From the Early Germans to the Reformation -- The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 -- The Early Germans -- The Battle of Adrianople, 378 -- The Salic Law, c. 500 -- The Character and Deeds of ...

The German Empire, in preparation since 1848 and founded in 1871, experienced an unprecedented heyday and – although not only through fault of its own – took the wrong path. Richard von Weizsäcker, ...

This article is adapted from the author's remarks at the tenth annual dinner of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, at which he was honored for distinguished scholarship in German history and for ...