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The largest economic and industrial power of Europe, Germany is also the most populous European country outside Russia Fertile northern plains stretch south from the North Sea and Baltic changing mountains of central and then upward to the rugged Schwarzwald Black Forest in the southwest and the Alps far south Germans are highly urbanized; about 86 percent live in cities and towns with a lower world birth rate, Germany is a magnet for foreign workers, some 7 3 million immigrants living here a German industry is well known Daimler, Siemens and Volkswagen; some, like the Transrapid maglev train Nordex wind turbines and the new technologies respectful of the environment.
Wir sind ein Volk We are a people, the crowd sang November 9, 1989, as East Germans breached the Berlin Wall a year later, just after midnight October 3, 1990, Germany was reborn One people, divided since the end of World War II, was a country still yet German unity is relatively new disparate Germanic principalities not meet until 1871, when the King of Prussia became Emperor Kaiser of Germany defeat in the World war cost Germany its empire and left the nation reeling under heavy repairs inflation and unemployment stalked democracy but fragile Weimar Republic in 1933, a demoralized population had turned to Adolf Hitler in Hitler rearmed Germany and invaded neighboring countries, the outbreak of the second World war, which killed 55 million people and devastated much of Europe when Germany surrendered in 19 45, he lost the lands of the east, as Prussia and Silesia, the Soviet Union and Poland the Allies divided the rest of the country and its capital, Berlin, i NTO four occupation zones This temporary partition persisted as tensions increased between the USSR and the other allied powers in 1949, the American zone, French and British formed the Federal Republic of West Germany, and the Soviet Union established the GDR East Germany Berlin Wall increased in 1961 to stop East Germans to flee to the west.
Joining two people after 45 years of separation was difficult economy in East Germany remains low unemployment is twice as high, forcing skilled people to go west for employment A bright spot east Berlin that the construction boom continues in the German capital and the largest city; Tourists come to see the innovative architecture, including the Reichstag building with its new glass dome A founding member of the European Union, Germany win of increased trade with the 2004 addition of the Czech Republic , Poland and others to join the EU.
Industry iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics.
Potato farming, wheat, barley, sugar beets; livestock.
Machinery exports, vehicles, chemicals, metals and manufactures, foodstuffs, textiles.
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