Germany entered World War I confident and united — and ended it starving, divided, and defeated. Follow the journey from the ...

For centuries, Germany was a patchwork of kingdoms and states. Through war, revolution, and the rise of Prussia, that chaos ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s warning last month might lack the fateful portents of Sir Edward Grey’s lament on the eve ...

Even so, millions of people died in the war, and millions have died through the years, leaving very few veterans left today.

Many Europeans and Americans no longer view a global war as a remote prospect and believe World War III could happen in the ...