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| | Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | That year, the German Communist Party was established by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, and in January 1919 the German Workers Party, later known as the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party, NSDAP, "Nazis"). | | | This was exacerbated by a wide-spread right-wing (monarchist, völkische, and Nazi) Dolchstoßlegende, a political myth which claimed the German Revolution was the main reason why Germany had lost the war, decried the Revolutionists as traitors (Novemberverbrecher = November criminals) and the political system born of the Revolution as illegitimate. | | | Some German cities have seen a revival of Jewish culture, particularly in Berlin, where there are also 3,000 Israelis. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Germany |
| | Up to 1591 their aim was to bring about a union of all the German Protestant princes, including the Lutheran, for the purpose of enforcing the claims of Protestantism in south-western Germany. | | | These events implied not only a change in the government of the empire, so that it was controlled by the electors and not by the emperor, but the empire itself became almost a shadow incapable of great administrative actions. | | | The German bishops also yielded more and more to the authority of Rome; the Ottonian theory of government was already undermined. |
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| | I would argue that it was this transformation of the German Empire into the evil empire that enabled the American people in general and President Wilson in particular to put an end to the deeply ambivalent U.S. policy toward Europe of the years 1914- 1916, a policy that could not be maintained indefinitely. | | | It is equally well-known that a large part of the German public had drawn the conclusion from the deliberately vague wording of Wilson's state- ments that the American president was actually demanding also the abdication of the emperor and the transition to a German republic. | | | The United States chose to interpret German unity from this providential perspective, as it had done with other national and democratic movements in Europe during the nineteenth century, be it in Greece, Hungary, Italy, or a republican France. |
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http://www.h-net.org/~german/research/ghi/junker.txt
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| | History of Germany |
| | Although the empire's constitution did not provide for a political system in which the government was responsible to parliament, political parties were founded that represented the main social groups. | | | The Germanic tribes he describes are believed to have come from Scandinavia to Germany about 100 B.C., perhaps induced to migrate by overpopulation. | | | According to the laws of the German feudal system, the king had no claims on the vassals of the other princes, only on those living within his family's territory. |
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http://home.carolina.rr.com/wormold/germany
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| | Holy Roman Empire. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The defense of the empire against foreign attack was made more difficult by the repeated attempts of the emperors to maintain their authority in Italy against the opposition of the city-states (see commune), the papacy, and the petty princes. | | | Also untenable was the dual position of the emperors as rulers of Germany and of Italy; geography as well as cultural and political conditions separated the two countries. | | | In the Thirty Years War (1618–48; see Ferdinand II; Ferdinand III; Wallenstein; Protestant Union) the emperor, allied with Spain, opposed the Protestant princes, who were allied chiefly with Sweden and France. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/ho/HolyRoma.html
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| | German unification - Bismarck and the second German Empire |
| | In all these proposals for a new Constitution he saw only that Prussia would be required to sacrifice its complete independence; that the King of Prussia would become executor for the decrees of a popular and alien Parliament. | | | In the nineteenth century alone Germany had fought a "War of Liberation" against Napoleon in 1813, whilst in 1840 there was a crisis, which blew over, featuring widespread, and popularly supported, German alarm when it appeared that the French intended to seize territories south of the Rhine. | | | Bismarck was not alone, in these times, in hoping to take measures, broadly exploitative of populist sentiment, that would enhance the position of a German Kingdom. |
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http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/german_unification.html
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| | FRANCIA |
| | The humiliation and the mortification of the Germans marching into Paris was almost more than the French spirit could bear, but, what's worse, there were plenty who were more than happy to welcome Fascism and cooperate with the German occupation and the harrowing of the Jews. | | | This actually led to a conspiracy of military men and attempts at a coup d'état and assassinations against de Gaulle. | | | What finally drove things down to the bottom was the Arab Conquest, which crippled or destroyed trade in the Mediterranean, as this had been carried on by Romania. |
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http://www.friesian.com/francia.htm
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| | German History |
| | Get information on German historical past and present, chronology of main historical and political events in Germany. | | | It is a daily Internet discussion forum focused on scholarly topics in German history. | | | The Nizkor Project presents the feature examining the Holocaust deniers' arguments, misrepresentations and pseudoscientific offerings by looking at the relevant issues in detail. |
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http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/links/history.htm
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| | boys clothing: European royalty--Germany |
| | Ironically, it was this defeat and occupation by the French that stired a feeling of German national identity. | | | Also, when my Dad was in the US Army, and was being investigated for a TOP SECRET Clearance, there was some concern that he wouldn't qualify, due to his royal family heritage." [HBC note: Walt thank you for your kind comments and interesting information. | | | Wilhelm I brilliant guided by Bismarck unified the Germa ntion, but under the aggrssively masuline amd marshall leadership of conservative Prussia hich would place its stamp on the German nation. |
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http://histclo.com/royal/ger/royal-ger.htm
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| | NationMaster.com - Detailed Nation Profile: Germany |
| | The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. | | | The Berlin Wall was more about protecting the German Democratic Republic from losing its citizens. | | | Americans call the German State "Anti-American" just because it didn't agree with the Iraq War, don't they? |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/country/gm
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| | Modern History Sourcebook: Documents of German Unification, 1848-1871 |
| | In these states German life has its positive and negative poles--in the former, all the interests which are national and reformative, in the latter, all that are dynastic and destructive. | | | Modern History Sourcebook: Documents of German Unification, 1848-1871 | | | The German question is not a constitutional question, but a question of power; and the Prussian monarchy is now wholly German, while that of Austria cannot be. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/germanunification.html
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| | German Empire 1871-1918 (Germany) |
| | The King of Prussia was also the German Emperor (Deutscher Kaiser); however, those other German states that had survived until 1870 as independent retained some of their former government structure, though subordinated to the overall Reich government. | | | The schwarz-weiß-rot (black-white-red) German imperial flag was adopted by the North German Confederation in 1867, as a combination of the black-white of Prussia and the red-white of the Hanseatic League [and/or of Brandenburg]. | | | With the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, [the black-white-red flag of the North German League] was maintained, Art. |
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http://flagspot.net/flags/de1871.html
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| | James Connolly: German or British Empire? (1916) |
| | We do not wish to be ruled by either empire, but we certainly believe that the first named contains in germ more of the possibilities of freedom and civilisation than the latter. | | | The German Empire is a homogeneous Empire of self-governing peoples; the British Empire is a heterogeneous collection in which a very small number of self-governing communities connive at the subjugation, by force, of a vast number of despotically ruled subject populations. | | | Every Socialist anxiously awaits and prays for that full development of the capitalist system which can alone make Socialism possible, but can only come into being by virtue of the efforts of the capitalists inspired by selfish reasons. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1916/03/germbrit.htm
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| | German-Prussian Genealogy Bridge to Information on German and Prussian Genealogy |
| | Bibliography of German Genealogy Links, Bundeslander Home Page, (Information on the former state of Prussia), Geographic Finding Aids, Germany Through the Ages, German Genealogy-Regional Research, Historical Maps, Volunteer Lookups | | | Translate from German to English or English to German | | | Beginner's Tips, Regional Research, German Emmigration to America (Passenger Lists), and FAQ's and Documents (Sample Letters to Church) |
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/1538/germanpg.html
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| | Decorations of the States of the German Empire |
| | Decorations of the States of the German Empire | | | Regarding the states themselves, Germany before unification had been a hodgepodge of small states, at one time numbering around 300. | | | Napoleon caused the Holy Roman Empire to be secularized in 1803, and many states, including the holdings of various prince-bishops, were abolished (although some new states were added). |
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http://home.att.net/~david.danner/militaria/states.htm
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| | German - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | When talking about a person, it can mean someone who lives in Germany, or someone who thinks of himself or herself as 'German'. | | | It can mean a person from the country the Federal Republic of Germany, or one of the earlier countries in the same area. |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/German
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| | Germany, the German Confederation |
| | Subsequent Dukes were wise enough not to oppose Prussia; Baden joined the German Empire in 1871; and Zähringen rule lasted until the German princely states were all abolished in 1918. | | | There were no male heirs, and the Emperor Rudolf II claimed the lands as defaulted to the Empire. | | | Having gone along with the French Empire, Württemberg then went along with the German Empire in 1871, and the Kings survived until all the princely states were abolished in 1918. |
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| | The Anatomy of the German Empire 1648-1918 |
| | Liechtenstein and Luxemburg left the German confederation in 1867. | | | France occupies Germany west of the Rhine and incorporates it into the French Empire (acknowledged by the German princes in 1797 and 1801). | | | The German Confederation consists of 35 soverein territories and 4 free cities. |
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http://www.progenealogists.com/germany/articles/ganatomy.htm
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| | German Genealogy: Habsburg Empire |
| | This regional page describes the Habsburg Empire as it existed from 1814-1918. | | | As a result, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was utterly transformed into a much smaller state, German-Austria, which had been first proclaimed in October 30, 1918. | | | However, more often there were losses, for example when as part of the wars for Italian unification, the Empire in 1859 lost Lombardy, in 1860, Modena and Tuscany, and in 1866, Venetia. |
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| | History of the World - Austro-German Hapsburg Empire |
| | Netherlands, Luxembourg and Burgundy brought under German control | | | History of the World - Austro-German Hapsburg Empire | | | Uprising in Germany and Austria - war against Napoleon renewed |
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| | Atlas des Deutschen Reichs |
| | The atlas helps in tracing the roots of families with origins in any part of the German empire from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. | | | A special feature is the marking of the locations of churches on all of the maps as well as one special map with an accompanying table giving statistics on the religious denominations found throughout the German empire down to the Regierungsbezirk and Kreis governmental units. | | | Place-names and political jurisdictions often change over time. |
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http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein
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| | News: Zoo Empire v1.22 German Patch - GamersHell.com |
| | The patch v1.22 for the German version of Zoo Empire has been released (thanks: 3DGamers). | | | Be sure to check out the demo if you haven't done so yet. | | | Please login to post comments (need to register first) |
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http://www.gamershell.com/news/28309.html
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| | Empire Imports |
| | This site and its contents © 1998-2006 Empire Imports, Inc. All rights reserved. | | | Shipping within 24 hours from our US warehouse |
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http://www.empireimports.com
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| | FEEFHS MAP ROOM - German Empire West |
| | German Empire - West (12 maps - 2.4 Megs - at a scale of 1:1,800,000 or 1 inch equals approximately 28 miles) | | | Latest Update: 30 May 1997 (Alsace Lorraine, Brunswick and Schleswig-Holstein maps added) |
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