For or against the Unity of Germany?

[Red Gold]

For or against the Unity of Germany?

As today is "the day of German Unity" in Germany, I am asking this question.

 

[Red Gold]

I have now voted: for the Unity

 

[Andrewn]

For or against the Unity of Germany? As today is "the day of German Unity" in Germany, I am asking this question.

Is there any movement against the unity of Germany?

Before its reunification in 1990, Germany was only unified from 1871 to 1945, which is really a short period of history. But you can educate me about this.

 

[Red Gold]

Is there any movement against the unity of Germany?

Not really a movement - just some disgruntled voices.
A minority.

 

[Estrid]

For or against the Unity of Germany?

As today is "the day of German Unity" in Germany, I am asking this question.

Depends on what they call Germany

I hear a lot of Western complaints about the unification of China.

 

[Red Gold]

Before its reunification in 1990, Germany was only unified from 1871 to 1945, which is really a short period of history. But you can educate me about this.

Germany has been a united country from some time before the year 1000 until the Time of Napoleon some time after 1900.

That's quite some time.

 

[Red Gold]

Depends on what they call Germany

I hear a lot of Western complaints about the unification if China.

Well - what do YOU call "Germany"?

 

[Estrid]

Well - what do YOU call "Germany"?

I dunno. But my vague ww2 history involves something about Austria,
much of Poland, and something about a lot of territory to the east.

 

[Estrid]

Germany has been a united country from some time before the year 1000 until the Time of Napoleon some time after 1900.

That's quite some time.

United in what sense?

 

[JesusTheMessiah]

For or against the Unity of Germany?

As today is "the day of German Unity" in Germany, I am asking this question.

Is it an issue in Germany?

I‘m pro unity, but still wondering why you would ask that. It didn‘t came to my ears here in Vienna, that there are

some disgruntled voices.

 

[Estrid]

Is it an issue in Germany?

I‘m pro unity, but still wondering why you would ask that. It didn‘t came to my ears here in Vienna, that there are

You will hear it if they try to unify you again

 

[Red Gold]

I‘m pro unity, but still wondering why you would ask that. It didn‘t came to my ears here in Vienna, that there are

There are some such dis-gruntled voices - both in the West and in the East.

 

[Red Gold]

I dunno. But my vague ww2 history involves something about Austria .....

I think this thread is a bit to small to cover the complete history of Germany from the year Zero up to now. The history of Germany is a bit longer than the history of the US - if I may say so in all politeness.

 

[Estrid]

I think this thread is a bit to small to cover the complete history of Germany from the year Zero up to now. The history of Germany is a bit longer than the history of the US - if I may say so in all politeness.

So? I'm Chinese.

 

[Red Gold]

OK - the history of Germany may be a bit shorter than the history of China

But still too much for a single thread..


If you wish, you can tell me the history of all of China in a single thread once.

 

[Estrid]

OK - the history of Germany may be a bit shorter than the history of China

But still too much for a single thread..


If you wish, you can tell me the history of all of China in a single thread once.

China uber alles?

 

[Red Gold]

Depends on what they call Germany

I hear a lot of Western complaints about the unification of China.

Here anyone who is interested in the whole history of Germany can read up on it:

The concept of Germany as a distinct region in Central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France). The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) prevented annexation by the Roman Empire, although the Roman provinces of Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were established along the Rhine. Following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Franks conquered the other West Germanic tribes. When the Frankish Empire was divided among Charles the Great's heirs in 843, the eastern part became East Francia. In 962, Otto I became the first Holy Roman Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the medieval German state.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany

 

[Red Gold]

Now there are three votes for the Unity!

 

[Red Gold]

And now for some modern history:

The Franco-German friendship became the basis for the political integration of Western Europe in the European Union.

In 1989, the Berlin Wall was opened, the Eastern Bloc collapsed, and East Germany was reunited with West Germany in 1990. In 1998–1999, Germany was one of the founding countries of the eurozone. Germany remains one of the economic powerhouses of Europe, contributing about one-quarter of the eurozone's annual gross domestic product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany

 

[Red Gold]

About German Unity Day:

German Unity Day (German: Tag der Deutschen Einheit) is the National Day in Germany, celebrated on 3 October as a public holiday.[1] It commemorates German reunification in 1990 when the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) were unified, so that for the first time since 1945 there existed a single German state. German Unity Day on 3 October has been the German National Holiday since 1990, when the reunification was formally completed.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Unity_Day