20th century in Germany

thumb|right|The USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)|USS Los Angeles, a [[United States Navy airship built in Germany by the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin (Zeppelin Airship Company) ]]

official name for the German nation state from 1871 to 1945, and name of Germany until 1949

border which separated the territories of the FRG and the GDR

'''''' (, ) refers to the theory in German historiography that considers the German-speaking lands or the country of Germany itself to have followed a course from aristocracy to democracy unlike any other in Europe.

bilateral diplomatic relations

Characterology () is the academic study of character which was prominent in German-speaking countries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is considered a historic branch of personality psychology, which extended into psychoanalysis and sociology.

thumb|Anton von Schmerling from Austria: on July 15th, 1848 he belonged to the first three men that the Reichsverweser installed as German Reichsminister. Reichsminister (in German singular and plural; 'minister of the realm') was the title of members of the German Government during two historical periods: during the March Revolution of 1848/1849 in the German Reich of that period, and in the modern German federal state from 1919 to the end of the Nazi regime in 1945.

typographical dispute in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany

science school of linguistics

thumb|Old inscription for the Polish workers bank in Bochum, Bank Robotników e.G.m.b.H.