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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.