Germany

Germany is a country in central Europe. It is a member of the European Union, the United Nations and is a parliamentary republic consisting of 16 Bundesländer. Germany has a close relationship with France as part of the European Union.

History

For a long time Germany used to be divided into many small tribes and later principalities.
However in 1806 France invaded Germany and reorganized Germany into fewer but larger states as part of a Confederation that was to serve as a French puppet. However by occupying Germany and spreading revolutionary ideas France unintentionally planted the seeds of German Nationalism.
In 1815 France was defeated by the seventh Coalition and Europe was reorganized in the Congress of Vienna. Germany was organized into the German Confederation with the Kingdom of Prussia and the Empire of Austria as its main powers.
In 1866 Prussia defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War, also known as the "Brother's War", which led to Austria being excluded from german politics and the formation of the North German Confederation under Prussian leadership.
In 1870 Prussia provoked France into a war, which Prussia won, leading to the formation of the German Empire in the halls of the palace of Versailles. The German Empire colonized several territories in Africa and East Asia and formed an alliance with Austria.
In 1914 this alliance with Austria forced Germany into a cataclysmic war against most of the world, which Germany lost and caused a revolution leading to the establishment of the Weimar Republic.
Due to the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles the Weimar Republic suffered great economic difficulties and political instability. That caused the rise of anti-democratic, nationalist and racist parties such as the NSDAP, which came into power in 1933 and established a totalitarian one-party dicatorship.
After annexing Austria and the Sudetenland from Czechia Germany then went to war against Poland and split the country with the Soviet Union and comitted atrocities against many innocent Poles and Jews. Britain and France went to war against Germany to protect Poland but were too late and before long Germany occupied most of Europe.
Germany then invaded the Soviet Union to gain control of Russia's vast farmland and natural ressources, while inflicting great suffering on the people living there. In the end the United States, the British Empire, the French Resistance and the Soviet Union defeated Germany and partitioned it amongst themselves.
The Eastern part of Germany became a sattelite state of the Soviet Union while the Western part became a Federal Republic allied to the Western Powers. In 1990 the socialist dictatorship in Eastern Germany fell and Germany was reunited and remains so until today.