A fine word picture of that great German patriot, Walter Rathenau, is presented in a new biography of the victim of Nationalistic oppression. The biography by Count Harry Kressler is no more brilliant ...

WALTHER RATHENAU: WEIMAR’S FALLEN STATESMAN By Shulamit Volkov Yale University Press, $25, 240 pages If, as historians have increasingly come to believe, the 20th century’s two world wars were in fact ...

The German Jewish community of the late 19th century found itself in a curious situation. On the one hand, German unification in 1871 weakened opposition to Jewish emancipation, and Jews demonstrated ...

Rathenau was the type of man who defies the average biographer, and none of the biographies of him that have been written so far have been accepted as in any way satisfactory. Count Kessler, who was ...

Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer has received the Walther Rathenau Prize for her life's work in foreign policy. "We cannot change what happened, but it must ...

During the first decades of the twentieth century, Walther Rathenau headed one of Germany’s largest corporations, penned thoughtful works of social philosophy, and served briefly as the Weimar ...

Murdering Walter Rathenau was easy. On the morning of June 24, 1922, a Saturday, the German foreign minister, who was Jewish, left his villa in the Berlin suburb of Grunewald and was being chauffeured ...

AMMAN — Her Majesty Queen Rania on Thursday received the Walther Rathenau Prize in recognition of her work as an outstanding advocate for peace and understanding between East and West. She was ...

Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas received the Walther Rathenau Award on Tuesday, which is named after a former foreign minister of Germany. The award was presented to Kallas by German Foreign ...

In the early 1980s, I first visited Israel as a young man. We also went to the mountains of Galilee. Standing on those summits on a clear day, not only sensing but also seeing the Mediterranean in the ...