In the year 9, the Germans,....then...

And now, something totally different:

the 2000 year anniversary

of what many years later would become the country of Germany...we would refer to the date today as the

year 0009

...that is 9 years after the birth of Christ. Die Schlacht im Teuteburger Wald.

It was in the area, near the former east German border and close to Wolfsburg, the city famous for being the birthplace of the Volkswagen that history was made.

Varus, commander of 3 legions of roman soldiers (a total of about 20,000 men),somehow or other encountered incredible resistance and in fact lost his legions. I learned in school as a kid that Hermann der Cerusker managed to assemble enough men trained in bows and arrows to totally defeat the Romans.

This took place at a time when Rom and it's Cesar's were masters of Europe and the middle east. They had enslaved most of central Europe( Gallia,Britain,Central Europe).. as well as Egypt, Syria, Babylon and were about to move east as well..

Hermann stopped all that...;( actually, his name was Arminius, no idea where Hermann came from...).

after the loss of the roman troupes Rom was no longer interested in these regions, they called it the land of the barbarians.This area was never part of ancient Rom and it only became component of the so called Holy Roman Empire of German Nations hundreds of years later..which oddly enough did not include Rom.