The Iron Cross, one of the most widely recognized military decorations, originated during the Napoleonic Wars in 1813 when ...

We can warmly commend this pamphlet to our readers as it treats the most urgent issues of the day in Germany with great incisiveness, impartiality and expert knowledge. The old organisation of the ...

On his way back from self-imposed exile in Paris, in 1844, Heinrich Heine caught a first glimpse of Prussian soldiers in Aachen, a city in the far west corner of Germany: With which they used to be ...

In our first manifesto of the 23rd of July, we said: "The death-knell of the Second Empire has already sounded at Paris. It will end, as it began, by a parody. But let us not forget that it is the ...