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| German People's Republic Deutsche Volksrepublik Timeline: We Didn't Start the Fire | ||||||
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| Motto: "Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt Euch!" ("Workers of the world, unite!") |
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| Anthem: Brüder, zur Sonne, zur Freiheit! "Brothers, to the sun, to freedom!" |
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South Germany (green)
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| Capital | Munich | |||||
| Official languages | German | |||||
| Demonym | South German • German | |||||
| Government | Federal Marxist-Liebknechtist directorial multi-party socialist republic | |||||
| - | Federal Worker's Councilors | Johanna Uekermann Natascha Kohnen |
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| - | Premier | Olaf Scholz | ||||
| - | Speaker of the Worker's Congress | Florian Pronold | ||||
| Legislature | Worker's Congress | |||||
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| - | Unification | 18 January 1871 | ||||
| - | Establishment of socialist republic | 17 October 1918 | ||||
| - | Official division | 15 September 1920 | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 2022 estimate | 24,621,610 | ||||
| Currency | German mark (DEM) |
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South Germany (German: Süddeutschland), officially the German People's Republic (German: Deutsche Volksrepublik) and unofficially referred to as the German Republic (German: Deutsche Republik), is a socialist country in Central Europe. It borders Poland-Lithuania to the east; Bohemia, East Austria, West Austria and Switzerland to the south; France and the Nederlands to the west; and North Germany to the north. Munich is the capital and largest industrial heartland of Germany.
Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon invaded the Holy Roman Empire and established the Confederation of the Rhine and several other puppet states, although they would initially collapse after Napoleon's loss. However, the idea of German unity arose, and after two confederations and wars with Austria and France, the German Empire was formed in 1871.
After a major naval arms race with the Commonwealth in the 1900s and rising tensions with Russia and France, World War I broke out in 1914. At first, things went well for Germany, but after the United States and Brazil intervened in 1917, things started going bad for the nation. In 1918, after failed offensives, a communist revolution overthrew Kaiser Wilhelm II and established the German Soviet Republic - the internal conflict expanded into a massive civil war, which ended in a stalemate, and resulted in Germany being divided north and south. After World War II, South Germany emerged as a major continental superpower, and was the main leader of Marxism-Liebknechtism and communism in the Cold War, although relations were normalised in the mid-1990s.