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Common term for the Duchy, the Kingdom and the Free State of Prussia (1525–1947)
Queen Victoria was almost certainly a carrier of haemophilia and—because several of her daughters married into the royal houses of Germany, Russia and Spain—her genetic legacy introduced haemophilia i...
Germany at the turn of the 20th century was an industrializing imperial power under Kaiser Wilhelm II, by 1914 an urbanized, militarized great power headed into total war, by 1939 a totalitarian state...
Anabaptists in 16th‑century Europe were pursued, imprisoned, and often executed—by drowning, burning, beheading and other means—by both Protestant “magisterial” authorities and Roman Catholic institut...
In the immediate months after became chancellor in January 1933, civil servants and judges largely accommodated and enabled by implementing new laws, purging targeted colleagues, and reframing loyalty...
Between roughly 1525 and the mid‑17th century Anabaptists in Europe faced sustained, often violent persecution that included imprisonment, execution and social exclusion; this repression prompted migr...
Most late‑19th‑century German emigrants came from a mix of western, central and increasingly eastern German lands — with large flows from regions such as the Rhineland/Hesse area earlier in the centur...