The German battle fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow
Richard Cavendish records how Germany sank its own navy in the aftermath of the First World War, on 21 June 1919.
Germany
Joseph Haydn and the German Nation
A subject and servant of Europe’s most cosmopolitan empire, the composer Joseph Haydn played an important role in the emergence of German cultural nationalism during the 18th and 19th centuries, writes Tim Blanning.
Victor Klemperer: Diarist of Nazi Germany
Robert Pearce recommends a first-hand account of the Third Reich.
France’s Prussian Nemesis
Mark Bryant on how French cartoonists of the 1870s responded to national humiliation at the hands of a beligerent Prussia.
The Spartacist Uprising in Berlin
A power struggle in postwar Germany erupted on January 5th, 1919.
Film in Germany: Red Army Reactions
A spate of recent films suggest that the scars of Germany’s history show little sign of healing. Markus Bauer reports.
A Good German? Von Stauffenberg and the July Plot
Roger Moorhouse takes issue with the secular sainthood bestowed on Claus von Stauffenberg.
Berlin Airlift Remembered
Patricia Cleveland-Peck visits Tempelhof which is about to close for ever as an airport.
Dr Goebbels: The Man Who Made Hitler?
Robert Pearce investigates the career of the Third Reich’s ‘evil genius’.
The Munich Conference
The agreement permitting Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland was signed on 29 September 1938.