[captain_dave]

Germany, as a nation, didn’t exist until after 1871.

[Mariner]

“Germany, as a nation, didn’t exist until after 1871.”

As a people/culture they’ve existed since the time of the Frankish Empire circa 800 CE, through to the Holy Roman Empire (the original Reich), Austro-Hungarian Empire, Prussia, through to the founding of “Germany” and the German Empire (second Reich) in the 19th Century.