GERMANY:
ITS BACKGROUND OF WAR
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(AP News Features)
Ever since the legions of Jul
ius Caesar smashed to the Rhine
in 59 B. C., the soil of what now
is Germany has been stained fre
quently with the blood of war. If
the Allies meet stiff battle in the
Reich, history will be repeating
itself on old battlefields.
Wars in Germany raged for
centuries as small factions and
large contested for this hard core
of Europe. Wars were fought by
greedy princes, ambitious rulers
of Church and State inside Eu
rope, and empire builders seek
ing to subdue the Germanic
people.
The history of modern Ger
many may be said to begin in
843 when, by the Treaty of Ver
dun, the empire of Charles the
Great, was divided among his
grandsons.
Louis the German received me
eastern portion of the Frankish
i empire, composed of the German
ic peoples. The rest passed into
four countries, each ruled by its
own duke.
Among the fiercest invasions of
German soil was one undertaken,
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by Hungarian horsemen in 924.
Battles raged for 31 years at in- j
tervals until Hungary finally was
defeated. Holy wars, in which
Germanic factions were divided
over the Catholic and Protestant
churches went on Inside Ger
many intermittently—from 1314
to 1648. Then, following the “30
Years’ War”, religious rights
were granted to sovereign Catho
lic and Protestant princes in the 1
empire.
Prussianism inside Germany
was established after bloody con
tests with Austria, during which
Maria Theresa of Austria invad
ed Bavaria, during a campaign
in which Frederick the Great
j sought to annex Silesia to the
j Empire, a plan which eventually
succeeded.
Germany came under the
French guns when Napoleon de
feated Frederick William in
1792. Napoleon put a temporary
end to strife between Prussia and ,
Austria by separating the two in
the treaty which set up the Con
federation of the Rhine. When
Napoleon met his downfall, how
ever, Germany reestablished its
own confederation at the Con
gress of Vienna in 1815.
Lately, the Germans have done
most of their fighting on other
people’s soil. French armies
stormed through German-held
Alsace Lorraine in 1914, but
were beaten back, and in 1939,
during the “paper war” which
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preceded the heavy fighting be
tween the Allies and Germany in
1940, there were border clashes
between the opposing forces, the
French frequently sending small
units across the frontier.
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