The final collapse of East Prussia ended with the slow destruction of Königsberg once a symbol of Prussian power and German history. This episode examines the siege bombardment and surrender that ...

IT may safely be assumed that the early history of Prussia is known to the great majority of English readers only from the first four books of Carlyle’s Frederic the Great. So powerful was the ...

9 B.C.: Pagan Germanic tribes check advancing Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, ending northward spread of Roman civilization, bounding the Roman Empire by the Danube and Rhine. c.700 A.D.

When studying European history, the various German monarchies come up a lot. They were figuratively and literally in the ...

Jan. 18 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. His reign ended upon his death March 9, 1888, and he was succeeded by his son, Frederick III ...

For a week Berlin radio jittered with its strongest superlatives. “One of the war’s bloodiest struggles,” “mammoth offensive,” “grand assault,” “unheard-of numerical superiority,” “monstrous force.” ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German village was on Saturday unveiling a monument to the Scottish-born Prussian Field Marshall James Keith, in a rare act of remembrance in a country that has spend decades ...