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The Southern states joined the federal state in 1870/71, which was consequently renamed the German Empire (1871–1918). The state continued as the Weimar Republic (1919–1933). Present-day Germany is a federal republic which combines the States of Germany.
After the war, Germany's and Austria-Hungary's loss of territory and the rise of communism in the Soviet Union meant that more Germans than ever constituted sizable minorities in various countries. [clarification needed] German nationalists used the existence of large German minorities in other countries as a basis for territorial claims.
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The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution (German: Novemberrevolution), was an uprising started by workers and soldiers in the final days of World War I. It quickly and almost bloodlessly brought down the German Empire , then, in its more violent second stage, the supporters of a parliamentary republic were ...
27 March – Peter Selz, German-born art historian (died 2019) 3 March – Loki Schmidt, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt (died 2010) 6 April – Heinz Schimmelpfennig, German actor (died 2010) 23 April – Anne Buydens, Belgian-American actress (died 2021) 3 May – Traute Lafrenz, German-American physician and anthropologist ...
The Commission supervised German administration in the occupied territory through a system of district delegates who were placed at the side of the respective local German administrative officers. [16] In March 1921, Germany created a special department within the Ministry of the Interior to handle matters relating to the occupied territories.