The peace settlement created some two thousand separate Germanies, of which three hundred were sovereign states, each with its own court, administration, flag, army ... To them Germany, especially the ...

Marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in Berlin, this article reflects on the sacrifices made and the enduring legacy of a pivotal moment in World War II.

Stung by what she called a "major blow to the world economy," Ursula von der Leyen held a 5am press conference in Brussels to state the EU would retaliate, her dawn o'clock start yet another marker of ...

In Germany, the centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz ... raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons." So often we draw parallels between current-day presidents ...

For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up ... He persuaded Russia, Prussia and Austria to join in. But the British cabinet was buoyed by the fact that the Royal Navy still ...

Your family – your dynastic family – the Hohenzollerns, has reigned in Brandenburg-Prussia from 1415 to 1918 and in imperial Germany from 1871 to 1918. But Kaiser Wilhelm II leads the country into the ...

Against the British, both Washington and Lafayette (left and right, at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78) had to learn how to lead citizen-soldiers rather than mercenaries, motivating their ...

While a number of central and northern German states eventually adopted constitutions, Prussia and Austria rejected ... This first major mass political demonstration in Germany, at which many ...

That flag featured horizontal and vertical black bands intersected by the Prussian eagle. It also included an iron ... Hitler was obsessed with race long before becoming Chancellor of Germany. His ...