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  Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Germany is a federal republic whose 16 states have their own constitutions, legislatures, and governments, which can pass laws on all matters except those that are the exclusive right of the federal government such as defense, foreign affairs, and finance.
The chief theater of the war, Germany was reduced to misery and starvation, lost a large part of its population, and became, as a result of the Peace of Westphalia (1648; see Westphalia, Peace of), a loose confederation of petty principalities under the nominal suzerainty of the emperor.
In Mar., 1936, Germany remilitarized the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
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 Germany (09/05)
Germany concluded four treaties with the Soviet Union covering the overall bilateral relationship, economic relations, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the territory of the former G.D.R., and German support for those troops.
Germany continues to be active economically in the states of central and eastern Europe and to actively support the development of democratic institutions, bilaterally and through the EU.
Germany stands at the center of European affairs and is a key partner in U.S. relations with Europeans in NATO and the European Union.
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 Undoing Germany's Colonial Amnesia | Current Affairs | Deutsche Welle | 15.09.2004
Germany's colonial past was almost entirely erased from the public's memory.
The issue of Germany's colonial legacy has gone beyond the halls of academia, where a few experts debated its significance in relative obscurity, and into the realm of popular culture.
Germany's ambassador to Namibia has called on the Herero people to drop a $4 billion (€3.3 billion) lawsuit filed three years ago in US courts for atrocities committed under colonial rule.
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 lec5
Germany during the 1920s and early 1930s at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval; Legend of stab in the back; inflation; domestic conflict.
Germany's military defeat in 1918 was blamed on the Jews and the Socialists.
Germany forced to accept responsibility for war and punitive reparations for destruction of life and property, felt betrayed; The incipient National Socialist Party (Nazis) used the war guilt and territorial clauses of the Treaty as a basis for rallying Germany to unity from 1919-1939.
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 List of German colonial ministers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page lists Colonial Ministers of Imperial Germany.
Directors of the Colonial Department in the Foreign Secretariat, 1890-1907
This page was last modified 02:40, 1 November 2005.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
The four largest Afghan opposition groups met in Bonn, Germany, in late 2001 and agreed on a plan for the formulation of a new government structure that resulted in the inauguration of Hamid KARZAI as Chairman of the Afghan Interim Authority (AIA) on 22 December 2001.
The colony was turned over to Spain two years later and the islands have since been the subject of a territorial dispute, first between Britain and Spain, then between Britain and Argentina.
Malaysia was formed in 1963 through a merging of the former British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, including the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern coast of Borneo.
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 afrol News - Germany pays for colonial errors in Namibia
Germany has said it is prepared to support a long-term reconciliation programme to address the injustices of German colonial rule in Namibia about 100 years ago.
Heidemarie Wiecczorek-Zeul, Germany's Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, has announced that Germany is willing to bankroll an "initiative for reconciliation" to the tune of N$ 160 million over a period of 10 years.
The Minister made her announcement in a speech on Tuesday, when she and Bishop Zephania Kameeta received the Peter Beier Award of the Evangelical Church in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany.
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 Philipp Scheidemann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the First World War, Scheidemann, along with Friedrich Ebert was leader of the majority faction of the party, which continued to vote for war credits, while at the same time urging the negotiation of a compromise peace.
When the Social Democrats were included in the cabinet for the first time in Prince Max of Baden's government in October 1918, Scheidemann entered the government as a minister without portfolio.
March 1919 - Dr. Georg Gothein (DDP) enters the cabinet as Treasury Minister.
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Elected as deputy of the 5th Saeima (1993) of the Republic of Latvia, Birkavs was prime minister from July 1993 to September 1994, and, as of September 15, foreign minister and deputy prime minister in the government headed by Maris Gailis.
He became foreign minister in 1974 in the government headed by Konstantinos Karamanlis that followed the fall of the military dictatorship and the restoration of democracy that year.
It was a key appointment, as Blair announced that on becoming prime minister he would make his three top priorities "education, education, education." When Labour won the 1997 general election, Blunkett became education secretary, with the task of raising school standards to match those of other prosperous countries.
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 ipedia.com: Philipp Scheidemann Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Although the new government intended to support a constitutional monarchy, probably in the person of one of the Kaiser's grandsons, Scheidemann, concerned in the face of a possible workers' revolution in Berlin, proclaimed the Republic from a balcony in the Reichstag building, without consulting any of his colleagues.
Scheidemann continued to serve as a leader in the Provisional Government which followed for the next several months, and following the meeting of the National Assembly in Weimar in February 1919, Ebert was appointed President of Germany, and Scheidemann became Chancellor, in coalition with the German Democratic Party and the Catholic Center Party.
Scheidemann resigned in June along with the DDP due to disagreement with the Treaty of Versailles, and never again served in the government, although he remained active in politics, serving as Mayor of Kassel (1920-1925), and then again as a Reichstag delegate, where he exposed military opposition to the Republic.
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 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Germany admits Namibia genocide
Germany has offered its first formal apology for the colonial-era massacre of some 65,000 members of the Herero tribe by German troops in Namibia.
German minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul told a commemorative ceremony that the brutal crushing of the Herero uprising 100 years ago was genocide.
Germany argues that international laws to protect civilians were not in force at the time of the conflict.
newswww.bbc.net.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3565938.stm   (336 words)

  
 AP Worldstream: Germany apologizes for colonial-era genocide of Namibia's Herero people@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Germany apologizes for colonial-era genocide of Namibia's Herero people
A senior government official offered Germany's first apology for a colonial-era crackdown that killed 65,000 ethnic Hereros _ a slaughter she acknowledged amounted to genocide.
"We Germans accept our historic and moral responsibility and the guilt incurred by Germans at that time," Germany's development aid minister, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, said at a ceremony Saturday marking the 100th anniversary of the Hereros' 1904-1907 uprising against their German rulers.
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 Fischer Calls for Permanent German Troop Occupation of Yugoslavia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, addressing Parliament on Wednesday, expressed his opinion that Germany should not only provide material help to Yugoslavia but that the Bundeswehr [the German Army] and non-military organizations should establish a permanent presence there.
Germany's secret service, the Bundes Nachrichtendienst (BND) collaborated closely with the CIA in the various stages of the 78 day bombing of Yugoslavia, and also after the bombing.
The US and Germany seem to have agreed on this division of territory and their respective spheres of influence.
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 Davids Medienkritik: Germany's Critique of the U.S.: One-Way Street Only
You should be lucky that Germany finally begins adopting the culture of pros and cons, it is part of the process of becoming a normal nation rather than a reason for whining.
Germany hasn't spent trillions of dollars and millions of casualties over the course of more than a century defending freedom and promoting democracy.
Germany's largest trade union, IG Metall, ran the above cover on its May 2005 union magazine 'metall.' The cover reads "US Firms in Germany: The (Blood)suckers" IG Metall defended the cover as a "good caricature." More here...
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 Smartass Interwar
There were sections on the boundaries of Germany, German colonies, Germany's military naval and air forces, prisoners of war, penalties and reparations (Clause 231 was in this section), economic clauses (rules about trade, shipping, ports and railways etc), the International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations.
Since Germany signed voluntarily, this was seen as a replacement of the Treaty of Versailles, and signalled the beginning of its failure.
One of the reasons for appeasement was that Britain couldn't afford to defend her empire in the east against Japan at the same time as fighting a war against Germany in the west.
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 FrontPage magazine.com :: Islam’s Nazi Connections by Serge Trifkovic
SS chief Heinrich Himmler was known to remark that he regretted that Germany had adopted Christianity, rather than "warlike" Islam, as its religion, and there is a disturbing amount of twisted but very real logic in his remark.
The Nazis began by attempting to exploit Arab resentment of the British and French colonial rule that they were under during the 1930’s, colonial rule which, in light of the subsequent bloody and tyrannical history of the region, it is hard to condemn today as worse than the likely alternative.
When he met Hitler, on November 21, 1941, he declared that the Arabs are Germany’s natural friends, ready to cooperate with the Reich with all their hearts by the formation of an Arab Legion.
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 BBC News | AFRICA | Namibian land minister visits Germany, Austria
The Namibian minister responsible for land issues, Pendukeni Ithana, has begun a trip to Germany and Austria to seek funds for the government's land reform programme.
State radio said her departure coincided with a statement from the prime minister, Hage Geingob, that Namibia would rather accept foreign involvement in its land reform programme than face the kind of crisis seen in Zimbabwe.
Namibia's land reforms are mainly aimed at taking control of land currently owned by absentee owners, many of whom live in the former colonial power, Germany, or Austria.
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 TV actress dies as gunman approaches | The San Diego Union-Tribune
It was a part of a series of attacks against foreigners and foreign interests since a disputed presidential election Sunday was officially awarded to Faure Gnassingbe, the candidate of the long-governing party.
It followed an accusation by the interior minister that Germany, Togo's former colonial ruler, was conspiring with opposition politicians.
Prime Ministers Junichiro Koizumi of Japan and Manmohan Singh of India also signed a statement agreeing to work together on economic issues.
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 Asean News Network: Asean's Press Freedom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
While freedom of the press is one of the main pillars of many developed countries—such as Hong Kong, the US, Germany, UK or even Australia, the same thing cannot be said about some of the member nations of the Assocation of Southeast Asian Nations.
Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew was a major backer of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Lee Hsien Loong, the Singapore prime minister, said last week that he did not believe that Singapore should adopt an "idealised form" of liberal democracy, explaining it was unsuitable for the country...
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Politicians
This sub-section of the Who's Who category of the site contains folio biographies of the politicians who guided belligerent nations throughout four years of war from 1914-18.
They include entries for the two British wartime Prime Ministers, the U.S. President (and his two secretaries of state), plus the three German Chancellors who found themselves subordinated to the German military machine.
In addition to the biographies presented below, click here to view contemporary photographs of politicians within the Vintage Photographs section of the site.
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 Philipp Scheidemann -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Beginning his career as a journalist, Scheidemann became a (additional info and facts about Reichstag) Reichstag delegate for the Social Democrats in 1903, and soon rose to be one of the principal leaders of the party.
When the Social Democrats were included in the cabinet for the first time in (additional info and facts about Prince Max of Baden's) Prince Max of Baden's government in October 1918, Scheidemann entered the government as a minister without portfolio.
Johannes Bell ((The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet) Z) - (additional info and facts about Transportation Minister) Transportation Minister and (additional info and facts about Colonial Minister) Colonial Minister
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 Winston Churchill
Famous British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Term: 1940-1945 Prime minister of the United Kingdom
Famous Quote, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." May 13, 1940; part of Churchill's first speech as prime minister to the House of Commons
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 Internet Modern History Sourcebook: 19th Century Germany
Otto von Bismarck: Letter to Minister von Manteuffel, 1856
A War Correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870 [At this Site]
Unification of Germany and Italy in Maps, 1850-1873 [At Clinch Valley College]
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