Germany

The currency of West Germany from June 1948 onwards was the Deutsche Mark, divided into 100 Pfennige. East Germany used the Mark der Deutschen Notenbank instead. In 1990 the West German currency was adopted in East Germany some months before reunification. Note that since 2002 the only legal tender currency in Germany is the Euro.

The union of Germany and Austria was called the "Anschluss" and occured in 1938.

Germany has been home to people since well before recorded history. In that light, no one "discovered" it. People had just "been there" a long, long time, and eventually sovereign boundaries were set up and the kingdom or country of Germany appeared.

Germany was established as a sovereign nation-state on 18 January 1871, but there had been forerunners.

The agreement reached at the Munich Conference sought to compromise with Germany by offering it some territory in Czechoslovakia

Switzerland

And - even if I wrote it already in quite a few answers - it was at least not only due to Swiss bank dealings with rich Germans or industrials dealing with the axis. Switzerland had a general mobilisation leading to up to 450'000 soldiers guarding its borders, dynamite armament of all bridges and tunnels from north to south (to be blown up in case of invasions), the "reduced Switzerland" defence plan, and a completely free - and very famous - European radio station informing about the war situation... during the first months of war there were clashes between German luftwaffe and the Swiss airforce, a German revenge mission with so-called "destroyer" planes and an attempt to send pioneers to blow up Swiss airfields...

But in fact Germany had several invasion plans for Switzerland and it was most probably a combination of all this (and much luck) that saved the country...

parlamentary
Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 states (similar to the USA's 50 states). The President is not elected directly but is chosen by the parliament members and a special council. The Chancellor (similar to a Prime Minister) is the head of government who's party is elected and holds a majority in parliament.

soviet union

Germany was divided in 1945 into 5 zones of occupation, one of which became a permanent part of Poland. The Russian zone became East Germany in 1949 and the French, British and American zones joined together to become West Germany in 1955. The two states united in 1990, although constitutionally East Germany became several extra 'lander' of West Germany.

They didn't have a President in 1961. President Wilhelm Pieck ruled from 1949 to 1960 and then Walter Ulbricht was the Chairman of the Council of State (Vorsitzender des Staatsrats) (from 1960 until he died in 1973.

The reference to 'occupied' is odd. Berlin was the capital of Germany from 1871-1949 and became the capital again in 1990. Until the final collapse of the Third Reich in April-May, 1945 the city was in German hands. It then passed briefly to the Soviet Union. Later in 1945, the city was divided into four sectors (British, French, Sovier and American). With the division off Germany into East and West, the three Western sectors were administered as a single unit for most purposes.

Sweden and Norway

8 to 9 hours if the the flight stops, but about 6 or 7 hours if it is straight to Germany without stops. although it really depends on where you are coming from.

what about flyng from Germany to Pennslvaina

· Berlin, Germany

· Hamburg, Germany

· Munich, Germany

· Cologne, Germany

· Frankfurt, Germany

· Stuttgart, Germany

· Dusseldorf, Germany

· Dortmund, Germany

· Essen, Germany

· Bremen, Germany

Neville Chamberlain was a signatory of the Munich Agreement.

From 1871 to 1918 the area of Germany was a little over 215,000 square miles - slightly bigger than present day France. (Germany now covers an area of 137,000 square miles, a reduction of about 36%).

Nazi Germany was subjected to an utterly devastating and total defeat in WW2, and in view of its appalling record of aggression and inhumanity the Allies insisted on regime change. The Nazis had to surrender unconitionally in May 1945 and the Allies were legally able to do what they chose with Germany.

Yes it is. We sell German war flags , but it would be illegal, under German law, for us to send them to Germany. This is also the case in Hungary and Brazil. Each time we sell overseas we have to check the law within the country.

* Oil and natural gas * Chemicals * Foodstuffs * Motor vehicles

The main reason for Germany losing the war was the massive hordes on the eastern front, which they could not stop. Also Hitler made bad mistakes his plan of the Easter front was holding ground his field commanders wanted a flexible defense strategy so they could outflank and encircle the soviets. another reason would be that any nation cannot fight a war on 2 fronts and win. even if it had not have happened in 45, it would have been in 46, 47, 48 etc. But it would end in Allied Victory.

Their are several reasons for Germany's loss of World War II. I will answer this to the best of my abilities. The first and one of the most important is the fact that Hitler postponed his invasion of Britain, after The Battle of Britain which was an air battle that Germany lost. After which Germany could have still invaded Britain with overwhelming force. Whether he would have won this battle is unsure, but after postponing Operation Sea-Lion, he decided to invade Russia. Horrible mistake. Russia, although unprepared, had a massive army and lots of resources. And with the aid of the other allies, Russia defeated them.

No, ther are just shorelines in the north of Germany

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