Germany entered World War I confident and united — and ended it starving, divided, and defeated. Follow the journey from the ...

KIEL, Germany - On June 28, 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II was preparing to indulge in a favorite pastime: racing his yacht Meteor at a regatta that is still held each year in this seafaring stronghold. When ...

After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...

Current events are frequently viewed through the prism of analogies. Words become shorthand for a particular type of situation. “Munich” equals the danger of appeasing bloodthirsty dictators, “Vietnam ...

With Russia massing troops near Ukraine’s eastern border Thursday, eyes were very much on Germany, the European heavyweight that both has the most potential leverage over Vladimir Putin and the ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

More than half a million had lain wounded or dead at Marne and Aisne. And as Christmas approached, thousands shivered in frozen trenches, yearning for home, expecting death. Amid carnage came calls ...

The Ukraine crisis reverberating across Europe recalls 1914 before the outbreak of World War I as Russia, the U.S. and European governments risk sleepwalking into conflict, said former German ...