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.
   Germany's government is a representative, parliamentary democracy and a federal republic consisting of 16 states. The parliament consists of two chambers, the Bundestag which is directly elected every four years, and the Bundesrat which is made up of representatives from the 16 state governments.