The German Empire A Historical Retrospective of 1900

The Soviets then oversaw the creation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, commonly known as East Germany) out of their zone of occupation on October 7, 1949 ... redemptioners, as Germans called them. Immigrants would pay back the ... and from 1900 through 1950, the city consistently had the third largest German-. A rapid recovery began in 1949 and continued through the 1950s. Figure 8.1 shows Kuczynski's index of real gross wages (1900 = 100) for. German workers between ... At the end of their training they were allowed to go back into civilian life but could be called back to the army at any time up to the age of 45. Germany did not exist as a political unit until the latter part of the nineteenth century. First came the Zollverein (Toll Union) in 1833 that, by abolishing ... The Reichstag had 382 members until 1874; thereafter, it had 397. They were elected for a three-year period, which was extended to five years in 1888. Anglo-German rapprochement; the so-called War Council of 8. December 1912 ... Das Scheitern der deutschen Weltpolitik unter Biilou 1900-1906 (Dusseldorf 1973),. Planck had formulated his quantum theory in 1900 and achieved international fame as a result. ... Germany” and renounced his German citizenship. He also ... The privileges previously enjoyed by the German colonists had allowed them to run their own affairs, but Russian officials now regarded them as inconsistent ... Many Americans called it “the war to end all wars” because they believed ... France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. Germany joined Italy and.