Before he became one of Nazi Germany’s most infamous figures Hermann Göring was a decorated WWI fighter pilot who rose ...

It's wrong to say Germans ignore WWI. While they may not remember the details of their own family history, the larger geopolitical history is burned into their collective memories, and so is the guilt ...

When the last surviving soldiers of the First World War – British Tommies and French poilus alike – died a few years ago, national newspapers in London and Paris, but also in Canberra, Wellington and ...

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

Germany will finally pay off the last of its debts from World War I this Sunday, on the 20th anniversary of German reunification. Germany's federal office for central services and unresolved property ...

WASHINGTON — The young German soldier has his rifle slung over his shoulder, a half-eaten sandwich in his left hand and a drinking cup in his right. As he steps to the refreshment window, a woman in a ...

Spanish-German actor Daniel Bruhl will act in and produce a new adaptation of the classic World War I novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front." (Willy Sanjuan/AP) Just one year after “All Quiet on the ...

A German-dominated Europe, but no World War II, no Holocaust, and very likely no Communism — not a bad trade-off for a German victory in WWI. In the early 20th century, the Allied powers, especially ...

Typically, when people think of submarine warfare, they probably recall the deadly U-boats of World War II. While that conflict saw widespread use of submarines, it was hardly the first to utilize the ...

The wreck of a German ship from World War I has been uncovered after a recent storm came through Cornwall, England, and unearthed it. Known as the SV Carl, the ship was seen for approximately one hour ...

Current events are frequently viewed through the prism of analogies. Words become shorthand for a particular type of situation. “Munich” equals the danger of appeasing bloodthirsty dictators, “Vietnam ...