History is a funny thing, but we are living in frightening historic times. There are several adages about history, such as ...

Theodor Wolff, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Berliner Tageblatt, announced that “the greatest of all revolutions” had ...

Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a ...

Handel’s opera “Siroe, re di Persia” premieres in London. 1749: Henry Fieldings’ novel “Tom Jones” published. 1784: John ...

In the name of national security, which hadn’t actually been threatened, the German people surrendered their rights.

Welcome to This Day in History! Today, we take a look back at significant events that occurred on February 27th throughout ...

On the night of Feb. 27, 1933, an arsonist attacked the Reichstag, Germany’s historic parliamentary building. It was a ...

India, on February 27, 2002, watched the news of the Godhra train burning in Gujarat with horror and disbelief. The incident ...

Hitler was furious when he learned that Strasser had met with Schleicher to explore potential cooperation. He accused ...

Starting from 1871, Germany was initially an imperial state, or German Reich ... However, when President Paul von Hindenburg died in August 1934, the position was not filled again.