ocr: GERMANY,country, central Europe, nhabited chiefly by German-speaking peoples. For most of the more than 1000 years of German history, sermany was - a geographical term for an area occupied by many states. A unified nation Fall of the Beriin Wall, 1990 for only 74 years (1871-1945),it was divided after World War II into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), or West Jermany, and the Jerman Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany. On Oct. 3, 1990, Germany was once again united, as the land that had been East Germany became part of the FRG.
