Though Walter Ulbricht, by grace of Soviet tanks, may be head man in East Germany, that does not give him any right to usurp the government of East Berlin or to absorb that semi-city into the Soviet zone.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

In Germany, the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany does not provide comprehensive protection against double jeopardy.

Although Germany has signed the Bologna declaration, it does not conform to it.

As a result, the English word is now associated with the Nazi government of Germany not used often in post-World War II English unless one wishes to invoke the Nazis, or one is translating literally from a foreign language where that language's equivalent of " fatherland " does not bear Nazi connotations.

" If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us ... We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.

Gregory also promoted the Church in northern Europe ; he supported the continuing mission of Saint Boniface in Germany, elevating him to the rank of archbishop of Germany in 732, and after a personal visit to Rome from Boniface in 737, where he was meant to attend a synod which does not appear to have been held, Gregory made Boniface a Papal legate in Germany, and asked him to reorganize the Episcopal sees in Germany.

In his speech " Restatement of Policy on Germany ", made in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946, United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes stated the U. S. motive in detaching the Saar from Germany: " The United States does not feel that it can deny to France, which has been invaded three times by Germany in 70 years, its claim to the Saar territory ".

When the United States does not back down, Soviet armored divisions are sent to the border between West and East Germany.

In Western, Northern and Central Europe ( France, Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries, and the annexed portions of Czechoslovakia ) Germany established economic policies through which it collected roughly 69. 5 billion reichmarks ( 27. 8 billion US Dollars ) by the end of the war ; this figure does not include the sizable plunder of industrial products, military equipment, raw materials and other goods.

Defeated by Napoleon at Ligny, he re-buffs advice by General Gneisenau, who says he does not trust " the English ", to retreat eastwards towards Germany, and instead retreats north to Wavre so as to maintain contact with Wellington.

On July 4, 1936 an agreement was signed under League auspices that defined a refugee coming from Germany as " any person who was settled in that country, who does not possess any nationality other than German nationality, and in respect of whom it is established that in law or in fact he or she does not enjoy the protection of the Government of the Reich " ( article 1 ).

An American diplomat Richard Lynch reported back to Washington in 1954 that public opinion in West Germany was all for freeing Raeder and the rest of the men convicted in Nuremberg, and until the admirals in Spandau were freed, " the feelings does exist and ... until some way can be found to overcome it, a future German Navy will not have the support of its former officers ".

In October 2010, Angela Merkel told a meeting of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) party at Potsdam, near Berlin, that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had " utterly failed ", stating: " The concept that we are now living side by side and are happy about it does not work "., She continued to say that immigrants should integrate and adopt Germany's culture and values.

In other applications of this model, as in Germany, a paramedic equivalent does exist, but is sharply restricted in terms of scope of practice ; often not permitted to perform Advanced Life Support ( ALS ) procedures unless the physician is physically present, or in cases of immediate life-threatening conditions.

Forms that avoid confusion with Danish include a dot placed in the centre of zero ; one with the use of a tick, that is, a slash that does not cross the entire bowl of the figure, but entirely lies in the upper right ; a form found in Germany with a completely vertical slash ; and one with a slash from upper left to lower right.

There are many schools of Osteopathy in Germany ; most are moving toward national recognition although such recognition does not currently exist.

Countries that officially recognize the Armenian genocide include Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela ; additionally, some regional governments of countries recognize the Armenian genocide, such as New South Wales in Australia and Wales in the United Kingdom, also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

West Berlin officially remained an occupied city, but as a corpus separatum it politically was very closely aligned with Federal Republic of Germany despite Berlin's geographic location within East Germany.

* Germany, already heavily involved in internal Ottoman politics, officially opposed a war against the Empire.

In addition, there is a small community of Danish speakers in Southern Schleswig, the portion of Germany bordering Denmark, where it is an officially recognised regional language, just as German is north of the border.

As World War II loomed after 1938, with the Japanese invasion of China and the aggressions of Nazi Germany, FDR gave strong diplomatic and financial support to China and the United Kingdom, while remaining officially neutral.

The German Empire () is the common name given to the state officially named the ( literally: " German Realm "), designating Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.

In 1949 the Soviets turned control of East Germany over to the Socialist Unity Party, headed by Wilhelm Pieck ( 1876 – 1960 ), who became president of the GDR and remained officially ' Number One ' until his death in 1960, while most executive authority was assumed by SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht.

Hamburg (;, local pronunciation ; Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg ), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany, the fifteenth largest German state, and the sixth largest city in the European Union.

The Federal German government thus agreed to the 1990 Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany ( Two Plus Four Agreement ), which officially re-established both German states ' sovereignty.

The transfer to Poland decided at Potsdam in 1945 was officially recognized by East Germany in 1950, by West Germany under Chancellor Willy Brandt in the Treaty of Warsaw signed in 1970, and finally by the reunited Germany by the Two Plus Four Agreement in 1990.

Limburg an der Lahn ( officially: Limburg a. d. Lahn ) is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany.

* Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany — officially since 1967, traditionally since 836 ( oldest partnership of its kind in Europe ).

Moríñigo officially severed diplomatic relations with the Axis countries in 1942, although he did not declare war against Germany until February 1945.

The first spade at the start of the Daimler-Benz development was turned by the Mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen, on 11 October 1993, and the finished complex was officially opened by the Federal President of Germany, Roman Herzog, on 2 October 1998, in a glittering ceremony featuring large-scale celebrations and musical performances.

The unified Germany which arose under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1871 was the first entity that was officially called in German, also the Second Reich () succeeding the HRR.

In Germany, Upper and Lower Sorbian are officially recognized and protected as minority languages.

Although Germany refused to officially surrender the islands, no resistance was offered and the occupation took place without any fighting.

* September 7 – The Federal Republic of Germany is officially founded.

* October 7 – The Democratic Republic of Germany DDR is established officially

* March 12 – Finland and Germany officially end their state of war.

After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, East Germany was the third country in the world, and the first country in Europe, to officially recognise Bangladesh in 1972.

Clemenceau said ...‘ I am totally opposed to you – we both recognise a great danger and you are ... reducing your army and weakening your navy .’ ‘ Ah ’ said Bannerman ‘ but that is for economy !’... then said that he thought the English ought to have some kind of military service, at which Bannerman nearly fainted ...‘ It comes to this ’ said Clemenceau ‘ in the event of your supporting us against Germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our War Offices and to land 110, 000 men on the coast while Italy marches with us in the ranks ?’ Then came the crowning touch of the interview.

There is only one way and that is to recognise her complete equality of status with her fellows and to do so frankly, freely and unreservedly ... While one understands and sympathises with French fears, one cannot, but feel for Germany in the prison of inferiority in which she still remains sixteen years after the conclusion of the war.

The movement to officially recognise the Queenship of Mary was initially promoted by several Catholic Mariological congresses in Lyon, France ; Freiburg, Germany ; and Einsiedeln, Switzerland.

Some extreme right-wing groups, which do not recognise the current government of Germany, use the term " BRD " in the same way the communists used it, to express their view that the government of the Federal Republic of Germany is not the legitimate German government.

Contradictory views were held by German officials: Ernst von Weizsäcker suggested it was merely a matter of graceful withdrawal ; Hermann Göring stated that Germany would never recognise a " red Spain ".

It was released in Scandinavia and Germany, Austria and Switzerland to start with “ I ’ m sure the fans will recognise me but hopefully they will feel that I ’ ve grown as a singer and as a person ;".

Most official Beatles releases, including solo, appeared on Odeon in many non-Anglophone markets like West Germany, Japan, Spain, South America, and France, some of which were slow to recognise Apple Records until up to 1971 ( or Parlophone ), then switched back to Odeon by 1976.

He was the last of just 27 men to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds (; Germany awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade, that with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, during World War II to recognise extreme bravery or successful leadership on the battlefield ).

Others, including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the governments of China, India, Japan, Germany, and Russia recognise " Myanmar " as the official name.