baselardus, basolardus etc., in Middle High German beseler, baseler, basler, pasler; baslermesser) is a historical type of dagger or short sword of the Late Middle Ages.

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Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany

The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Bavarian Soviet Republic

The Bavarian Soviet Republic (Bayerische Räterepublik)Hollander, Neil (2013) Elusive Dove: The Search for Peace During World War I. McFarland.

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Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer

Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer (24 January 1833 in Altenburg – 1 March 1901 in Heidelberg) was a German historian.

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Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Black Rednecks and White Liberals is a collection of six essays by Thomas Sowell.

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Brandenburg Navy

The Brandenburg Navy was the navy of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in Germany from the 16th century to 1701, when it became part of the Prussian Navy.

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Cartel des Gauches

The Lefts Cartel (Cartel des gauches) was the name of the governmental alliance between the Radical-Socialist Party and the socialist French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) after World War I (1914–18), which lasted until the end of the Popular Front (1936–38).

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Censorship in Germany

Censorship in Germany has taken many forms during the history of the region.

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Centre Party (Germany)

The German Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei or just Zentrum) is a lay Catholic political party in Germany, primarily influential during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic.

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Centum gravamina teutonicae nationis

The Centum gravamina teutonicae nationis, or Gravamina for short, was a list of "one hundred grievances of the German nation" directed at the Catholic Church in Germany, brought forward by the German princes, Fürsten, assembled at the Diet of Nuremberg in 1522–23.

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Chancellor of Germany (1949–present)

The Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (in German called Bundeskanzler(in), meaning "Federal Chancellor", or in) for short) is, under the German 1949 Constitution, the head of government of Germany.

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Charlemagne

Charlemagne or Charles the Great (Karl der Große, Carlo Magno; 2 April 742 – 28 January 814), numbered Charles I, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Holy Roman Emperor from 800.

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Christian Saehrendt

Christian Saehrendt (born 29 January 1968 in Kassel) is a German Art Historian.

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Christof Mauch

Christof Mauch (born 9 February 1960 in Sindelfingen, Germany) is a German historian, presently director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany, and since 2007 professor of American Cultural History and Transatlantic Relations at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen.

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Christoph M. Kimmich

Christoph M. Kimmich (born January 16, 1939) is a German-American historian.

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Christopher Clark

Sir Christopher Munro Clark, FBA (born 14 March 1960) is an Australian historian working in England.

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Cologne Ring

The Cologne Ring (known in German as: Kölner Ringe) is a semi-circular, some 6 km long urban boulevard in Innenstadt, Cologne and the city's busiest and most prominent street system.

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Confederation of the Rhine

The Confederation of the Rhine (Rheinbund; French: officially États confédérés du Rhin, but in practice Confédération du Rhin) was a confederation of client states of the First French Empire.

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Cord Widderich

Cord Widderich (alternative spelling: Kort Wiederich) (died 1447) was a pirate active during political conflicts between Dithmarschen and North Frisia in the early fifteenth century.

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Cornell University Department of History

The Cornell University Department of History is an academic department in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University that focuses on the study of history.

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County Palatine of Tübingen

The County Palatine of Tübingen was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the medieval period.

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Dalberg, Rhineland-Palatinate

Dalberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Daphne Berdahl

Daphne Berdahl (June 14, 1964 – October 5, 2007) was an anthropologist known for her work on Eastern Germany and Post-socialist Europe.

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David E. Barclay

Dr.

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Deutsches Historisches Museum

The German Historical Museum (Deutsches Historisches Museum), known by the acronym DHM, is a museum in Berlin, Germany devoted to German history.

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Die Deutschen

Die Deutschen (“The Germans”) is a German television documentary produced for ZDF that first aired from October to November 2008.

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Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Celene Thompson (9 July 1893 – 30 January 1961) was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by ''Time'' magazine as the second most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Drang nach Osten

Drang nach Osten ("Drive to the East",Ulrich Best, Transgression as a Rule: German–Polish cross-border cooperation, border discourse and EU-enlargement, 2008, p. 58,, "push eastward",Jerzy Jan Lerski, Piotr Wróbel, Richard J. Kozicki, Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945, 1996, p. 118,, "drive toward the East"Edmund Jan Osmańczyk, Anthony Mango, Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements, 2003, p. 579,, or "desire to push East") was a term coined in the 19th century to designate German expansion into Slavic lands.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper and Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany, Drážďany, Drezno) is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

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Duchy of Brunswick

The Duchy of Brunswick (Herzogtum Braunschweig) was a historical German state.

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Eberhard Jäckel

Eberhard Jäckel (June 29, 1929 – August 15, 2017) was a Social Democratic German historian, noted for his studies of Adolf Hitler's role in German history.

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Eberhard Kolb

Professor Eberhard Kolb (born 8 August 1933, Stuttgart) is a historian, best known for his research of the German history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Economic history of Germany

Germany before 1800 was heavily rural, with some urban trade centers.

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Elberfeld uprising

The Elberfeld uprising was one of the revolutionary movements in Germany in 1849, part of the German Constitution campaign.

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Ernest, Elector of Saxony

Ernest (Meissen, 24 March 1441 – 26 August 1486 in Colditz) was Elector of Saxony from 1464 to 1486.

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Ernst Röhm

Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer and an early member of the Nazi Party.

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Ethnic groups in Omaha, Nebraska

Various ethnic groups in Omaha, Nebraska have lived in the city since its organization by Anglo-Americans in 1854.

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Evangelical Church in Germany

The Evangelical Church in Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated EKD) is a federation of twenty Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and United (Prussian Union) Protestant regional churches and denominations in Germany, which collectively encompasses the vast majority of Protestants in that country.

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Evangelical United Brethren Church

The Evangelical United Brethren Church (EUB) was an American Protestant church formed in 1946, by the merger of the Evangelical Church (formerly the Evangelical Association) and the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (not to be confused with the still current Church of the United Brethren in Christ).

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Evil Queen (Disney)

The Evil Queen, also known as the Wicked Queen or just the Queen, and sometimes instead identified by her given name as Queen Grimhilde, is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and a villain character in the extended Disney's ''Snow White'' franchise.

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Ewald Frie

Ewald Frie (born 10 October 1962 in Nottuln) is a German historian.

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Feudal fragmentation

Feudal fragmentation is stage in the development of certain feudal states, in which it is split into smaller regional state structures, each characterized by significant autonomy if not outright independence and ruled by a high-ranking noble such as a prince or a duke.

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Foreign relations of Germany

The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is a Central European country and member of the European Union, G4, G8, the G20, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

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Frank Jacob (historian)

Frank Jacob (born 8 August 1984 in Schmalkalden, Germany) is a German historian and japanologist.

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Frank McDonough

Frank McDonough is a British historian of the Third Reich and international history.

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Frank Tipton

Frank Ben Tipton (born in California) is an Australian historian and Emeritus Professor at The University of Sydney Business School.

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Frankfurt Parliament

The Frankfurt Parliament (Frankfurter Nationalversammlung, literally Frankfurt National Assembly) was the first freely elected parliament for all of Germany, elected on 1 May 1848 (see German federal election, 1848).

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Free State of Prussia

The Free State of Prussia (Freistaat Preußen) was a German state formed after the abolition of the Kingdom of Prussia in the aftermath of the First World War.

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Freihaus

A Freihaus (German for "free house") was a house that, although physically within the city walls of a medieval or early modern city, was legally outside it.

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French Section of the Workers' International

The French Section of the Workers' International (Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière, SFIO) was a French socialist political party founded in 1905 and replaced in 1969 by the current Socialist Party (PS).

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Friedrich Carl von Savigny

Friedrich Carl von Savigny (21 February 1779 – 25 October 1861) was a German jurist and historian.

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Friedrich Kohlrausch (educator)

Heinrich Friedrich Theodor Kohlrausch (November 5, 1780 – January 30, 1867) was a German educator and historian.

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Fritz Stern

Fritz Richard Stern (February 2, 1926 – May 18, 2016) was a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography.

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Gans zu Putlitz

The Gans Edle Herren zu Putlitz (Edle Herren.

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Gerald Feldman

Gerald Donald Feldman (April 24, 1937 – October 31, 2007) was an American historian who specialized in 20th-century German history.

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Gerhard Hirschfeld

Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 19 September 1946 in Plettenberg, Germany) is a German historian and author.

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Gerhard Ritter

Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter (6 April 1888, Bad Sooden-Allendorf – 1 July 1967, Freiburg) was a nationalist-conservative German historian, who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956.

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German Confederation

The German Confederation (Deutscher Bund) was an association of 39 German-speaking states in Central Europe, created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to coordinate the economies of separate German-speaking countries and to replace the former Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved in 1806.

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German Emergency Acts

The German Emergency Acts (Notstandsgesetze) were passed on 30 May 1968 at the time of the First Grand Coalition between the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

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German Emperor

The German Emperor (Deutscher Kaiser) was the official title of the head of state and hereditary ruler of the German Empire.

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German History (journal)

German History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of German history.

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German presidential election, 1919

The presidential election (Reichspräsidentenwahl) of 1919 was the first election to the office of President of the Reich (Reichspräsident), Germany's head of state during the 1919-1933 Weimar Republic.

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German presidential election, 1925

Presidential elections were held in Germany on 29 March 1925, with a second round run-off on 26 April.

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German studies

German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms.

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German Texan

German Texan (Deutschtexaner) is both a term to describe immigrants who arrived in the Republic of Texas from Germany from the 1830s onward and an ethnic category which includes their descendants in today's state of Texas.

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Germanic-Roman contacts

The contact between Germanic tribes and Romans can be divided into four aspects as defined by archaeologist Are Kolberg: the military aspect, the trade aspect, the gift aspect and the plunder aspect.

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Germanophile

A Germanophile, Teutonophile or Teutophile is a person who is fond of German culture, German people and Germany in general or who exhibits German nationalism in spite of not even being either an ethnic German or a German citizen.

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Germans

Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history.

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Germans in Omaha, Nebraska

Germans in Omaha immigrated to the city in Nebraska from its earliest days of founding in 1854, in the years after the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.

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Germany (disambiguation)

Germany (officially the Federal Republic of Germany) is a European country.

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Germany: Memories of a Nation

Germany: Memories of a Nation is a 2014 book by British historian and then director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor.

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Germany–Holy See relations

Formal diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the current Federal Republic of Germany date to the 1951 and the end of the Allied occupation.

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Germany–Israel relations

Germany–Israel relations refers to the diplomatic relationship between Israel and Germany.

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Germany–Japan relations

The relations between Germany and Japan (Nichidokukankei, Deutsch-japanische Beziehungen) were officially established in 1861 with the first ambassadorial visit to Japan from Prussia (which predated the formation of the German Empire in 1866/1870).

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Germany–Russia relations

Germany–Russia relations display cyclical patterns, moving back and forth from cooperation and alliance to strain and to total warfare.

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Giles MacDonogh

Giles MacDonogh (born 1955) is a British writer, historian and translator.

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Gisela Weimann

Gisela Weimann (born June 10, 1943) is a German multimedia artist who lives and works in Berlin.

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Goethe-Institut, New York

The Goethe-Institut, New York is an organization that is located at 30 Irving Place in Manhattan, New York City.

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Gordon A. Craig

Gordon Alexander Craig (November 13, 1913 – October 30, 2005) was a Scottish-American historian of German history and of diplomatic history.

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Goseck (monastery)

Goseck, a monastery built on the foundations of a castle, as well as the vineyard of Dechantenberg is located in the municipality of Goseck of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.

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Gothic and Vandal warfare

The Goths, Gepids, Vandals, and Burgundians were East Germanic groups who appear in Roman records in Late Antiquity.

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Graf

Graf (male) or Gräfin (female) is a historical title of the German nobility, usually translated as "count".

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Hans Rothfels

Hans Rothfels (12 April 1891 – 22 June 1976) was a nationalist conservative German historian.

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Harold James (historian)

Harold James (born 19 January 1956 in Bedford, United Kingdom) is an economic historian specializing in the history of Germany and European economic history.

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Harold Marcuse

Harold Marcuse (born November 15, 1957 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is an American professor of modern and contemporary German history.

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Harry Ziegler

Harry Ziegler is a historian, currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln.

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Heimat (film series)

Heimat is the title of a series of films, for a total of 32 episodes, written and directed by Edgar Reitz, which view life in Germany between 1840s to 2000 through the eyes of a family from the Hunsrück area of the Rhineland.

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Helmut Walser Smith

Helmut Walser Smith is Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Director of the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies at Vanderbilt University.

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Henry Ashby Turner

Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (April 4, 1932 – December 17, 2008) was an American historian of Germany who was a professor at Yale University for over forty years.

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Herrschaft (territory)

In the German feudal system, a Herrschaft was the fiefdom of a lord, who in this area exercised full feudal rights.

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Historiography of Germany

The historiography of Germany deals with the manner in which historians have depicted, analyzed and debated the History of Germany.

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Historiography of World War II

The Historiography of World War II is the study of how historians portray the causes, conduct, and outcomes of World War II.

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History of Austria

The history of Austria covers the history of Austria and its predecessor states, from the early Stone Age to the present state.

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History of Bavaria

The history of Bavaria stretches from its earliest settlement and its formation as a stem duchy in the 6th century through its inclusion in the Holy Roman Empire to its status as an independent kingdom and finally as a large Bundesland (state) of the modern Federal Republic of Germany.

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History of Belgium

The history of Belgium predates the founding of the modern state of that name in 1830.

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History of Berlin

The history of Berlin starts with its foundation in the 13th century.

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History of East Germany

The German Democratic Republic (GDR), Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), often known in English as East Germany, existed from 1949 to 1990.

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History of Estonia

The history of Estonia forms a part of the history of Europe.

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History of German foreign policy

The History of German foreign policy covers diplomatic developments and international history since 1871.

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History of insurance

The history of insurance traces the development of the modern business of insurance against risks, especially regarding cargo, property, death, automobile accidents, and medical treatment.

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History of Pomerania

The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polans rulers.

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History of Rome (disambiguation)

The History of Rome may concern: I. celebrated Histories of ancient Rome; or, II.

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History of serfdom

Like slavery, serfdom has a long history, dating to the Ancient Times.

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History of Sweden

During the 11th and 12th centuries, Sweden gradually became a unified Christian kingdom that later included what is today Finland.

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History of Sweden (1611–48)

During the 17th century, despite having scarcely more than 1 million inhabitants, Sweden emerged to have greater foreign influence, after winning wars against Denmark–Norway, the Holy Roman Empire, Russia, and the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania.

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History of the Catholic Church in Germany

The history of Roman Catholicism in Germany should be read in parallel with the History of Germany as it was progressively confused, in competition with, oppressed by and distinguished from, the state.

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History of the Netherlands

The history of the Netherlands is the history of seafaring people thriving on a lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe.

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History of the North Sea

The North Sea, though often an area of conflict, has an extensive history of maritime commerce and trade routes between its coastal nations whose economies and industries were also able to exploit its resources.

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Holger Herwig

Dr.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium; Heiliges Römisches Reich) was a multi-ethnic but mostly German complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806.

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Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Houston Stewart Chamberlain (9 September 1855 – 9 January 1927) was a British-born German philosopher who wrote works about political philosophy and natural science; he is described by Michael D. Biddiss, a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, as a "racialist writer".

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Index of Germany-related articles

Topics related to Germany (sorted alphabetically) include.

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Index of history articles

History is the study of the past.

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Institute of Contemporary History (Munich)

The Institute of Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte) in Munich was conceived in 1947 under the name Deutsches Institut für Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Zeit ("German Institute of the History of the National Socialist Era").

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Insurance

Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss.

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International Summer University (ISU) Kassel

International Summer University (ISU) Kassel is a short-term program that is held during the summer season by the University of Kassel (Uni Kassel) every year.

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James Westfall Thompson

James Westfall Thompson (1869–1941) was an American historian specializing in the history of medieval and early modern Europe, particularly of the Holy Roman Empire and France.

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Jane Caplan

Jane Caplan is an academic and historian specialising in Nazi Germany and the history of the documentation of individual identity.

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Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas (born 18 June 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

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Johann Gottlob Lehmann (scientist)

Johann Gottlieb Lehmann (4 August 1719 in Langenhennersdorf, Saxony – 22 January 1767 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a German mineralogist and geologist noted for his work and research contributions to the geologic record leading to the development of stratigraphy.

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John Gillis (historian)

John R. Gillis is Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University.

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John H. Morrow Jr.

Dr.

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Josef Schulz

Josef Schulz (born 1909 or 1910, Barmen, died 20 July 1941, Balkans, Serbia) also spelled Joseph Schultz (Jozef Šulc), was a German soldier of the 714th Infantry Division stationed in the Balkans, Serbia during World War II.

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Julian Wagstaff

Julian Wagstaff (born 1970) is a Scottish composer of classical music, musical theatre and opera.

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Karl Müllenhoff

Karl Viktor Müllenhoff (born September 8, 1818, in Marne, Duchy of Holstein; died February 19, 1884, in Berlin) was a German philologist and a student of Germanic antiquities.

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Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch

Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch (22 December 1818, Zerbst – 20 June 1880, Berlin) was a German historian known for his studies of ancient Rome and medieval Germany.

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Kingdom of Bavaria

The Kingdom of Bavaria (Königreich Bayern) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918.

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Kingdom of Westphalia

The Kingdom of Westphalia was a kingdom in Germany, with a population of 2.6 million, that existed from 1807 to 1813.

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Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke (21 December 1795 – 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history.

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Lesesucht

Die Lesewut (German for the reading craze) or Die Lesesucht (reading mania), are terms that describe a period in German history beginning in the eighteenth century.

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Lewis H. Gann

Lewis Henry Gann (1924–1997) was an academic historian, political scientist and archivist.

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Liberalism in Germany

This article aims to give an historical outline of liberalism in Germany.

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Liberec Region

Liberec Region (Liberecký kraj) is an administrative unit (Czech: kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the northernmost part of its historical region of Bohemia.

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Library of Congress Classification

The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress.

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Library of Congress Classification:Class D -- History, General and Old World

Class D: History, General and Old World is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system.

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List of Dewey Decimal classes

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is structured around ten main classes covering the entire world of knowledge; each main class is further structured into ten hierarchical divisions, each having ten sections of increasing specificity.

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List of German films of 1895–1918

This is a list of the most notable films produced in the German Empire until 1918, in year order.

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List of German monarchs in 1918

The term German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich) commonly refers to Germany, from its foundation as a unified nation-state on January 18, 1871, until the abdication of its last Kaiser, Wilhelm II, on November 9, 1918.

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List of historians by area of study

This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study.

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List of ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany

List of past ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany (1945-present).

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List of monarchs of Prussia

The monarchs of Prussia were members of the House of Hohenzollern who were the hereditary rulers of the former German state of Prussia from its founding in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia.

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List of North American ethnic and religious fraternal orders

Below is an annotated list of American ethnic and religious fraternal orders;.

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List of Wesleyan University people

This is a partial list of notable people affiliated with Wesleyan University.

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Lorsch codex

The Lorsch Codex (Chronicon Laureshamense, Lorscher Codex, Codex Laureshamensis) is an important historical document created between about 1175 to 1195 AD in the Monastery of Saint Nazarius in Lorsch, Germany.

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Lothar Hempel

Lothar Hempel (born 1966 in Cologne) is a German artist based in Berlin.

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Lothar Machtan

Lothar Machtan (born 4 October 1949) is a German historian, writer, as well as Professor of Modern and Current History at the University of Bremen.

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Ludwig Riess

Ludwig Riess (December 1, 1861 – December 27, 1928) was a German-born historian and educator, noted for his work in late 19th century Japan.

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther, (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.

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Mary Lindemann

Mary Lindemann (born 1949) is an American historian, professor of history and chair of the History Department at the University of Miami.

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Medieval cuisine

Medieval cuisine includes foods, eating habits, and cooking methods of various European cultures during the Middle Ages, which lasted from the fifth to the fifteenth century.

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Michael Stürmer

Michael Stürmer (born September 29, 1938) is a right-wing German historian arguably best known for his role in the Historikerstreit of the 1980s, for his geographical interpretation of German history and for an admiring 2008 biography of the Russian politician Vladimir Putin.

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Michael Toch

Michael Toch (born 1946) is professor of medieval history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Miechów, Lubusz Voivodeship

Miechów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sulęcin, within Sulęcin County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.

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Military history of Germany

I found the two German commanders documents of 1920 during the digging land in ukraine contact number 00380638775589 While German-speaking people have a long history, Germany as a nation state dates only from 1871.

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Millennialism

Millennialism (from millennium, Latin for "a thousand years"), or chiliasm (from the Greek equivalent), is a belief advanced by some Christian denominations that a Golden Age or Paradise will occur on Earth in which Christ will reign for 1000 years prior to the final judgment and future eternal state (the "World to Come") of the New Heavens and New Earth.

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Ministry of the Reichswehr

In the history of Germany, the Ministry of the Reichswehr or Reich Ministry of Defence (Reichswehrministerium) was the defence ministry of the Weimar Republic and the early Third Reich.

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Modern history of Germany

Articles on the modern history of Germany.

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Monumenta Germaniae Historica

The Monumenta Germaniae Historica (frequently abbreviated MGH in bibliographies and lists of sources) is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of German history (broadly conceived) from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500.

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Mstislav Keldysh

Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (Мстисла́в Все́володович Ке́лдыш; – 24 June 1978) was a Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946), President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1961–1975), three times Hero of Socialist Labor (1956, 1961, 1971), fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1968).

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Name of France

The name France comes from Latin Francia ("land of the Franks").

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Name of the Franks

The name of the Franks (Latin Franci) and the derived names of Francia and Franconia (and the adjectives Frankish and Franconian) are derived from the name given to a Germanic tribal confederation which emerged in the 3rd century.

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Narcissus and Goldmund

Narcissus and Goldmund (also published as Death and the Lover) is a novel written by the German–Swiss author Hermann Hesse which was first published in 1930.

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Nazi archaeology

Nazi archaeology was the movement led by various Nazi leaders, such as Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, archaeologists and other scholars to research the German past in order to strengthen nationalism.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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Norman Stone

Norman Stone (born 8 March 1941) is a Scottish historian and author.

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November 9 in German history

9 November has been the date of several important events in German history.

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Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral

The Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral (Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland, OZAK; or colloquially: Operationszone Adria); Zona d'operazioni del Litorale adriatico; Operativna zona Jadransko primorje; Operacijska zona Jadransko primorje) was a Nazi German district on the northern Adriatic coast created during World War II in 1943. It was formed out of territories that were previously under Fascist Italian control until its takeover by Germany. It included parts of present-day Italian, Slovenian, and Croatian territories. The area was administered as territory attached, but not incorporated to, the Reichsgau of Carinthia. The capital of the zone was the city of Trieste.

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Organisation Consul

Organisation Consul (O.C.) was an ultra-nationalist force operating in Germany in 1921 and 1922.

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Oroonoko

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640–1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year.

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Otto Franke (sinologist)

Otto Franke (27 September 1863 – 5 August 1946) was a German diplomat, sinologist, and historian.

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Outline of the Middle Ages

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Middle Ages: Middle Ages – periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century.

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Pars pro toto

Pars pro toto, Latin for "a part (taken) for the whole", is a figure of speech where the name of a portion of an object, place, or concept represents its entirety.

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Patrick Major

Patrick N. Major (born Surrey, 1964) is a professor of history at the University of Reading.

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Paul Lejeune-Jung

Paul Adolf Franz Lejeune-Jung, (actually Lejeune genannt Jung, meaning called Jung) (16 March 1882 in Cologne – 8 September 1944 in Berlin, executed) was a German economist, politician, syndic in the pulp industry, and resistance fighter against Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

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Peace movement

A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, and is often linked to the goal of achieving world peace.

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Penny

A penny is a coin (. pennies) or a unit of currency (pl. pence) in various countries.

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President of Germany (1919–1945)

The Reichspräsident was the German head of state under the Weimar constitution, which was officially in force from 1919 to 1945.

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President of the German Bundesrat

In Germany, the President of the Bundesrat or President of the Federal Council (German: Bundesratspräsident) is the chairperson or speaker of the Bundesrat (Federal Council).

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Prostitution in Germany

Prostitution in Germany is legal, as are all aspects of the sex industry, including brothels, advertisement, and job offers through HR companies.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen) was a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525 with a duchy centred on the region of Prussia.

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Racism in Germany

Racism in German history is inextricably linked to the Herero and Namaqua genocide in colonial times.

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Radziwiłł family

The Radziwiłł family (Radvila; Радзівіл, Radzivił; Radziwill) was a powerful magnate family originating from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

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Raising a Flag over the Reichstag

Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is a historic World War II photograph, taken during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945.

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Reich

Reich is a German word literally meaning "realm".

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Reichsexekution

In German history, a Reichsexekution (sometimes "Reich execution" in English) was an imperial or federal intervention against a member state, using military force if necessary.

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Reichskommissar

Reichskommissar (rendered as Commissioner of the Empire or as Reich - or Imperial Commissioner), in German history, was an official gubernatorial title used for various public offices during the period of the German Empire and the Nazi Third Reich.

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Reichstag building

The Reichstag (Reichstagsgebäude; officially: Deutscher Bundestag - Plenarbereich Reichstagsgebäude) is a historic edifice in Berlin, Germany, constructed to house the Imperial Diet (German: Reichstag) of the German Empire.

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Religion in Germany

Christianity is the largest religion in Germany, comprising an estimated ~58.5% of the country's population in 2016.

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Religious aspects of Nazism

Historians, political scientists and philosophers have studied Nazism with a specific focus on its religious and pseudo-religious aspects.

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Responsibility for the Holocaust

Responsibility for the Holocaust is the subject of an ongoing historical debate that has spanned several decades.

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Richard Breitman

Richard David Breitman, born in 1947, is an American historian best known for his study of the Holocaust.

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Richard J. Evans

Sir Richard John Evans (born 29 September 1947), is a British historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe with a focus on Germany.

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Richard Lucae

Richard Lucae (12 April 1829 – 26 November 1877; full name: Johannes Theodor Volcmar Richard Lucae) was a German architect and from 1873 director of the Berliner Bauakademie.

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Ringstraße (Wiesbaden)

The Ringstraße is a semi-circular, some 3 km long urban boulevard in the centre of Wiesbaden and the city's busiest and most prominent street system.

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River Witham sword

There are two notable swords known recovered from the River Witham, both kept in the British Museum.

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Robber baron (industrialist)

"Robber baron" is a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich.

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Robert Blum

Robert Blum (10 November 1807 – 9 November 1848) was a German democratic politician, publicist, poet, publisher, revolutionist and member of the National Assembly of 1848.

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Robert Gerwarth

Robert Gerwarth (born 12 February 1976) is a professor of European history, with an emphasis on German history.

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Roll of arms

A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing the arms.

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Rote Insel

Rote Insel (literally, Red Island) is the name colloquially given to a neighbourhood in the Schöneberg district of the German capital, Berlin.

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Rudolf Usinger

Rudolf August Usinger (7 July 1835 – 31 May 1874) was a German historian born in Nienburg.

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Sean McMeekin

Sean McMeekin (born May 10, 1974 in Idaho) is an American historian.

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Sebastian Haffner

Raimund Pretzel (27 December 1907 – 2 January 1999), better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and author.

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Second Merkel cabinet

The second Merkel cabinet was the Government of Germany during the 17th legislative session of the Bundestag following the 2009 federal election, and left office on 17 December 2013.

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Shaman of Oberstdorf

Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night is a study of the arrest and trial of Chonrad Stoecklin (1549–1587), a German herdsman from the town of Oberstdorf who was accused and executed for the crime of witchcraft after experiencing a series of visions.

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Silesian Piasts

The Silesian Piasts were the elder of four lines of the Polish Piast dynasty beginning with Władysław II the Exile (1105–1159), eldest son of Duke Bolesław III of Poland.

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Sonderweg

Sonderweg ("special path") identifies the theory in German historiography that considers the German-speaking lands or the country Germany itself to have followed a course from aristocracy to democracy unlike any other in Europe.

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Stuttgart

Stuttgart (Swabian: italics,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Text publication society

A text publication society is a learned society which publishes (either as its sole function, or as a principal function) scholarly editions of old works of historical or literary interest, or archival documents.

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The Church (1989 film)

The Church (Italian title: La chiesa), also known as Cathedral of Demons or Demon Cathedral, is a 1989 Italian horror film directed by Michele Soavi.

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The Course of German History

The Course of German History is a non-fiction book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor.

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany is a book by William L. Shirer chronicling the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from the birth of Adolf Hitler in 1889 to the end of World War II in 1945.

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Theodore S. Hamerow

Theodore Stephen Hamerow (August 24, 1920 – February 16, 2013) was an American historian, focussing on modern history, especially German history of the 19th and 20th century.

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Thomas Koschwitz

Thomas Koschwitz (born April 6, 1956 in Heidelberg, West Germany) is a German radio and television host, and a book author since 2002.

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Timeline of German history

This is a timeline of German history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor states.

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Tragedy of the anticommons

The tragedy of the anticommons is a type of coordination breakdown, in which a single resource has numerous rightsholders who prevent others from using it, frustrating what would be a socially desirable outcome.

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Tyndall

Tyndall (the original spelling, also Tyndale, "Tindol",Tyndal, Tindall, Tindal, Tindale, Tindle, Tindell, Tindill, and Tindel) is the name of an English family taken from the land they held as tenants in chief of the Kings of England and Scotland in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries: Tynedale, or the valley of the Tyne, in Northumberland.

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Ulrich Herbert

Ulrich Herbert (born 24 September 1951 in Düsseldorf) is a German historian and a specializes in the Nazi era and German history during World War II.

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Unsere Besten

("Our Best") was a television series shown in German public television (ZDF) in November 2003, similar to the BBC series 100 Greatest Britons and that program's spin-offs.

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Ute Frevert

Ute Frevert (born 10 June 1954 in Schötmar, Bad Salzuflen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German historian.

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Walhalla memorial

The Walhalla is a hall of fame that honors laudable and distinguished people in German history – "politicians, sovereigns, scientists and artists of the German tongue";Official Guide booklet, 2002, p. 3 thus the celebrities honored are drawn from Greater Germany, a wider area than today's Germany, and even as far away as Britain in the case of several Anglo-Saxons who are honored.

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Walter Laqueur

Walter Ze'ev Laqueur (born 26 May 1921) is an American historian, journalist and political commentator.

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Wartburg

The Wartburg is a castle originally built in the Middle Ages.

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Weimar

Weimar (Vimaria or Vinaria) is a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany.

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Weimar culture

Weimar culture was the emergence of the arts and sciences that happened in Germany during the Weimar Republic, the latter during that part of the interwar period between Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918 and Hitler's rise to power in 1933.

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Westphalia

Westphalia (Westfalen) is a region in northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Wilhelminism

The Wilhelmine Period comprises the period of German history between 1890 and 1918, embracing the reign of Emperor Wilhelm II in the German Empire from the resignation of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck until the end of World War I and Wilhelm's abdication during the November Revolution.

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William B. Bader

William Banks Bader (September 8, 1931 – March 16, 2016) was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs from 1999 to 2001.

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William W. Hagen

William W. Hagen (born 1942) is a prominent historian and professor of history at the University of California-Davis.

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William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe

Wilhelm, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg (9 January 1724 – 10 September 1777), born Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg, was a German ruler of the County of Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg, an important military commander in the Seven Years' War, Generalfeldzeugmeister of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and British field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall).

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Wolfgang Mommsen

Wolfgang Justin Mommsen (November 5, 1930 – August 11, 2004) was a German historian.

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Wolfgang Weyrauch

Wolfgang Weyrauch (15 October 1904 – 7 November 1980) was a German writer, journalist, and actor.

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Year of the Three Emperors

The Year of the Three Emperors, or the Year of the Three Kaisers, (Dreikaiserjahr) refers to the year 1888 during the German Empire in German history.

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1920s Berlin

The Golden Twenties was a vibrant period in the history of Berlin, Germany, Europe and the world in general.

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1954 FIFA World Cup Final

The 1954 FIFA World Cup Final was the final match of the 1954 FIFA World Cup, the fifth World Cup in FIFA history.

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2011 in Germany

2011 in Germany are the events and situation of the Federal Republic of Germany in the year 2011, the state of its land and people in that year.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany

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