Another flag came about during the North German Confederation era from 1867 to1871. Chancellor Otto von Bismarck is said to have ordered the creation of a new black, white and red tricolour as the ...
The flag of Europe still has twelve stars on it, and organizations with names like Eurogroup and European Commission and European Council still persist. But despite the unfortunate historical ...
Images of neo-Nazis waving the pre-1918 flag of the German Empire on the steps of Germany’s federal parliament building have rapidly spread around the world, producing justifiable outrage. The scenes ...
The first modern German empire was announced by Otto von Bismarck at Versailles in 1871; it died on the Western Front in 1918. The second German empire was forged in a swift march of annexations and ...