Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and the author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.” LONDON — No moment in the story of the German ...

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Symbols of nobility Traces of nobility can still be found in people's names. The particles "von" (which means "descending from") or "zu" ("resident at") preceding a German surname indicate that the ...

The near-constant conflicts between the Swedish empire and its neighbors pushed the organization of local life in seized lands to the background, allowing Baltic German nobility in Livonia to ...

While the fourth Union Shoe Organisation was being suppressed in the Black Forest, Luther, in Wittenberg, gave the signal to a movement which was destined to draw all the estates into its torrent, and ...

Polling boxes were opened throughout Germany last week for a preliminary referendum to determine whether a subsequent referendum shall be held on the question of whether property belonging to the ...