Germany

C.V. Wedgwood on the the links between the Stuart monarchy and its German relatives preceding, and throughout, the Civil War period. 

The redemption sought by the assassin of Weimar Germany’s foreign minister.

Peering through the pines, a German cycle company of the First World War is captured on camera. Roger Hudson explains.

The Dambusters Raid is one of the best known operations of the Second World War. But, as James Holland explains, the development of the ‘bouncing bomb’ took place against a background of bitter rivalry between the armed services.

Exile to the Netherlands following the First World War chastened Kaiser Wilhelm II, but Robin Bruce Lockhart cannot believe that the former ruler of imperial Germany was ever either the mountebank, or the monster, which his biographers have tried to make him.

Elizabeth Wiskemann finds that the German students’ societies have played an unusual and a characteristic part in the history of modern Germany, and yet one which their mysterious rites and code of honour have obscured, even among their compatriots.

Felix W. Crosse assesses the life and legacy of Duke Charles of Brunswick.

Erich Eyck compares the legend and the reality of Prussia's infamous 18th century ruler, Frederick William I.

The ruthless archbishop died on 15 May 913.

The indiscriminate use of ‘Nazi’ to describe anything to do with German institutions and policies during Hitler’s dictatorship creates a false historical understanding, says Richard Overy.