Historians say the knowledge, unusual for Jewish communities outside Germany and Austria, made the 20,000 Jews of Alsace and nearby Lorraine better prepared to face the forthcoming Nazi occupation.

Here are some of them: TERRITORIAL Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France. Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria. Lands in eastern Germany including the farmlands of Posen and the Polish ...

In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...