Euronews
| Jun 3, 2013
Torrential rainfall is showing no signs of stopping in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic, where an emergency has been declared. At least eight have died in landslides and raging waters. The Vltava river is beginning to inundate the historic ...
Telegraph.co.uk
| May 20, 2013
An intrepid Telegraph reporter prowls the roads of the German village of Jamel, where some 60 percent of the residents subscribe to the neo-Nazi beliefs of their landlord and leader, Sven Krueger, 36, who owns a demolition company, grew up in...
The Wall Street Journal
| May 17, 2013
German activists are going bonkers over the opening of a Barbie Dreamhouse in Berlin. Little girls can bake cupcakes, dance around a giant (wedding?) ring and try on stilettos all in a blazingly pink atmosphere in the tiny theme park. A mass of mo...
Euronews
| May 9, 2013
A German opera house has pulled a Nazi-themed production of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" after audience members were sickened by scenes of Jews being shot and gassed. The director, who says he wants to confront the composer's anti-Semitism, refus...
Al Jazeera English
| May 6, 2013
All Germany is watching as Beate Zschaepe, known as the "Nazi bride," prepares to go on trial in Munich for a series of hate-crime police and Turkish immigrant murders. Her two alleged accomplices committed suicide. The case has sparked sharp crit...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 24, 2013
An experimental house covered in living, energy-producing algae is the star of a futuristic urban housing show in Hamburg. Its creators say that if "algaetecture" can work in northern Germany's cloudy climate, it can work anywhere.
Deutsche Welle English
| Mar 27, 2013
Part of one of the few remaining sections of the Berlin Wall has been removed by a developer building a luxury apartment complex. The predawn operation stunned protestors who have been fighting to preserve the mural-covered East Side Gallery, a ke...
Associated Press
| Mar 17, 2013
David Hasselhoff put his name behind a campaign to preserve one of the few remaining sections of the Berlin Wall, calling it a "sacred'' monument. Germans fondly remember Hasselhoff for his schmaltzy hit "Looking for Freedom'', which he sung at th...
Russia Today
| Mar 10, 2013
Bavaria is the latest province to be caught up in a wave of European separatism triggered by Scotland and Catalonia. Widely considered Germany's economic powerhouse, a growing number of politicians there insist they would be better off as an indep...
Euronews
| Feb 19, 2013
The world's largest food company has been caught up in the widening European horsemeat scandal, and is withdrawing its ready-to-eat beef tortellini and ravioli meals in Spain and Italy after tests revealed equine DNA in the Nestle products. The me...
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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in western-central Europe. The country consists of 16 states, and its capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state in the European Union. Germany is one of the major political and economic powers of the European continent and a historic leader in many theoretical and technical fields.
A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, was documented before AD 100. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward and established successor kingdoms throughout much of Europe. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation while southern and western parts remained dominated by Roman Catholic denominations, with the two factions clashing in the Thirty Years' War, marking the beginning of the Catholic–Protestant divide that has characterized German society ever since. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states in 1871 into the German Empire, which was Prussian-dominated.
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