History of Germany?

Question

how did germany become a country? Don't worry, i googled it. and the info just got confusing because they talked about one thing to another.

Answer 1

It is a bit confusing, because 'Germany' existed for a long time before it became a real (unified) country. It didn't unite until 1871.

It's a bit involved to explain here; read through the Wikipedia article below.

Answer 2

The princely and ecclesiastical states that were the political units prior to German unification, were the last vestiges of feudal institutions in the country now known as Germany.

Germany, unlike most of the other modern day nation states of Europe, was the last to be united under a single federal government. It did not have the experience of absolute monarchy as the other countries had, and therefore the German peoples had no national identity.

But when they at long last could not escape the realities of benefit that being a nation state provided, they rather quickly adopted this form of government.

They had supreme examples of such derived benefits. The richly rewarding colonies the other great European powers controlled - England most of all, but not too far behind were France and Spain - were the Germans inspiration for becoming federated.

The great statesman Bismarck, is credited with primarily having wielded the Germans into Germany.

So that, it became a country by way of its masses who were very jealous of the economic gains of their counterparts in the other countries, pressuring their overlords to finally surrender their out of date political powers.

Anyway, the above is the best explanation I can give as to how Germany became a country.

Wotan

Answer 3

The problem is the modern confusion between "STate" and "Nation". Nation is formed by people, land and culture, When you have a people, feeling commonly, and with common cultural roots, usually coming from old time and maybe from a far away molding, you have a nation. And Germany was a Nations from thousand years. But a Nation do not need to be a nified state always: state is a organization made for distributing power on population and, in theory, to face the people need. germany was a single Nation from the roman period, as it overcome tribalism, but become a single state only in 1871. The same was for Italy, becoming a single state only in 1861, and even for Spain, who unified only in XV century, while "Spanish nation feeling" was cemented hundreds years before.

Answer 4

OK Jo. Keeping it simple, there were about 300 little principalities of German speaking people in the area which eventually would become Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War. When Napoleon was defeated in 1815, the Congress of Vienna redrew the map of Europe remaking the German provinces into ~38, each with its own prince. Prussia became to dominant kingdom. Otto von Bismarck was a Prussian statesman who 'wheeled and dealed' with these individual provinces making alliances until finally all became incorporated in the 2nd German Reich - which means empire - in 1871.

Answer 5

Because Germany in history was separated by the Berlin Wall. The West Germany and The East Germany. That's why you got confused. But today Germany not separated anymore by the Berlin Wall.

Answer 6

Germany has been a country for a very long time - the Germanic peoples were around in the time of Ancient Rome and before. But they were not what we know as Germany today. They were a very small little country, surrounded by other small countries - austria, prussia, saxony and many others. Germany, in the 19th century, began absorbing its neighbors and created what we know today as the German Empire.

Answer 7

Read James MIschner's book "Poland" he explains in detail about the Christian Knights that guarded the silk road after the last battle for the holy lands.
How they became to powerful and strong and, wanting their own lands were given a small portion ceded by several countries, to make them happy, the started the country of Germany here.
They continued to fight as mercenaries to any one country that could pay the price.

The history of these areas are very interesting, read it.

Answer 8

you're able to remember that the atrocities of the conflict have been dedicated by potential of the Nazi celebration, Hitler's upward push to skill over a downtrodden and rather helpless Germany got here as a results of the basically approximately exile that the Treaty of Versailles placed on the rustic. The german human beings have been often sufferers of his sadism. Germans in the present day at the instant are not probably any diverse from American little ones, as a rustic in the present day they can't and should not be held in charge for the transgressions of the Nazi's. consequently they study it the comparable way that we do.