Germany is home to nearly 81.8 million people and has the largest population out of any country in the European Union. Germany's capital is Berlin. Germany was the cause of world war ll when Hitler and the NAZI party took control of the country and their government. Hitler came to power in 1933. On September 1, 1939, the German Wehrmacht launched a blitzkrieg on Poland. Quite a few years later Germany and the axis ally's lost world war ll and lost all of their recognition in the world and had many war crimes accused to them and also had the fall of the wall of Berlin on August 19, 1989.
Due to the Bonn-Berlin act on March 10, 1994, Berlin became the capital of the reformed Germany. Since Germany was reunified they have played a bigger role in the European nation and NATO. Since then Germany has sent a peacekeeping force to help with stability in the Balkans and also sent some troops into Afghanistan after the uprising of the taliban. The deployment of these troops were highly controversial because of what they did in world war ll. They were only supposed to deploy troops for the cause of defense. But the parliamentary vote legalized these actions because they were an act of peacekeeping. In 2005, Angela Merkel was elected to be the first female chancellor of Germany. She mantained that position untill 2009.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html
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