German History

The origins of the German people can be traced all the way back to the earliest of times. Migration, the commingling of tribes, invasions and the passage of time all played vital roles in the evolution and formation of what was to become the German people.

The Federal Republic of Germany is still relatively young, having emerged only after World War II, however, German ancestors have a thousand-year-old history that goes back all the way to ancient times: the age of the barbaric invasions and the fall of the Roman Empire, the creation of the Sacro Germanic Roman Empire, the confrontation between the papacy and the empire, the Reform, the Confederation of the Rhine, the German unification, the World War I defeat, the barbarous national-socialism, the reconstruction after World War II, the German economic miracle, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification.