It is not the parliament that must grant it. With this terse statement, Frederick William IV of Prussia rejected the title of Kaiser der Deutschen (Emperor of the Germans) offered to him by the ...

On Blood & Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer. It’s easy for modern commentators to regard the German Empire as no more than a violent chapter in European history.

That the German Empire had speculated on the possibility of invading the United States before the twentieth century was well known even before the Second World War, since as early as 1940 a German ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Ten battleships, five battlecruisers, four cruisers, and thirty-two destroyers were successfully scuttled. From the German point of view, the operation was an enormous ...

On The German Empire, 1871–1918, by Roger Chickering. Although he is too modest to claim the honor for himself, Roger Chickering is in many ways the dean of American scholars of modern German history.

A hundred years ago this month, a Pacific empire began to crumble. In the final quarter of the 19th century, the German Empire began to acquire Pacific territories. Chief among the German possessions ...

The flag of Europe still has twelve stars on it, and organizations with names like Eurogroup and European Commission and European Council still persist. But despite the unfortunate historical ...

On March 21, 1871, the German parliament convened in the Reichstag for the first time, exactly 150 years ago. It was an important step to democracy, though the chamber did not hold the German Empire's ...

The German Empire, in preparation since 1848 and founded in 1871, experienced an unprecedented heyday and – although not only through fault of its own – took the wrong path. Richard von Weizsäcker, ...