By 58 BC, the Roman Republic had expanded its borders to the Rhein, forcing pagan clans of the Germanic peoples in Central Europe (including the Saxons, Franks, Frisians, and Thuringians) to join forces ...more
The Reformation (1517-1700), initiated by Martin Luther, a monk and Biblical studies professor at the University of Wittenberg , split Germans according to religious beliefs. When German electoral princes ...more
During the 18th century, flute-playing King Friedrich II (known as Frederick the Great) lead Brandenburg-Prussia to become the ascendant state in Germany. In 1806, Napoleon conquered the remains of the ...more
In 1871, Bismarck founded the German Empire on his own terms: unification under an authoritarian monarchy. At the same time, Germany was industrializing at breakneck speed, but the aristocratic political ...more
On the eve of WWI, Europe was balanced in a web of alliances so complex that minor disputes threatened to ignite continental war. The first domino fell in 1914, when a Serbian nationalist assassinated ...more
In late 1918, with the German army on the brink of collapse, workers and Socialists spearheaded revolt on the homefront in the November Revolution. On November 9, 1918, Social Democratic leader Philipp ...more
Although Hitler now held the most powerful government post, the Nazi party still had difficulty obtaining a majority in the Reichstag. Politically astute, Hitler used the mysterious Reichstag fire one ...more
The persecution of the Jews began years before WWII. The racial ideology that fueled Hitler’s rise to power framed history in terms of racial confrontations with absolute winners and losers. Hitler ...more
In 1949, conflict between the Allies and the Soviets lead to the division of Germany into a capitalist and democratic state in the west and a communist Soviet state in the east. This separation was most ...more
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