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 East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Before the 1970s, the official position of West Germany was that of the Hallstein Doctrine which involved non-recognition of East Germany.
The equivalent of the Communist Party in East Germany was the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany, SED), which along with other parties, was part of the National Front of Democratic Germany.
East Germany was generally regarded as the most economically advanced member of the Warsaw Pact.
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 The Witches: Myth and Reality, Part 4 -- Father Spee and the Voice of Reason
It was said that the witch trials in Wurttemburg and Mainz in Germany stopped after Fr.
His fate, however, was become a witness to a 17th century holocaust-- the witch killings in Wurzburg, Germany.
In particular he condemned the witch hunts and persecutions in Wurzburg (in today's Germany).
http://www.parascope.com/en/articles/witches04.htm   (4011 words)

  
 Germany - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Germany
Additionally, relations with several Arab states were strained by West Germany's agreement to establish ambassadorial relations with Israel, to whom, by 1965, it had completed payment of large reparations for the Holocaust.
West Germany was admitted to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC; the predecessor of the OECD) in 1949; and became a full member of the Council of Europe in 1951.
West Germany was one of the signatories of the Treaty of Rome in 1957, under which the European Economic Community (EEC) came into being on 1 January 1958.
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Germany   (5916 words)

  
 History of Cologne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the beginning of the Third Reich, Cologne was seen as difficult territory by the Nazis, because of deep-rooted communist and catholic influences on the city.
Upon his release from concentration camp Sachsenhausen, and his return to Cologne in 1946, editor Neven du Mont spotted him and complained about the release of prisoners from the camps - he still saw them as "criminals".
The trade fair grounds next to the Deutz train station were used to herd together the Jewish population for deportation to the death camps and for disposal of their household goods by public sale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cologne   (901 words)

  
 Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Germany is at the forefront of European states seeking to advance the creation of a more unified and capable European defense and security apparatus aswell as a politically/judicially closer and more unified union.
There are also many smaller parties such as the Deutsche Kommunistische Partei (German Communist Party), the fundamentalist Christliche Mitte (Christian Centrist), the separatist Bayernpartei (Bavarian Party) and the Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands (Ecological-Democratic Party of Germany).
Scientology in Germany, which was perceived to be planning to infiltrate the top tiers of society, as an exaggerated picture of the number and influence of its adepts was being reported by the press but also by Scientology groups themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany   (901 words)

  
 Germany - encyclopedia article about Germany.
The Soviet-supported East Germany, by contrast, became one of the most repressive of the communist satellite states of the Warsaw Pact.
Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, made up of 16 federal states (Länder), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation.
Germany prohibits home-schooling, however, this is still practised by a number of people; there has been some publicity to government prosecution of this practice.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Germany   (901 words)

  
 Germany - MSN Encarta
However, Germany soon faced numerous social and economic difficulties as it attempted to absorb millions of new citizens and blend different cultures and institutions.
Germany has three major natural regions: a lowland plain in the north, an area of uplands in the center, and a mountainous area in the south.
Germany’s defeat in 1918 triggered political and economic chaos.
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 Germany - Atlapedia Online
East Germany; In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the control of the East German Communist Party was absolute under the Stalinist, Walter Ulbricht until 1971.
In Sept. 1992 the European currency system was marked by unprecedented turbulence which resulted in intense criticism of Germany particularly by Britain and Italy which felt that the Bundesbank's high-interest-rate policy had contributed to their own domestic economic problems and forced them to pull out of the exchange-rate mechanism.
Unified Germany; With the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe in 1989, the impact was quickly felt in East Germany.
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/germany.htm   (2932 words)

  
 Germany (11/05)
Personal ties between the United States and Germany extend beyond immigration to include intensive foreign exchange programs, booming tourism in both directions, and the presence in Germany of large numbers of American military personnel and their dependents.
Germany continues to be active economically in the states of central and eastern Europe and to actively support the development of democratic institutions, bilaterally and through the EU.
Germany stands at the center of European affairs and is a key partner in U.S. relations with Europeans in NATO and the European Union.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3997.htm   (5913 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
The state of Brandenburg consists of the former Prussian province of Brandenburg minus those parts of the province lying E of the Oder and Neisse rivers in Poland (see Germany).
The March of Brandenburg, as Albert's lands were called, were colonized by Germans and became Christianized.
AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/B/BrandenbSta.html   (571 words)

  
 East Germany. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
Unable to resist the tide of reform sweeping across communist states, the East German government agreed in 1990 to the reunification of Germany under the leadership of West Germany.
Former nation in north-central Europe, officially known as the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1990, when East and West Germany were reunited.
Popular protests for democracy forced the communist government to open the Berlin Wall in 1989 and allow its citizens to migrate to West Germany.
http://www.bartleby.com/59/10/eastgermany.html   (247 words)

  
 Germany - encyclopedia article about Germany.
The new regime made Germany a one-party state by outlawing all oppositional parties and repressing the different-minded parts of the public with the party's own organizations SA and SS, as well as the newly founded state security police Gestapo.
The most infamous atrocity that Nazi Germany had initiated was the persecution and genocide of Jews and minorities such as gypsies and homosexuals as well as political prisoners throughout occupied Europe.
Germany prohibits home-schooling, however, this is still practised by a number of people; there has been some publicity to government prosecution of this practice.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Germany   (247 words)

  
 German Embassy Home Page
Top stories from Germany and the world, Business Brief plus daily German and European Press Reviews.
For the support you signalled with your state visit in 1992 for a Germany that had recently regained its unity."
Germany's Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer was in London on Tuesday 19 October where he met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and British Foreign Minister Jack Straw.
http://www.german-embassy.org.uk/   (247 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
Berlin was the cultural as well as the political capital of a unified Germany from 1871 to 1945 and resumed that role in the 1990s.
Most of the major political parties in Germany are those that dominated West German politics between 1949 and 1990.
Germany has a temperate climate; the lowlands of the N are somewhat warmer than the higher elevations in the central and S regions.
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/nations/germany.html   (9487 words)

  
 Germany/History/GDR/Siegerjustiz/Victor's Justice/DDR/Justiz/Rachejustiz
By prosecuting East German communists today the German anti-communists not only play down their historic decency in fighting Nazism (a fact to which most Germans had no claim to) but they also reiterate one of the major "justifications" for the German people's support of Hitler - Hitler's extreme hatred of the communists.
To blame the East German border regime on the East German system and on those who upheld it alone and to declare the East-West confrontation as totally irrelevant in prosecuting former East German officials is one of the greatest acts of historic revisionism, and a cruel example of Germany's justice system.
It is a hateful politically motivated allegation that Gregor Gysi as a lawyer in the GDR cooperated with the East German police to the detriment of his clients.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/9362/ss.html   (3492 words)

  
 East Germany - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist Party-led state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
It was created in 1946 through the merger of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the Soviet controlled zone, although the SPD remained a separate party in East Berlin until 1961.
Before the 1970s, the official position of West Germany was that of the Hallstein Doctrine which involved non-recognition of East Germany.
http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/east_germany.htm   (3492 words)

  
 East Berlin, Germany  - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
West Berlin was occupied by British, French, and United States forces and was supported by the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly known as West Germany.
East Germany eventually participated in the removal of the Berlin Wall and reunited with West Germany in 1990 as one nation, the Federal Republic of Germany.
Although the GDR announced that the wall was needed to prevent military aggression and political interference from West Germany, the East German government built tank traps and ditches along the eastern side of the wall, suggesting that it was constructed to keep East German citizens in.
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/east_berlin.htm   (568 words)

  
 1920 in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apart from her 8% Belgium was to have the privilege of transferring her entire war debt to Germany's shoulders, and she was also to have a prior claim upon the first £100,000,000 paid by Germany.
The exact conditions laid down were that Germany should reduce the Reichswehr to 150,000 men by October 1, withdraw the arms of the Einwohnerwehr and the Sicherheitspolizei, and issue a proclamation demanding the surrender of all arms in the hands of the civilian population, with effective penalties in the event of default.
The position was in this part of Germany complicated by the existence of the neutral zone lying between the territory occupied by the Entente, and the main part of Germany, where the government were of course free to move their forces as they pleased.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_in_Germany   (568 words)

  
 Germany - Wikitravel
Most large cities in Germany are extremely cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic with large communities of foreigners including non-whites and religious minorities.
Denial of the Holocaust is also a major crime in Germany.
Germany is part of the European Union and the Eurozone; as such it replaced German marks with the euro (symbol: €) in the year 2002.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Germany   (11782 words)

  
 Germany
West Germany also became a member of NATO.
The mass of Germans regarded the Weimar Republic as a child of defeat, imposed upon a Germany whose legitimate aspirations to world leadership had been thwarted by a world conspiracy.
Under the agreement, West Germany and Italy became members of the Brussels treaty organization created in 1948 and renamed the Western European Union.
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107568.html   (11782 words)

  
 Davids Medienkritik: Amerika-Korrespondent
The confusion about America in Germany is due in large part to the fact that the German media is totally failing to provide Germans with balanced coverage of the United States.
And the worst part of it all...American troops are still in Germany and Japan...it's a never ending quagmire...how right Mr.
Lehming is returning home to Germany to take-over as the chief editor of Tagesspiegel's opinion section, a part of his newspaper often confused with the news section.
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 Germany
Schröder's deft handling of Germany's catastrophic floods in August and his tough stance against U.S. plans for a preemptive attack on Iraq buoyed him in the weeks leading up to the election.
Adolf Hitler, an Austrian war veteran and a fanatical nationalist, fanned discontent by promising a Greater Germany, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, restoration of Germany's lost colonies, and the destruction of the Jews, whom he scapegoated as the reason for Germany's downfall and depressed economy.
The fall of the Communist government in East Germany left only Soviet objections to German reunification to be dealt with.
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 East Germany
They still use term 'east' for the lands in the East of Berlin and from their point of view 'East Germany' will never be removed from Germany map.
This question arises not just from political background of the country, but historical, too.
This event has great value for Germans as the act of democracy and freedom in society.
http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/east_germany.htm   (269 words)

  
 Germany
A Napoleonic creation, ostensibly bonding together most of the German states in central and southern Germany, under the executive head of the Archbishop of Regensburg.
Throughout much of its history Germany has been more a geographical expression than a political one.
A record of the rulers of German states is an exceedingly complex undertaking, inasmuch as German feudal theory encouraged rampant subdivision of territories within various branches of governing noble families.
http://www.hostkingdom.net/germany.html   (269 words)

  
 Larkey: Political Economy of Memory in East Germany
The reconfiguration of Germany resulting from unification has arrested the development of the German Democratic Republic as a separate nation and fundamentally altered the evolution of the West German state after the eastern New German States were joined to the West in 1991.
The post-unification period has witnessed the privatization of the East German economy, the de-regulation of most areas of public life and the de-centralization of the centralized economic and political institutions in the country.
In the wake of the 1955 establishment of the NATO and Warsaw Pact military alliances, the Socialist Unity Party and the GDR government pursued a policy of a constructing a socialist German nation within the GDR state (25).
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/CSS97/papers/larkey.html   (9608 words)

  
 Eastern Germany's EU Funds in Danger of Drying Up Germany Deutsche Welle 24.05.2004
Statistically speaking, eastern Germany is no longer among the poorest regions in the EU, now that the bloc has expanded eastwards to include several ex-communist states with struggling economies.
Germany's attempt to rebuild its once communist East has been an unmitigated disaster and the massive financial transfers from the West endanger the entire nation's economy, according to a government-commissioned report.
However, unemployment in Germany's eastern states is over 20 percent, and despite an estimated €1.25 trillion ($1.5) in aid, the economic gap separating east and west hasn't been closed.
http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1432_A_1213203_1_A,00.html   (9608 words)

  
 CNN.com - Main parties struggle in east Germany - Aug 22, 2005
Merkel grew up in communist East Germany, and the CDU was hoping that her background would be an asset.
He blamed the east's post-communist proletarian culture for the case of a mother killing her nine babies.
The former Conservative leadership candidate Edmund Stoiber told a Bavarian audience that "the east should not be allowed to determine the outcome of the elections" and that "the frustrated should not be allowed to chose the next chancellor." He also suggested that "easterners" were less intelligent than "westerners."
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/22/germany.cooke   (567 words)

  
 The End of East Germany Germany Deutsche Welle 23.08.2005
Either the East Germans would toss their dreams of a socialist state and reunify quickly with wealthier West Germany, or the economically-decrepit GDR would try to retain some sense of its past and vote for independence, at least for the time being.
The answer was clear: 294 parliamentarians were for the dissolution of East Germany.
Fifteen years ago to the day on Saturday, thousands of East German demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the communist country's hated Stasi secret police.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1687204,00.html   (1030 words)

  
 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles
Government: Germany is a federal republic made up of 16 states called Länder.
The Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) (successor to the former Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), the communist party which ruled in the former German Democratic Republic) won 4% of the vote but returned two constituency MPs.
As a founding member of the EU, Germany has maintained a close post-war relationship with France.
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 Political Organisations 1949-1990 (East Germany)
As we remarked for Nazi Germany, the Communist regime in East Germany was, until its last days, characterized by the union of party and state.
All public activity in East Germany was backed by some kind of organization.
In October-November 2000, during a visit to my old home town in (East) Germany, I did some research on flags of former East German political organizations.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de}ddr.html   (1476 words)

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