The history of Germany's reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 illustrates the point.
If you look back into the history of Germany or Japan, or the United States, you typically find a period when the Magic Formula is in full effect.
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As a captive of history, Germany appears to be creating the conditions for a Europe wide meltdown.
It is only the second time in the 55-year history of Eurovision that Germany has won, after Nicole's A Little Peace in 1982.
In the early exhibitions there was no attempt to display paintings chronologically or even geographically, but with the growth of art history in Germany this gradually became more common, as did the idea of panoramic displays of the work of a single artist, which by 1900 had become a standard way of commemorating their anniversaries.
Although there is no history of minstrel shows in Germany, Mr Schendel says "blackface is part of a theatre tradition" in Germany.
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Still, the study of America's history and that of Canada, Brazil and even Germany offers lessons.
By her own history, as a daughter of East Germany, Mrs Merkel is averse to division within Europe.
Germany has an infamous history of attacking bankers, lenders and traders, and going overboard to discredit the value of finance versus manufacturing.
Young western Germans know more of East Germany's history.
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Whether you can use such a serious aspect of Germany's recent history for parody remains a matter of debate in the country, where the Nazi era is still quite a sensitive and painful topic for some to discuss.
His own history, coupled with the recent planned abolition of Germany's tax on capital gains from share sales, suggest that he will take an aggressive line.
"This shows both a level of commercialism and a certain betrayal of history and heritage that some fans both in Germany and in other countries find unacceptable, " said Chadwick.
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The next year in my 20th Century History class we were assigned a paper comparing the occupations of Germany and Japan after World War II with the contemporary occupation of Iraq.
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It was Germany under Hitler that changed the course of history for Egypt and the Middle East.
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The high speed train crash in Germany is set to become one of the worst train disasters in European history.
It was one of the biggest far-right demonstrations in Germany's post-war history.
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Earlier, Katrin Wagner-Augustin of Germany lost out on her second attempt at becoming the second woman in Olympic history to win a gold medal at four consecutive Games after helping take silver in the women's kayak four (K4).
It was in November 1938 the darkest, most ominous year for the Jews of Europe in eighteen centuries that the worst pogrom in modern history, Kristallnacht, was instigated by the Nazis all across Germany: synagogues incinerated, the residences and businesses of Jews destroyed, and, throughout a night presaging the monstrous future, Jews by the thousands forcibly taken from their homes and transported to concentration camps.
And Here, Today, recounting an exile's return to the ruined and rebuilding Germany of the 1950's is a search into the past, a search for meaning in history, all contained in the account of a three week visit to Berlin in 1954.
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