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 ...

Deceased French president Francois Mitterrand in 1989 gave his approval to German unification on condition ... less than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 9 November 1989.

He reorganised the ‘German’ lands to 39 larger states. He also established the Confederation of the Rhine, which brought further unification to the most influential German states. The German ...