November 1918 and the war to end all wars comes to its conclusion as the guns on the western front fall silent. For four years prior, the army of German Kaiser Wilhelm II had shot and shelled its way ...

Few cities in the world can claim the same level of fame, of culture and possessing the level of prestige in the art world as ...

Olaf Scholz mocked UK trains. FT analysis of 1.9bn data points shows they are more reliable than Germany’s network ...

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 ...

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.

Steve Bannon, no longer in Donald Trump's inner circle, but no less politically savvy for it, remarked recently,“If we aren't careful, it [Ukraine] w ...

The next day, Kaiser Wilhelm II arrived in Heligoland to officially annex the island into the German Empire, marking the end of nearly a century of British rule. Today, Heligoland is no longer a ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated days before Armistice. Like others, Hitler was enraged by what he saw as the betrayal of an undefeated German Army by Jews and socialists at home. He resolved to go ...

Donnie MacRae was captured during the Battle of St Valery in France in 1940 (Representational) A soldier, who died as a German prisoner ... were sent to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry ...

Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

Even mad monks are occasionally right. It was Rasputin who warned Nicholas II not to declare war on his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany, or else he would lose his crowned head. Before the war ...