During World War I, federal agents raided the offices of the German-language newspaper, the Cincinnati Volkblatt, looking for ...

BERLIN – Germany marks 20 years since reunification with pomp and ceremonies on Sunday — and a final payment for outstanding interest due on loans dating back to the years after World War I. Germany's ...

When the last surviving soldiers of the First World War – British Tommies and French poilus alike – died a few years ago, national newspapers in London and Paris, but also in Canberra, Wellington and ...

Strategic bombers surprisingly became part of warfare in the midst of World War I, with one of the first of its kind being ...

It was 1915, and the world was immersed in one of the most brutal conflicts in human history. As massive armies clashed in ...

Current events are frequently viewed through the prism of analogies. Words become shorthand for a particular type of situation. “Munich” equals the danger of appeasing bloodthirsty dictators, “Vietnam ...

BERLIN (AP) — Senior French and German officials have warned that the surge in nationalism fueling the crisis in Ukraine echoes the ideas that gripped Europe a century ago and led to World War I.

The wreck of a German ship from World War I has been uncovered after a recent storm came through Cornwall, England, and unearthed it. Known as the SV Carl, the ship was seen for approximately one hour ...

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Typically, when people think of submarine warfare, they probably recall the deadly U-boats of World War II. While that conflict saw widespread use of submarines, it was hardly the first to utilize the ...

A century-old wartime vessel has been identified off the coast of England. Wind farm developers were scanning the seabed off the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk when their sonar detected an unusually ...