Following the First World War three of the largest European Empires collapsed, with the German Empire being the last, after ...

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

“The Exception,” which opens tomorrow with a cast headed by Oscar winner Christopher Plummer as Germany’s exiled emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, rates as WWII spy thriller, romantic drama and character ...

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xxii, 244. Illus., notes, biblio., index. $27.99 paper. ISBN: 1107420776 Naturally, this book is not as detailed as ...

Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II decided to “renounce the throne,” under increasing pressure from most of Germany’s political parties. Germany’s troops were in retreat across Europe. Prince Maximilian, the ...

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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