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The German Empire existed from 18 January 1871, when many of the German-speaking states of Europe united under Prussian leadership in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, until the defeat of Germany in World War I in 1918. At its height, it had the third largest colonial empire among the European powers, only behind the British and French ...
Article History. horizontally striped national flag of black, red, and “gold” (i.e., golden yellow); when used for official purposes, it may incorporate a central eagle shield. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 3 to 5. The Holy Roman Empire, prior to its abolition in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars, included hundreds of German ...
The Flag of the German Empire, or Imperial Flag, Realm Flag, ( German: Reichsflagge) is a combination between the flag of Prussia and the flag of the Hanseatic League. Starting as the national flag of the North German Confederation, it would go on to be commonly used officially and unofficially under the nation-state of the German Reich, which ...
This is a list of wars involving Germany from 1806. It includes the Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (DDR, "East Germany") and the present Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, until German reunification in 1990 ...
The German Empire ( German: Deutsches Reich) was a proto-state which attempted, but ultimately failed, to unify the German states within the German Confederation to create a German nation-state. It was created in the spring of 1848 during the German revolutions by the Frankfurt National Assembly. The parliament elected Archduke John of Austria ...
German Empire (1863–1918) Medal 1890 Bebel and Liebknecht after their success in the federal elections The reverse of that medal commemorating the 1890 Reichstagswahl The party was founded on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle under the name Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein (ADAV, General German Workers' Association ).
The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional districts in Weimar Germany based on the territorial changes after the First World War. [1] The Gau system was established in 1934 as part of the Gleichschaltung process, replacing the de jure ...
