After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...

In the 19th century, there was one European Statesman that towered above all others, contrary to the expectation of both his ...

ON JUNE 16, 1871, the German Kaiser, preceded by Bismarck, Roon, and Moltke, entered the city of Berlin on horseback in triumph at the head of forty thousand troops newly returned from France. George ...

A sadness, like the last reverberations of an iron bell, stole into German hearts last week as the Countess Maria Rantzau. only daughter of the great Prince Bismarck, died at Kiel, in her 77th year.

Professor John Röhl, the historian, who has died aged 85, was born to a German father and English mother and endured a fractured early childhood in Germany and Hungary during the Second World War; ...

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