Talk:History of Germany

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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 19, 2004	Refreshing brilliant prose	Kept
April 11, 2005	Featured article review	Demoted

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Section sizes

Section size for History of Germany (119 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	6,334	6,334
Prehistory	79	17,983
Paleolithic and Neolithic ages	8,264	8,264
Bronze Age	6,098	6,098
Iron Age	3,542	3,542
Early history: Germanic tribes, Roman conquests, and the Migration Period	79	14,487
Early migrations, the Suebi and the Roman Republic	5,019	5,019
Roman settlement of the Rhine	4,263	4,263
Migration Period and decline of the Western Roman Empire	2,343	2,343
Stem duchies and marches	2,783	2,783
Middle Ages	102	47,199
Frankish Empire	9,440	9,440
Foundation of the Holy Roman Empire	3,381	3,381
Otto the Great	7,434	7,434
Hanseatic League	3,211	3,211
Eastward expansion	5,361	5,361
Church and state	9,229	9,229
Towns and cities	3,940	3,940
Learning and culture	5,101	5,101
Early modern Germany	197	41,571
Social changes	8,592	8,592
Imperial reform	9,435	9,435
Protestant Reformation	4,744	4,744
Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648	4,048	4,048
Culture and literacy	4,865	4,865
Science	8,794	8,794
Colonies	896	896
1648–1815	16	26,988
Rise of Prussia	2,679	2,679
Wars	3,904	3,904
Enlightened absolutism	4,049	4,049
Smaller states	3,595	3,595
Social changes	1,685	1,685
Enlightenment	5,967	5,967
French Revolution, 1789–1815	1,619	5,093
French consulate suzerainty	1,300	1,300
Imperial French suzerainty	2,174	2,174
1815–1871	17	27,975
Overview	1,357	1,357
German Confederation	1,029	1,029
Society and economy	597	17,383
Population	1,070	1,070
Industrialization	3,336	3,336
Urbanization	485	485
Railways	2,899	2,899
Newspapers and magazines	1,374	1,374
Science and culture during the 18th and 19th century	3,744	3,744
Religion	3,878	3,878
Politics of restoration and revolution	76	8,189
After Napoleon	3,477	3,477
1848	1,084	1,084
1850s	565	565
Bismarck takes charge (1862–1866)	2,375	2,375
North German Confederation, 1866–1871	612	612
German Empire, 1871–1918	55	57,544
Overview	1,807	1,807
Bismarck era	715	23,825
The new empire	2,920	2,920
A federal empire	5,148	5,148
A three-class system: Aristocracy, middle class, and working class	6,148	6,148
Kulturkampf	5,581	5,581
Foreign policies and relations	3,313	3,313
Wilhelminian Era (1888–1918)	38	19,115
Wilhelm II	1,550	1,550
Alliances and diplomacy	6,387	6,387
Economy	6,130	6,130
Colonies	5,010	5,010
World War I	437	8,910
Causes	1,974	1,974
Western Front	1,643	1,643
Eastern Front	1,431	1,431
1918	1,176	1,176
Homefront	2,249	2,249
Revolution 1918	3,832	3,832
Weimar Republic, 1919–1933	59	14,479
Overview	1,364	1,364
The early years	4,947	4,947
Reparations	1,377	1,377
Economic collapse and political problems, 1929–1933	3,077	3,077
Science and culture in 19th and 20th century	3,655	3,655
Nazi Germany, 1933–1945	1,997	17,404
Establishment of the Nazi regime	3,566	3,566
Antisemitism and the Holocaust	3,577	3,577
Military	1,495	1,495
Foreign policy	2,688	2,688
World War II	4,081	4,081
Germany during the Cold War, 1945–1990	1,811	41,308
Expulsion	1,993	1,993
Post-war chaos	8,761	8,761
East Germany	5,701	5,701
West Germany (Bonn Republic)	1,380	20,110
Economic miracle	2,051	2,051
1948 currency reform	3,339	3,339
Adenauer	1,274	1,274
Erhard	2,930	2,930
Grand coalition	719	719
Guest workers	2,135	2,135
Brandt and Ostpolitik	2,022	2,022
Economic crisis of 1970s	3,253	3,253
Kohl	1,007	1,007
Reunification	2,932	2,932
Federal Republic of Germany, 1990–present	9,258	14,248
German government response to the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-22)	1,909	1,909
Post-COVID period (Since 2022)	3,081	3,081
See also	630	630
Notes	24	24
References	33	14,107
Works cited	14,074	14,074
Further reading	21	19,652
Surveys	3,047	3,047
Medieval	1,067	1,067
Reformation	789	789
Early Modern to 1815	2,002	2,002
1815–1890	2,501	2,501
1890–1933	2,629	2,629
Nazi era	1,800	1,800
Since 1945	2,265	2,265
GDR	1,516	1,516
Historiography	2,015	2,015
Total	361,933	361,933

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