Germany

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The Germany of the past had a low attendance at church. The

German’s had placed a tax on all churches. The tax was collected by the

state. Catholicism was the dominant religion for most of the 14th to 19th

centuries. The Catholics stayed mostly to the south, as the Protestants and

Lutherans lived in the north. During the era of World War II, the small

population of German Jews was killed by the Nazis. More than 500,000

Jews were killed during this time. After the war, only 40,000 Jews remained

in Germany. Today’s population of over 82 million Germans, is divided into

several different religions. Still the dominant religion is Catholicism.

The economy was developed in 1949 with Democratic Republic

houses. Since the rise in the economy house hold income, cars, and hospitals

increased. The eastern sides of Germany had the technological advances,

and the western parts were more towards the manual labor. Of course

Germany’s greatest low was during the end of World War II. Germany’s

rebuild toward economic growth began in the late 50’s. As the economy

have changed from it’s communist ways, it continues to grow today. The

workers of Germany’s society out rank the homeless and those on welfare....