Long disputed, the predominantly German-speaking region of Alsace or Elsaß was annexed by Germany in 1871 ; after World War I, it was reintegrated into France.

Auschwitz concentration camp ( ) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

* 1960 – The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.

Most Holocaust historians identify six German Nazi extermination camps, all in occupied Poland ; two of them, Chełmno and the Auschwitz II, in the western Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany ( October 1939 ), four in the General Government area.

In 1938 Germany annexed Austria and Italy assisted in Germany in resolving the diplomatic crisis between Germany versus Britain and France over claims on Czecholslovakia by arranging the Munich Agreement that gave Germany the Sudetenland and was perceived at the time to have averted a European war, these hopes faded when Hitler violated the Munich Agreement by ordering the invasion and partition of Czechoslovakia between Germany and a client state of Slovakia in 1939.

Half a million residents of the annexed Polish territories, as well as from Slovenia, Alsace, Lorraine, and Luxembourg were deported to the General Government or sent to Germany as slave labour.

The situation is further complicated by the fact that parts of the current Polish population in historical eastern Germany are themselves expellees ( or descendants of expellees ) who were expelled from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union and were forced to leave their homes and property behind as well.

As Nazi Germany annexed Austria and moved against Czechoslovakia, Italy saw itself becoming a second-rate member of the Axis.

When Germany annexed Austria, Gödel automatically became a German citizen at age 32.

The USSR annexed the whole of Lithuania, including the Scheschupe area, which was to be given to Germany.

Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed by Germany in the late 19th century, and extraction of the island's phosphate began in 1906.

This name was used until Germany annexed the island 90 years later.

The island was annexed by Germany in 1888 and incorporated into Germany's Marshall Islands Protectorate.

There is also is unitary Belgian nationalism, several versions of a Greater Netherlands ideal, and a German-speaking community of Belgium annexed from Prussia in 1920, and re-annexed by Germany in 1940 – 1944.

Hence, as retroactive minimisation of the Holocaust, Holocaust deniers have attached themselves to the Heimatvertriebenen ( ethnic Germans expelled mainly from the eastern quarter of Germany annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union after the war ), and have, per their opponents, attempted to use sympathy for said Germans, and blame the Jews for the suffering of the Heimatvertriebenen.

* 1939 – World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig ( now Gdańsk, Poland ) is annexed by Nazi Germany.

After being annexed by Nazi Germany, much of the region was redesignated as the Reichsgau of " Sudetenland ".

Nazi Germany annexed the city after the Invasion of Poland in 1939, and administered it as part of Danzig-West Prussia. Poles and Jews were classified as untermenschen by German authorities, with their fate being slavery and extermination.

In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria, again provoking little response from other European powers.

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.

** Following the invasion of Poland, Danzig ( now Gdańsk, Poland ) is annexed to Nazi Germany.

* Johann Jacob Baeyer 1794 – 1885, Berlin ( Germany )

Imperial Germany set up a protectorate over the Sultan of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir William Mackinnon's British East Africa Company ( BEAC ) in 1888, after the company had received a royal charter and concessionary rights to the Kenya coast from the Sultan of Zanzibar for a 50-year period.

Between 1878 and 1919 Britain, France and Germany, busy extending their own colonial territories in the region, threatened Liberia militarily, and France and Britain forced Liberia to cede parts of its territory to them ( 1883, 1885, 1892, 1903, 1919 ).

Recognised as part of the Spanish East Indies in 1874, the islands were sold to Germany in 1884, and became part of German New Guinea in 1885.

In 1885 he decided to leave for Germany, where for two years he studied sociology in Marburg, Berlin and Leipzig.

In 1885 France and Germany brought all the European powers with interests in Africa together at the Berlin Conference.

Image: Frankfurt Hauptsynagoge 1885. jpg | The main synagogue of the city of Frankfurt am Main ( Germany ) before the Kristallnacht.

Putrescine and cadaverine < ref > Ludwig Brieger, " Weitere Untersuchungen über Ptomaine " investigations into ptomaines ( Berlin, Germany: August Hirschwald, 1885 ), page 39.

This gave socialising a cosmopolitan flavour: ' Russia, Sweden, England, Austria, Germany, France, Australia and the United States were represented at our table, all as one large family, and striving towards the same goal ,' the painter Annie Goater penned in 1885 in an essay on her recent experiences at one French colony.

It was founded in 1885 by German immigrants and named for Elberfeld, Germany.

The first use of the Abt system was on the Harzbahn in Germany which opened in 1885.

Between 1885 and 1914, Britain brought nearly 30 % of Africa's population under its control, to 15 % for France, 9 % for Germany, 7 % for Belgium and 1 % for Italy: Nigeria alone contributed 15 million subjects to Britain, more than in the whole of French West Africa, or the entire German colonial empire.

The first practical automobile with a petrol engine was built by Karl Benz in 1885 in Mannheim, Germany.

He was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Germany in 1885, and served until his death in Brussels, Belgium.

Hanover () was a Regierungsbezirk of the Prussian Province of Hanover and of Lower Saxony, Germany, that existed from 1885 until 2004.

Category: 1885 establishments in Germany

Germany, which had occupied Yap, disputed the Spanish claim, and the matter went to the arbitration of Pope Leo XIII in 1885.

In 1903 he married Käte Kleefeld ( 1885 – 1970 ), daughter of a wealthy Jewish Berlin businessman, and the sister of Kurt von Kleefeld, the last person in Germany to be ennobled ( in 1918 ).

Heinrich Brüning () ( 26 November 1885 – 30 March 1970 ) was Chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic from 1930 to 1932.

In 1885 Belyayev started his own publishing house in Leipzig, Germany, initially publishing music by Glazunov, Lyadov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin at his own expense.

Tiarks married in Hamburg on 18 November 1899 Emmie ( Emmy ) Marie Franziska Brödermann of Hamburg, Germany ( 15 February 1875-27 July 1943 ), daughter of Eduard Matthias Brödermann ( Hamburg, 27 February 1842-Hamburg, 28 February 1904 ), merchant, and wife ( Hamburg, 3 May 1872 ) Ramona Luisa Clara Ignacia Störzel ( Grabow, 2 June 1852-Hamburg, 24 June 1939 ); paternal granddaughter of Carl Matthias Brödermann ( Hamburg, 28 April 1789-Eimsbüttel, 10 June 1854 ), a merchant, married firstly in Havana on 16 March 1828 Anna Oom ( Lisbon, 1 September 1787-Hamburg, 28 February 1837 ), and second wife ( Hamburg, 18 December 1838 ) Marianne Kunhardt ( Hamburg, 10 March 1815-Eimsbüttel, 23 February 1882 ) and maternal granddaughter of Heinrich Eduard Störzel ( Grabow, 26 September 1819-Hamburg, 2 April 1885 ) and wife ( Durango, Mexico, 15 December 1847 ) María Ramona Redo Balmaseda ( Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, 14 October 1830-Brannenburg, 23 October 1914 ); and great-granddaughter of Johann Hinrich Brödermann, Bürger and shipbroker, and wife Anna Senglemann, Georg Wilhelm Kunhardt and wife Anna Maria Schultz and Diego Redo and wife María Francisca Balmaseda.

* 1885 Ferdinand Cohn, Germany

But in Germany Rudolf Virchow's study led him to denounce " Nordic mysticism " in the 1885 Anthropology Congress in Karlsruhe.

* in Tanganyika, the area acquired on 17 February 1885 by Carl Peters for the Deutsche Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft ( DOAG, ' German East African Company ', that was initially under an Administrator: 27 May 1885-8 February 1888 Karl Peters ), since the proclamation of the German East African protectorate ( 7 May 1885-1 July 1890 ) over Witu in Kenya ; contested by Britain ; on 28 April 1888 Germany obtains a lease of the coastal strip from the Sultan of Zanzibar ), a single Reichskommissar is appointed ( 8 February 1888-21 February 1891: Hermann von Wissmann ( b. 1853-d. 1905 ), after him Governors of 1 January 1891 when proclaimed German East Africa colony ( Deutsch Ostafrika ), ending the ' private ' DOAG rule.

The name is derived from the town of Borna in Saxony, Germany, which suffered an epidemic of the disease in horses in 1885.