Well, we don't have a big colonial history and never really talked about it, although there would be this important part with the genocide on the Herero and Nama in "German Southwest-Africa", but whatever.
We talked about the Egypts, Greeks and Romans mainly, especially the latter one, before going into a bit more detail, when it comes to the Middle Ages and Rennessaince.
BUT the next big subject after the Romans was in fact the reformation by Luther, but not the Thirty Years' War, and the Absolutism in France, before the French Revolution.
We only talked barely about the American and Industrial Revolution in Geography and English class.
The formation of Germany, the "Kaiserreich", colonisation and WW1 we "did in high speed" and then, a big subject came up, that we talked about in sooooooo many grades at school:
Hitler and the Holocaust. WW2 wasn't interesting, in the minds of the curriculum-writers, but especially the rise of Hitler, due to various reasons, the war preparations (where we, surprisingly also talked about historians, that gave e.g. GB a little share of blame on the start of WW2) and the Holocaust.
This was followed by the time until 1949 (1989 in the advanced course) and that was it, I guess.