Questions tagged [germany]
For questions on German Empire, Weimar Republic, German Democratic Republic and the modern Federal Republic of Germany. Questions regarding the Third Reich should be tagged with Nazi-Germany.
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Why was "superfest" glass unsuccessful outside East Germany?
Inventors in communist East Germany invented a glass that was less likely to break. It was called superfest (super-strong) glass and was used for mass-producing beer glasses and other drinking glasses....
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Why were U-Boat attacks on naval vessels (especially destroyers) such a rare occurrence?
I can understand why the U-Boats didn't attack naval vessels when the ships were aware of their presence, particularly in situations where the Allies were using the convey system. But I don't often ...
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Was there gender-bias in votes for Nazis in Weimar Republic?
In the historically quite accurate book Märzgefallene it is claimed that women tended to vote for Hitler in 1932-33, while Wikipedia claims that the votes for the NSDAP were not gender-biased, but I ...
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Why did Germany allow and help introduce the Deutsche Mark to Montenegro?
On the Dutch Wikipedia article on the Deutsche Mark, it says (without citation):
Als reactie op hyperinflatie en prijsstijgingen in Servië voerde Montenegro op 2 november 1999, in samenwerking met de ...
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Was immigration limited to the Volksdeutsche during the Third Reich?
The Volksdeutsche were ethnic German populations living in Greater Europe, and other parts of the world (but in this context we're mainly discussing European Volksdeutsche population). One of Hitler's ...
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How did people remain unaware of Nazi Concentration Camps when they were located within villages/townships in Germany?
Before delving into WW2 History, I used to think that Concentration Camps for the most part were either in Occupied Poland or Ukraine, to keep it away from the German population and make it easier to ...
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Were Karl Witte and Sergei Witte related?
Karl Witte (1800-1883) was the German jurist and Dante scholar who famously had a strong education from his father from a young age and got his doctorate at 12 or 13.
Sergei Witte (1849-1915) was a ...
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What was the nature of the offered "negotiations about East Prussia" in 1990?
According to an article in Der Spiegel from 2010, during the negotiations for the Two Plus Four Agreement about German unity in 1990, the negotiator for the Soviet Union, Geli Batenin, offered ...
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How did the USSR justify the deportation of Germans under international law?
When the USSR acquired Kaliningrad at the end of WW2 they deported (or 'transferred') pretty much the entire German population out of there.
(See for instance N. Eaton pp. 229-231)
But around the same ...
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How many German/Austro-Hungarian men were mobilized in the western front by late 1915/1916?
Is there a somewhat accurate figure of the number of German and Austro-Hungarian forces mobilized in the western front in late 1915/1916?
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Who are the three civilians in this 1933 postcard from the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam?
I have this postcard from 1933 that I intend to use on my website about Berlin and the surrounding area, but I'm a little unsure of what it is that you see in the picture. It is clearly from the ...
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Why did German typewriters not use Fraktur?
Fraktur was the dominant typeface in Germany for centuries until the Nazis suddenly stopped using it in WWII.
I read citation needed that the Nazis, before they suddenly marked Fraktur as "Jewish&...
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How did the Soviet victory at Nomonhan influence German thinking and planning?
In 1939, Japan and the Soviet Union fought an undeclared border war in Manchuria, which culminated with the Japanese defeat at Nomonhan in late August.
... the Red Army in a few days enveloped and ...
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When did the sectors in West Berlin cease to exist?
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Berlin used to be split not just into two (East and West), but within the west there were 3 sectors controlled by the French, the British and the Americans. Some remnants ...
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In which town of Europe (Germany ?) were this 2 photos taken during WWII?
These two photographs have been in my family for many years.
I am almost sure they were taken during WWII, most probably in Germany. I have no idea by whom.
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