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; ...
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.
The heirs of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s legendary “Iron Chancellor”, are embroiled in a bitter courtroom battle over a fortune as grand as their family name. Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, the so-called ...
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Nationalism and German unification, how Bismarck’s new empire and Austria-Hungary’s cracks set up 1914
Romanticism and nationalism reshape Europe, Germany unifies in 1871, and Austria-Hungary becomes a fragile patchwork of competing identities that points straight to Sarajevo. At the same time, ...
3 Key Points: The Bismarck, Germany’s pride and the largest battleship built in Europe, was launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1940, only to meet a tragic end within eight months of service. Known ...
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