* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire.

In contrast, in the Arian German kingdoms established on the wreckage of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, there were entirely separate Arian and Nicene Churches with parallel hierarchies, each serving different sets of believers.

Following the treaty of Verdun of 843, Alemannia became a province of the eastern kingdom of Louis the German, the precursor of the Holy Roman Empire.

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

The Second French Empire, his Western European model, had been defeated in the Franco-Prussian War by the North German Confederation under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia.

It was begun in the late 19th century and redesigned while the construction was in progress to accommodate the extra offices needed due to the naval arms race with the German Empire.

Administered within the Prussian Rhine Province, the town became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the Prussian-led unification of Germany.

First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( 1701 – 1918 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ) and the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ).

Berlin became the capital of the German Empire in 1871 and expanded rapidly in the following years.

In 1871, Berlin became capital of the newly founded German Empire.

Each of the national governments based in Berlin — the 1871 German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and now the reunified Germany — initiated ambitious ( re -) construction programs, with each adding its own distinctive style to the city's architecture.

With the dissolution of the German Confederation in 1866 and the founding of the German Empire ( Deutsches Reich ) in 1871, the Reichstag was established as the German parliament in Berlin.

The German Empire, in turn, under the " Drang nach Osten " policy, aspired to turn the Ottoman Empire into its own de facto colony, and thus supported its integrity.

Many Central European countries and regions were parts of the German Empire | German and the Austro-Hungarian empires ; thus they also have historical and cultural connections.

Some notable collectors were Pope Boniface VIII, Emperor Maximilian of the Holy Roman Empire, Louis XIV of France, Ferdinand I, Henry IV of France and Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, who started the Berlin Coin Cabinet ( German: Münzkabinett Berlin ).

Later in the same century, Croatia was so weak that its parliament authorized Ferdinand Habsburg to carve out large areas of Croatia and Slavonia adjacent to the Ottoman Empire for the creation of the Military Frontier ( Vojna Krajina, German Militaergrenze ) which would be ruled directly from Vienna's military headquarters.

The demographic history of Croatia is marked by significant migrations, including the arrival of the Croats in the area growth of Hungarian and German speaking population since the personal union of Croatia and Hungary, and joining of the Habsburg Empire, migrations set off by Ottoman conquests and growth of Italian speaking population in Istria and in Dalmatia during Venetian rule there.

In the kind of constitutional monarchy established under the Constitution of the German Empire which Bismarck inspired, the Kaiser retained considerable actual executive power, and the Prime Minister needed no parliamentary vote of confidence and ruled solely by the imperial mandate.

The Central Powers ( German: Mittelmächte ; Hungarian: Központi hatalmak ; Turkish: İttifak Devletleri or Bağlaşma Devletleri ; Bulgarian: Централни сили ) were one of the two warring factions in World War I ( 1914 – 18 ), composed of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

Included on the CD is a recording from May 9 1945, when British Troops landed in St. Peter Port to Liberate the Island after 5 years of German Occupation during WWII.

Included in the artillery were two Austro – Hungarian howitzers batteries of 12 heavy mountain howitzers and a German 10-cm.

Included in this was a cautious sharing of cryptologic information: the British in stages revealed the extent of their considerable success against high-level German systems, the U. S. its equivalent success against Japanese.

The German Zollverein 1834 – 1919blue = Prussia in 1834 grey = Included region until 1866yellow = Excluded after 1866red = Borders of the German Union of 1828 pink = Relevant others until 1834

Included are the German Schlieffen plan, France's offensive Plan XVII, joint British and French arrangements, and Russia's approach to a future European war.

** German 6th SS Panzer Army – Included the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler

Included were Gothic, Langobardic, Anglo-Saxon, Austrian, Dutch and Swiss German figures, as well as persons who had gained fame mainly in other countries or for non-German governments.

The total budget includes an estimated amount of € 5. 5 ($ 7. 7 ) bn, which is directly financed by either the German government or the German Bundesländer.

The German leadership were concerned less with how to balance the civilian economy and the needs of civilian consumption, but rather to figure out how to best prepare the economy for total war.

The post-war German Army ( Reichsheer ) was permitted a large proportion of cavalry ( 18 regiments or 16. 4 % of total manpower ) under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles.

Nonetheless, the share of the film market for German films in this period and into the 1950s remained relatively large, taking up some 40 percent of the total market.

A general offensive by the Whites ( whose Guards ' total force was about the same as that of the Red Guards ) began on 15 March 1918, bolstered by the intervention of the 10, 000-strong Baltic Sea Division and the 3, 000-strong Detachment Brandenstein of the German army.

A total of 25 million German marks were spent on Russia.

Between 1991 and 2010, 40, 301 mergers and acquisitions with an involvement of German firms with a total known value of 2, 422 bil.

Beginning with the replacement of the Reichsmark with the Deutsche Mark as legal tender, a lasting period of low inflation and rapid industrial growth was overseen by the government led by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his minister of economics, Ludwig Erhard, raising West Germany from total wartime devastation to one of the most developed nations in modern Europe.

In total, there are about 67 commissioned ships in the German Navy, including 4 submarines and 21 auxiliary ships.

The unification of the two parties was symbolic of the new friendship of German socialists in defeating their common enemy, however, Communists who made a majority had virtually total control over policy.

The total of German war dead was 8 % to 10 % out of a prewar population of 69, 000, 000, or between 5. 5 million and 7 million people.

German heraldry has examples of shields with numerous crests, as this arms of Saxe-Altenburg featuring a total of seven crests.

Furthermore, strongly influenced by Max Stirner and Benjamin Tucker, the German and American theorists of individualist anarchism, they demanded the total liberation of the human personality from the fetters of organized society.

Russian writer Vadim Erlikman, for example, makes the following estimates: executions, 1. 5 million ; gulags, 5 million ; deportations, 1. 7 million out of 7. 5 million deported ; and POWs and German civilians, 1 milliona total of about 9 million victims of repression.

Goebbels demanded from his audience a commitment to " total war ," the complete mobilization of the German economy and German society for the war effort.

The German occupation of the Czech area of Czecho-Slovakia on the Ides of March, in total contravention of the Munich Agreement that had been signed less than six months before, infuriated British and French public opinion and lost Germany all sympathy.

Ribbentrop told Welles that only a total German victory " could give us the peace we want ".

In 1941 on the same day as the German invasion of Russia ( 22 June ) the British took total control over Iraq and Kuwait.

In his lifetime, Krupp manufactured a total of 24, 576 guns ; 10, 666 for the German government and 13, 910 for export.

In 2008, the German magazine sport auto conducted a test for production cars, with the CCX winning the event in a total time of.

Occasionally, devaluation was used, 60 % in total between 1975 and 1990, allowing the currency to more closely follow the depreciating US dollar than the rising German mark.

In practice, France deployed about twice as many men, 36 divisions ( roughly one third of its force ), for defence of the Maginot Line in Alsace and Lorraine, whereas the opposing German Heeresgruppe C only contained 19 divisions, or less than one seventh of the total force committed in Fall Gelb.

Under the German constitution, a party that wins at least three directly-elected seats is eligible for proportional representation regardless of its nationwide vote total.