Aggrandizer Hitler’s Germany does not to date possess Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany’s African and Asiatic colonies, but since these accounted for less than 5% of pre-War Germany’s export and ...

Various proposals were considered by the Committee, although it's uncertain which. Some reports point to a potential list of 6 countries being created from the territory of pre-war Germany.

Dr. Karl Helfferich, famed German financier who was recently killed in a railway accident (TIME, Apr. 28), placed the national wealth of pre-War Germany at $73,780,000,000.

Sidney Cotton, the inspiration for James Bond, developed aerial reconnaissance equipment to photograph German positions ...

After the war, the punishing terms of the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of all its colonies and transferred them to Allied control. What Are the Enduring Effects of German Colonization?

Before the war, Germany had shared borders in the east and southeast with Russia and Austria-Hungary, both large, powerful empires. Both had collapsed under the strains of war.

The Reichsbürger, a German conspiracy movement, disputes the legitimacy of the post-WWII Federal Republic, claiming the pre-war Reich persists and Germany remains occupied. Once dismissed as ...

These developments shatter the myth of post-war German history: that fascism was a historical anomaly, limited to the crisis before World War II.

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not since Napoleon did any one country control so much of the continent. Here ...