MANY football fans are only just learning why Germany play in white. The country's flag is red, black and yellow, but their famous strip has little resemblance to those national colours. 3 ...

It was not until 1871 that his brother, William I of Prussia, accepted it, persuaded by Bismarck, who had revived the offer following the completion of German unification. The empire under his rule ...

Prussia’s, and then Germany’s, longstanding rivalry with France rankled French Americans in St. Louis, particularly after the former’s victory against the latter in the 1870-1 Franco-Prussian ...