German History
German culture with Bach, Beethoven, Goethe and the Brothers Grimm leave an enduring legacy of the importance of Mittel-Europa and the eventual coalescing of Saxony and Prussia and other smaller states into Germany. The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71, the only war Germany won, introduced industrial scale warfare to the world. Germany became the largest country in Europe whose economic powerhouse drives all of Europe.
Germany defeated, after World War 2, withstood Russian expansion firmly preventing Communism from engulfing all of Western Europe.
Dresden, the subject of Kurt Wonnegut's SchlossFunf, was rebuilt by the Russians and East Germans. The GelsenKirche was refurbished painstakingly by 2006.
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