Here’s What You Need to Know: It remains the greatest destruction of naval power in a single day in modern military history. A little over one hundred years ago, the German High Seas Fleet committed ...

China Daily has been making much of Harvard University Prof. Joseph Nye’s comments about China’s rise and American decline. In a recent article titled ‘Don’t Magnify China’s Power,’ Ariel Tung reports ...

Tirpitz’ “risk-fleet theory” was a debacle for Imperial Germany. But it could work for China—now playing the role of the United States during its turn-of-the-century rise to hemispheric eminence.

On Blood & Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer. It’s easy for modern commentators to regard the German Empire as no more than a violent chapter in European history.

Grand Admiral Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz, creator of the Imperial German Navy, went to a sanitarium in the pine forest back of Munich five weeks ago, tried to shake off an attack of bronchitis.

Imperial Germany had its fair share of goose-stepping Prussian officers, but it was also the country where Albert Einstein and Max Planck revolutionized physics.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Imperial German Air Force silver ...