Frequently the issue is the width of the door jamb. Modern homes -- by which I mean those build from the late 1960s to the present -- tend to have door jambs with fairly common exterior widths. They'll usually be 4 9/16 inches or 6 9/16 inches.
Germany did not just get a new government. The Allies made sure that Germany got a different kind of government. Before1914, the government of Germany was almost a military autocracy; after 1919, it was a parliamentary democracy.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. Between 1871 and 1918 at the end of the war Germany had a mix of democracy and monarchy. But in October 1918 at the end of the war they were forced to parliamentary democracy.