https://timey.org/tags/germany/ Recent content in Germany on Timey.org Hugo en-us Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timey.org/november-9-germanys-date-of-fate/ Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timey.org/november-9-germanys-date-of-fate/ The Germans have a word for it: Schicksalstag. Fate day. November 9 is theirs — not by design, not by any organizing intelligence, but through a series of violent coincidences that accumulated over seventy years until the date itself seemed to carry a kind of national gravity, pulling catastrophe and liberation alike into its orbit. It began, by most reckonings, in 1918. On November 9 of that year, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated the German throne, ending the Hohenzollern dynasty after 500 years.