On this day, February 11, 2013 the Vatican confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy as a result of his advanced age.
If he had not resigned on that day he would now be an elderly pope.
Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger was born on April 16, 1927 in the Bavarian town of Marktl in the Germany of the Weimar Republic.
The official name of the State was Deutsches Reich or German Kingdom. It was also called Deutsche Republik or German Republic. Before that it was the German Empire. From 1933 to 1943 it was known as the German Reich and then from 1943 to 1945 the Greater German Reich.
When post-war Germany was divided, one Germany was called The Federal Republic of Germany and the other Germany was The German Democratic Republic.
Today the official name of the united country is The Federal Republic of Germany or shortened to Germany.
Words carry great meaning and so much history.
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