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The genius whose music has blessed the world, Beethoven had up to 30,000 people hear this said at his funeral; 'He whom you mourn is now among the greatest men of all time, unassailable forever. We who stand here at [his ] grave are in a sense the representatives of an entire nation, the whole German people, come to mourn the passing of one celebrated half of that which remained to us from the vanished brilliance of the fatherland.' the fatherland is germany's culture.
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How to unite German-speakers? Including Austrians or not? The 1815 congress of Vienna and later in 1848, elected politicians from all the German-speaking states chose the "small Germany" solution - without Austria, because of its overseas empire which included many non-German speakers.
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after the three victories for Prussia and its small German allies, most significantly after capturing Paris the french capital, the policy of war to unite the country had made Germany's rulers bold enough to have their opening ceremony in a foreign palace, the place where French rulers had sat. No greater statement of national pride can be pictured
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In Berlin the major European nations divide Africa into zones of colonisation
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the first car was made in germany by Karl Benz, later founder of mercedes-benz company
