German history

Prussia and beyond

The history of Germany, from ancient Germanic tribes through the Holy Roman Empire, unification under Bismarck in 1871, the World Wars, division into East and West, and reunification in 1990.

As a field of study, German history draws particular attention for the Nazi period and the Holocaust: She's writing her dissertation on German history.

Opposites
national/cultural history

German historyFrench history

Chronicle of France

Japanese history · Russian history · American history · British history · Chinese history

temporal scope

German historyfuturology

Study of coming times

current events · ancient history · medieval history · prehistory · classical antiquity

disciplinary focus

German historyworld history

Record of all peoples

human history · social history · economic history

Family

history, German

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG