Bismarck was fired by Wilhelm ii and the latter’s ambitious foreign policy got Germany into conflict with other European powers. Germany was no longer ‘saturiert’, as Bismarck called it years before.

Many scholars have stressed the favor shown to the bastard sons of noblemen, particularly in the "golden age of noble bastards" in the fifteenth century. This article examines the position of noble ...

(CN) — Though the U.K. allowed it, Europe's highest court said Germany need not recognize titles meaning "count" and "baron" that one citizen added to his name. Peter Mark Emanuel Graf von ...

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While the fourth Union Shoe Organisation was being suppressed in the Black Forest, Luther, in Wittenberg, gave the signal to a movement which was destined to draw all the estates into its torrent, and ...

Born into the rubble and deprivation of postwar Germany, Horst Koch wanted out of his small-town cocoon, and at age 21 found his way to a poker table, where he learned to empty the pockets of less ...

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