In 1846 he escaped in disguise and fled once again to London, where he remained until France’s 1848 revolution ... That it ...

A meteorite strikes a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. 1512: Medici’s discharge Niccolo Machiavelli ...

Political conditions in the Holy Roman Empire - known in Germany as the ‘Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation’ - were still entirely ... constitutions for their sovereign territories until 1848.

After he accepted the office of Regent of Germany on 5 July 1848 (see below), John maintained that he could ... he openly regretted the failure of German unification. Archduke John died in 1859 in ...

Their version of “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel” could be disturbing. But turning Germany into a unified nation, they believed, ...

This turned him against the regime he had supported, and against the cultural doctrine of obedience instilled first in Prussians, then the German empire to which Prussia gave birth. As for the ...

Photos, installations and films illustrate parliament’s turbulent history: the first National Assembly in 1848, development during the German Empire, the destruction of democratic systems by the Nazis ...

Kanaris gained fame during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829). Unlike most other prominent figures of the War, he had never been initiated into the Filiki Eteria (Society of Friends), which ...

(This isn’t a re-do of the early 1930s German Communist Party’s terrible ... atop the world’s leading criminal Empire: only an actual socialist revolution to create a world beyond capitalist ...

Get your Indiana Jones-style fedora ready for a modern-day armchair expedition of places rediscovered after centuries—and ...

‘By the 1990s, German responsibility for the Holocaust had become a civil religion that defined national identity.’ On a Berlin street corner, just off Friedrichstrasse, there is a faded bronze plaque ...