The players involved were the territories in Germany, the Holy Roman Empire, the provinces of the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden, as well as France and Spain. ... The Netherlands and Switzerland were beneficiaries of the war and with their new independence were able to prosper on their own. ... Switzerland, which had previously been recognized as a part of the Holy Roman Empire, gained its freedom but was not as successful as other nations, being landlocked and therefore having limited access to global trade. ...

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Briggs had identified the heartland of the witch craze to be a hundred miles or so either side of the Rhine, from Luxembourg and north west Germany down to Savoy and the Swiss Confederation. ... In the late 1580's witch hunting had become especially bad in Switzerland and the Netherlands. ...

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The principal assets of Germany include natural resources which include are: iron ore, coal, potash, timber, lignite, uranium, copper, natural gas, salt, nickel, and arable land. Germany's absolute advantages are the high percentage of arable land, which is 33%. Germany's comparative advantages are ...

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This combination of awareness and honesty would render Remarque both praised by many for his literary genius and despised by the ultra-Nationalist Nazi regime - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. ...

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In this Committee, which was the pioneer of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC), 16 European states were represented: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (Kissinger, T L). ...

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Conventional long form: Federal Republic of Germany conventional short form: Germany local short form: Deutschland former: German Empire, German Republic, German Reich local long form: Bundesrepublik Deutschland Germany, the home of Oktoberfest, Mercedes Benz, and Dark Chocolate, is a 357,021 square kilometer nation with strategic location on the Northern European Plain and along the entrance to the Baltic Sea bordering: Austria, Belgium, The Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Poland, and Switzerland. ...

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