Germany

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**Germany** (officially the **Federal Republic of Germany** and formerly **West Germany**, **East Germany**, **Nazi Germany** and **German Empire**, is a country located in central Europe, bordered by France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Switzerland. Germany is a federal republic made up of several states. The country's capital is Berlin.

Germany is one of the strongest countries in Europe and the European Union, and a founding member of the Terran Alliance. They successfully defended themselves from a Separatist invasion during the Clone Wars, and have contributed to the Anti-Sith Assault Team.

## History

### Early History

The territory that became Germany was originally inhabited by the indigenous Germanic tribes of the region. These tribe eventually became small kingdoms squabbling for control of the region, until they were united into the Holy Roman Empire under Otto I in 962. Overtime, the empire became to weaken and the empire turned into a a confederation of kingdom-states. The states of Prussia and Austria began to annex territory located outside the empire, forming their own. The empire itself eventually collapsed in 1806 at the hands of Napoléon, the emperor of France.

### Peak of Power

Prussia, the strongest of the German states began to spread a sense of nationality throughout the former empire, offering protect in exchange for loyal to the Prussian crown. Under the leadership of Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck, Prussia united all of the states, except Austria into the German Empire. Germany managed to obtain a colonial empire over the years in Africa and the Pacific Ocean. They later formed the Central Powers with their allies Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire before fighting World War I against the Entente. Germany surrendered in 1918, and were forced to pay a huge debt, and reorganize their government from a monarchy to a democracy.

### Nazi Regime

Depression hit the country which led to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in 1933. Hitler took control of Germany and much of Europe, only to be defeated by the Allies in World War II.

### Cold War

Germany was later divided by the United States of America and the Soviet Union into West and East Germany throughout the Terran Cold War. The two sides remained divided for nearly five decades until its reunification in 1989.

## Politics and Government

Germany is a democratic and federal parliamentary republic, where federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag (the parliament of Germany) and the Bundesrat (the representative body of the Länder, Germany's regional states).

## Military

The **Bundeswehr** or **German Federal Armed Forces** is the unified armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany, founded in November 12, 1955 on Bonn, West Germany as a military for of Germany since the Cold War. The Bundeswehr is divided into a military part and a civil part, the military part consisting of the German Army (Heer), the German Navy (Marine), German Air Force (Luftwaffe) and other 3 Services in the German Armed Forces. They were part of NATO's military force since 1955 until it's reunification with former communist East Germany and it's armed forces known as the **National People's Army** or **NVA** for short, inheriting all of the equipment from the eastern counterpart.

Upon the arrival of the Galactic Republic on Earth, the Bundeswehr carried the call of duty to fight against the invading Seperatists with the combined force of both former West and East German troops in the unified Bundeswehr and later joined the Clone Wars as part of the newly formed Terran Alliance until in 1994 when Sheev Palpatine enacted the Order 66 which resulted to the deaths of many Jedis and their Terran Allies after the Clones turned against them as the war comes into closure. In 2013 AD, the German Armed Forces joined with it's fellow Terran allies to fight in the first Galactic Civil War against their former ally which turned into a tyrannical Galactic Empire and support the Rebel Alliance in order to restore the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order that has been destroyed during the Order 66. In total, the German Armed Forces has atleast 800,000 to 1 Million troops on their ranks in both Terran Ground Forces, Terran Starfleet and Terran Marine Corps.

The previous militaries of Germany was the Imperial German Armed Forces, the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht, they were all historical armed forces of Germany in both World War I, Inter-war period and World War II.

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*