Ellis’ dream of wresting power from the emperor was but one small moment in his boundary-breaking life. Eulogized as a ...

The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis begins with Kaiser Wilhelm II’s flight to Doorn ... entirely clear which Wilhelm is being discussed: a family tree would also have been useful).

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 ...

Hitler’s Royal Welcome - The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration by Stephan Malinowski (Translated from ...

He had inherited his family’s diamond business and expanded ... And last year, the heirs of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II gave up on a nearly decade-long battle to regain hundreds of works ...

These samples were sent to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry in ... at a Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Berlin, his family was unaware that his brain had been removed.

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

Life was financially comfortable for the Hitler family but Alois was a domineering ... but implicated in the impending defeat. Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated days before Armistice.

Three of her relatives waged a war whose consequence saw two of them (Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and Czar ... years was overtaken by Queen Elizabeth II, who had reigned for 70 years when she ...

Another of the former Kaiser’s five surviving sons, August Wilhelm, was a prominent member of the paramilitary SA and spewed out a steady stream of antisemitism. The family turned out in force ...

Impressive buildings and beautiful grounds await in the Loire Valley, Dordogne, and Alsace at these 8 beautiful French castles you can visit on your next trip to France.