Invaded in June 1940, the Channel Islands were the only British territories to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two. Photo: Patriots on the island of Jersey tarred the houses of ...
The Manhattan Project was not just a quest to build a nuclear bomb; it was a quest to build one before Nazi Germany completed ...
As King Charles III is crowned, DW takes a look at the British royals' German roots. There are more ties than you might think. About 300 years ago, on August 1, 1714, England's Queen Anne died. As a ...
What does it mean to be German? This question has been an open one for more than 200 years, and in the last century, a provisional answer along false lines of “racial purity” came at the cost of ...
Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical ...
It may be hard to believe now, but for much of the late 19th century, Germans were the dominant immigrant group in New York City. They left their mark on neighborhoods like the Lower East Side, the ...
How did the German experience of World War One trench warfare differ from that of the Allies? Professor Martin Kitchen investigates. At one level the experience of the German soldier ('Landser') in ...
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