Early in World War II, Nazi Germany used its navy to isolate Britain from resupply by sea. Germany capital ships, like the battleship Bismarck, were an important part of that strategy. But it was ...

One of Germany's most influential families has been embroiled in a scandal after police were called to their luxurious country home to break up an alleged fight. A house porter at the Bismarck country ...

The larger context of the battle—the U.S. Navy being forced to take on the German Navy—would have had serious repercussions for the Pacific theater. Germany was, after all, considered the primary ...

The German debate about how to treat Russia has been lively. Over the past year, the political mainstream has moved towards a much more critical position towards Russia. But Russia’s aggression ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Otto von Bismarck was born, Germans are still struggling with the legacy of their first leader: was he a war-mongering villain, or a benevolent hero who ...

Historical analogies are always dangerous and incomplete, but as long as we remember their limitations, sometimes analogies are useful in trying to understand current developments. An obvious question ...

Otto von Bismarck at his desk in 1886. Source: Wikimedia Commons After forging German nationhood through the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, Otto von Bismarck took office on March 21 as the first German ...

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LONDON — Count Gottfried von Bismarck, whose life of privileged excess as a descendant of Germany’s “Iron Chancellor” was clouded by two deaths at his decadent parties, has died at age 44. The ...