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Official name for the German nation state from 1871 to 1945, and name of Germany until 1949
Germany’s age of sexual consent is 14 under current law; that rule traces back to the Imperial Criminal Code of 1872 and was retained through post‑war divisions and reunification, with modern statutor...
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump) was born on 14 March 1869 in the village of Kallstadt (then in the Palatinate, part of the Kingdom of Bavaria), according to multiple genealogical and historical...
The phrase that “The Council of the People’s Deputies some of the Empire’s harsh restrictions, such as on freedom of expression” conflates actions by different bodies in different moments; contemporar...
Yes — dogs plainly existed and were a visible part of German society and culture in 1899: elite and popular accounts show long-standing dog ownership (including “Reichshunde” associated with Bismarck)...
Friedrich Trump (born Friedrich Drumpf) arrived in the United States in October 1885 as a 16‑year‑old from Germany, according to historical summaries; available reporting notes the date and his age bu...
Most late‑19th‑century German emigrants came from a mix of western, central and increasingly eastern German lands — with large flows from regions such as the Rhineland/Hesse area earlier in the centur...