At the end of World War I, the last Bavarian monarch, King Ludwig III, had relinquished power, though without abdicating, in the face of t...

The story of Wurttemberg has its roots in the Dark Ages when the Hohenstaufen counts of Swabia were succeeded by the family of Conrad von ...

Some things come across the news that are so disgusting one is at a loss for words to describe them. Such a story came to my attention rec...

Some time ago it was brought to my attention that I had never set down my exact thoughts on Italian unification. It has certainly been cov...

When the last German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, went into exile in the Netherlands in 1918 he was a man rejected by his country, betrayed by his ...