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.
