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...Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators by Jacob Heilbrunn (Liveright)The story of the American right’s strange, disturbing infatuation with foreign dictators and strongmen — from Kaiser...
...The original Stadtschloss, begun in the 15th century and hugely expanded by Frederick III (later King Frederick I of Prussia) and architect and sculptor Andreas Schlüter from 1699, was left in ruins after...
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...frederick.studemann@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Don’t discount Öxit / From John Doherty, Vienna, Austria...
...Martin Wolf condemns the dark side of nationalism (“The Faustian bargain of nationalism”, December 19), but Europe has seen plenty before: Louis XIV, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, the Kaiser and Hitler,...
...A military friend tells me that before the first world war the German expat community in Patagonia offered to raise an army of 100,000 and to capture the Falklands for the kaiser....
...Delius and pop bands such as Pulp and Kaiser Chiefs....
...Frederick Taylor is author of ‘Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany’ (Bloomsbury) The End: Hitler’s Germany, 1944-45, by Ian Kershaw, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 592 pages...
...There may have been the expedient name change to Windsor – prompting Kaiser (“Cousin Bill”) Wilhelm to quip that he looked forward to the next performance of the Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha – but few...
...Built for the future Prussian king Frederick William II towards the end of the 18th century, it was later the home of another crown prince; Wilhelm, son of Kaiser Wilhelm II....
...Bismarck was clever enough to keep its global pretensions modest, to avoid scaring the neighbours, but Kaiser Wilhelm II wasn’t....
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