Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August 1914, then on France and Belgium on 3 August. On 4 August 1914 the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. Adolf Hitler attended a demonstration in support of mobilization in Munich on 2 August. An enthusiastic crowd demonstrated in favor of the outbreak of war in Germany. It was on this day that Hitler volunteered for the German army. He was given the task of acting as a courier between the officers at the command posts. He was wounded in October 1916 and gassed with mustard gas in October 1918. In Adolf Hitler's Horoscope:On August 2, 1914...

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On Sunday 22 September 2013, Angela Merkel won her third election and re-established herself as Federal Chancellor of Germany, i.e. as head of government of the Federal Republic of Germany.In the September 2005 elections, her party, the CDU-CSU (Christian Democratic Union combined with the Christian Social Union of Bavaria) had only won four more seats than the SPD (Social Democratic Party). In 2005, Angela Merkel became Germany's first female chancellor thanks to the grand coalition, a government agreement between the two major German political movements CDU-CSU and SPD. During her first te...

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Wilhelm II was the German emperor who ruled Germany during the First World War (emperor from June 15, 1888 to November 9, 1918). He was perceived as bellicose because he encouraged militarism and ruled in an authoritarian manner. He developed a navy and did not oppose to the nationalist movements. During his reign the German industry flourished. He liked military parades but had a conciliatory attitude towards France in several cases, especially in Morocco. However, he could not escape the influence of his highly militarized elites. Following the alliances with Austria-Hungary and the murder o...

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