Charles Edward died of cancer in his flat in Coburg in 1954 at the age of 69. He was described as a "penniless criminal" in one report and is buried at the Waldfriedhof Cemetery near one of his former ...

The crusades to the Holy Land were a consuming obsession of Latin Christianity for four centuries and remain among the most famous episodes of the Middle Ages. Yet, in the perspective of history, they ...

Germany didn’t become a country naturally—it was built through conflict, after centuries of fragmented states trapped inside the Holy Roman Empire. When Napoleon dismantled the old system, German ...

However, prior to the rise of the United States as a great power, saviour of Europe and later as a superpower, the European ...

Observing the tussle for Greenland, it is hard not to recall Karl Marx’s aphorism that history repeats itself “the first time ...

Denmark and Prussia fought because of the Schleswig Holstein question, a messy dispute over who should control the duchies and whether they belonged with Denmark or the German Confederation. Ethnic ...

As an initiative redistributes a bumper surplus of spuds, here's a look at the Germans' great love affair with the potato.