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This is a timeline of German history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor states.To read about the background to these events, see History of Germany.
The Press and Popular Culture in Interwar Europe (2015) Overy, R. J. The Inter-War Crisis 1919–1939 (2nd ed. 2007) Rothschild, Joseph. East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars (U of Washington Press, 2017). Seton-Watson, Hugh. (1945) Eastern Europe Between The Wars 1918–1941 (1945) online; Somervell, D.C. (1936).
At the Potsdam Conference the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union placed the German territories within the 1937 Nazi Germany borders east of the Oder–Neisse line (before Austria became part of Nazi Germany ie an "annexation" on 13 March 1938) like in the Berlin Declaration of 5 June 1945 officially abolishing Nazi Germany ...
Events in the year 1919 in Germany. Incumbents. National level President ... (died 1945) 22 September – Franz Peter Wirth, German film director (died 1999)
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
The Potsdam Agreement on 2 August 1945 defined the new eastern German border by giving Poland and the Soviet Union all regions of Germany east of the Oder–Neisse line (eastern parts of Pomerania, Neumark, Posen-West Prussia, East-Prussia and most of Silesia) and divided the remaining "Germany as a whole" into four occupation zones, each ...
In referring to the entire period between 1871 and 1945, the partially translated English phrase "German Reich" (/-ˈ r aɪ k /) is applied by historians in formal contexts; [3] although in common English usage this state was and is known simply as Germany, the English term "German Empire" is reserved to denote the German state between 1871 and 1918.
The fact that a revolution by the working class in Germany never happened could be attributed to the "subjective factor", especially the absence of a "Marxist-Leninist offensive party". Contrary to the official party line, Rudolf Lindau supported the theory that the German revolution had a Socialist tendency.