and Munich Putsches Hyperinflation Events in the Ruhr 1923 Germany emerged from the First World War defeated and in political and economic turmoil. The economy was ruined and the Kaiser had fled ...

In West Germany - and in East Germany too, but for different reasons - the First World War did not exist in individual, family or national memory. People did not commemorate their fallen grandfathers ...

During the First World War, German imperialism unsuccessfully attempted to bring Europe under its control and expand eastwards. Under the Nazis, it made a second attempt. It needed Hitler to crush ...

A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor said on Thursday he would return his federal order of merit award to the German state in protest over a parliamentary vote in which support from the far-right was used ...

Alliance, war, betrayal, and then alliance all over again — this was the recurring theme of the 1930s and the 1940s. In these ...

Six graves at Glencree remember German soldiers who died in British prisoner-of-war camps in Ireland during the First World War. Meanwhile, one grave belongs to Major Hermann Görtz - a German ...

Two dozen soldiers departed from Berlin on Monday morning to set up the first permanent German army bases on foreign soil ...

World War II begins. Germany captures Paris, and France surrenders to the Nazis. Exacting revenge for his nation's defeat in the first World War, Hitler forces French officials to sign surrender ...

The swift and unexpected victory over France avenged Germany’s defeat and humiliation in the First World War. It propelled Hitler to a new level of popularity and trust among the German people. In ...

On 11 November 1918, Germany signed an Armistice to bring World War One to an end. On 19 January 1919, elections were held for the new government.