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class="infobox-title">Belgian–German relations</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Germany_Belgium_Locator.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Map indicating locations of Germany and Belgium"><img alt="Map indicating locations of Germany and Belgium" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Germany_Belgium_Locator.png/250px-Germany_Belgium_Locator.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Germany_Belgium_Locator.png/375px-Germany_Belgium_Locator.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Germany_Belgium_Locator.png/500px-Germany_Belgium_Locator.png 2x" data-file-width="1236" data-file-height="1245" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:lightgrey"></th></tr><tr style="height:0.6em"> <td style="background:#339933;"></td> <td 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width="45" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/68px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/90px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a></th> </tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Belgium-Germany relations</b> are the <a href="/wiki/Bilateral_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Bilateral relations">bilateral relations</a> between <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> and <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>. Both of these are neighbouring countries and share a common 204 kilometer long landborder.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both nations are members of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Europe" title="Council of Europe">Council of Europe</a>, <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Eurozone" title="Eurozone">Eurozone</a>. </p><p>Belgium has an embassy in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a consul in <a href="/wiki/Cologne" title="Cologne">Cologne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_am_Main" class="mw-redirect" title="Frankfurt am Main">Frankfurt am Main</a>, <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aachen" title="Aachen">Aachen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stuttgart" title="Stuttgart">Stuttgart</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bremen" title="Bremen">Bremen</a>, while Germany has an embassy in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>. </p><p>Some German cities (like Hanau and Cologne) are or were traditional centres of Belgian Protestant Diaspora.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> German is besides Dutch and French also the third official language in Belgium. The <a href="/wiki/German-speaking_Community_of_Belgium" title="German-speaking Community of Belgium">German-speaking Community of Belgium</a> is the smallest of the three political communities in Belgium. 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Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The biggest part of modern territory of Belgium, along with the bulk of modern Germany, and other territories, had been part of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a> for centuries until the end of the 18th century. The first king of Belgium after Belgium gained its independence in 1830 was <a href="/wiki/Leopold_I_of_Belgium" title="Leopold I of Belgium">Leopold I</a>, who hailed from the aristocratic family of <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha" title="Saxe-Coburg and Gotha">Saxe-Coburg and Gotha</a>. To date, all Belgian kings stem from his lineage. </p><p>Belgium was invaded and occupied by Germany in the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First</a> and <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World Wars</a>, with Belgian civilians being victims of <a href="/wiki/German_war_crimes" title="German war crimes">German war crimes</a> (see: <i><a href="/wiki/Rape_of_Belgium" title="Rape of Belgium">Rape of Belgium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vinkt_massacre" title="Vinkt massacre">Vinkt massacre</a></i>). The territory currently comprising the <a href="/wiki/German-speaking_Belgium" class="mw-redirect" title="German-speaking Belgium">German-speaking community in Belgium</a> was taken from Germany following World War I, as stipulated the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles" title="Treaty of Versailles">Treaty of Versailles</a> as compensation for the Allied countries. In 1914, German Chancellor <a href="/wiki/Theobald_von_Bethmann_Hollweg" title="Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg">Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg</a> formed a plan to establish a Central European Economic Union, comprising a number of European countries, including Germany and Belgium, in which, as he secretly stressed, there was to be <i>a semblance of equality among the member states,</i> but in fact it was to be under German leadership to <i>cement Germany's economic hegemony over Central Europe</i> (see also: <i><a href="/wiki/Mitteleuropa" title="Mitteleuropa">Mitteleuropa</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plan failed amid Germany's defeat in the war. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Diaspora">Diaspora</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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