Outstanding historians, publicists and cultural scientists narrate the influences from Germany on the world and also how the world affected Germany. Thus, from many perspectives, a surprisingly different picture of our history emerges, a completely new national world history. Every national history is a "container" with historical content. But how did these contents actually get into the container? If one consistently pursues this question, it becomes clear that every country`s history consists of an infinite number of networks forming a dense historical network. This work takes a look at the most important junctions in the history of Germany - on the one hand, its global impact, on the other hand, at influences coming from outside. In an astonishing panorama we meet the Romans in Germania, Charlemagne and the Caliph's court in Baghdad, the first university in Prague and the black art of Johannes Gutenberg, we travel with Sybille Merian to Surinam, follow the worldwide traces of Moses Mendelssohn, Kant or even Max Weber. The Code Civil as a legal import, communism as an export of ideas, the strange career of a meatball named Hamburger, Neuschwanstein and the Blaue Reiter, all these are also topics as well as the destructiveness of the world wars and the Cold War period, the magic of the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Kurt Masur, the success of German directors in Hollywood and the breakdown odyssey of Berlin Airport which amuses the world.