November 1918 and the war to end all wars comes to its conclusion as the guns on the western front fall silent. For four ...

The family's many possessions will be managed by 3 members on a 9-member board called the Hohenzollern Art Property ...

Israeli conflict has taken an even more dangerous turn with the attack by the US on Iran’s nuclear sites. Is there a way forward from this, and does history offer us any help in understanding what can ...

In the early 20th century, Kaiser Wilhelm II’s German Empire devised ambitious plans to invade the United States, driven by the desire to challenge America's Monroe Doctrine - which asserted U.S.

As we celebrate the anniversary of benzene's isolation, we must remember that scientific centenaries carry additional agendas ...

WHEN Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany was forced to abdicate on November 9, 1918, two days before the Armistice, and board a train for the Netherlands, accompanying him was his faithful wife, the ...

Then, in October 1904, German General Lothar von Trotha, under the command of German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II, signed a notorious “extermination order” against the Herero.

The former German kaiser, Wilhelm II – who had led his country into World War I – lamented the violence and called it thuggish. It was a statement that played to his family’s benefit when ...

A deep shock must have seized those attending the party at Donaueschingen Castle on the night of November 14, 1908. There, in the middle of the ballroom, in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II, lay the ...

German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II championed the effort – despite the fact that it pushed the UK closer to France and Russia, and thus set up the alliances that lead to the First World War ...

They were kings of Prussia from 1701 and then ruled the German Empire from 1871 until Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate in 1918, going into exile after Germany's defeat in World War I.