Whenever a new study of the Nazi regime appears, it is taken as a given that after Adolf Hitler seized power and became ...

Wilhelm II (Friedrich Viktor Albert) was both a first and fifth cousin to England’s George V and the Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Despite the barely concealed antagonism between the German emperor and ...

Alternative Name Prinz Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christoph von Preußen, Mr. Friedrich von Preussen, Count von Lingen, Friedrich Von Preussen, Friedrich Von Preußen, Prince Frederick of Prussia, Prinz ...

On 7 April, the "Second Gleichschaltung Law" put a Reich Governor in nearly complete control of each state, apart from Prussia. The governors answered to Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick.

Studio portrait of Prince Tassilo Wilhelm Humbert Leopold Friedrich Karl of Prussia, a German prince and competitive horse rider who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Prince Tassilo Wilhelm ...

via the belligerent imperialism of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the belligerent federalism of Bismarck, to the belligerent absolutism of Frederick the Great: the fons et origo of All That Went Wrong. For ...

The Iron Cross (in First, Second and Grand Cross Classes) was first introduced by Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia in 1813, as a special gallantry award for the duration of the war then being ...

Everyone in East Prussia, North Germany, is ordered to evacuate. Their only hope is to get on board the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that will bring them to the safer city of Kiel. Later that night ...