One of the many things mentioned after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was that Al Qaeda had chosen that date as a ...

This brutal event eliminated rivals and secured the loyalty of the military, setting the stage for Hitler’s totalitarian regime and the horrors that would follow in the years ahead ... crimes against ...

The Thirty Years War is one of the bloodiest conflicts in all of human history. Depending on which historian you're consulting, the death toll ranges from 4.5 to 8 million.

Following the war, regions that would become the modern German states of Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Pommerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia ...

Gardelegen is itself a historic town located in Saxony-Anhalt in northern Germany. ... The town experienced many of the tragedies of German history, including trouble during the Thirty Years War and a ...

It was of course the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, at the end of the original Thirty Years’ war (1618-48) that enshrined the inviolate rights of all states, regardless of size.

Restoration workers at St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, Germany have uncovered a surprising find 400 years in the making. Inside the leg of a statue, they found four bags stuffed with coins dating back ...

The hoard was hidden during the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648), a series of wars that started with the Holy Roman emperor imposing religious control over his realm and later involving political ...

Coin hoards often have a tragic backstory, whether they were hidden because of pirates or tucked away during a war. And the coins found in Pomiechówek are likely no exception. Experts suspect that the ...

Another possibility is that the hoard belonged to a soldier fighting in the Thirty Years’ War raging from 1618 to 1648, and the soldier could have buried it for safe-keeping.

Thirty-five years after reunification, there is no clear path back to convergence for the former East German states. On the contrary, we are currently experiencing political and policy paralysis.