WHILE laying foundations for a better civic system, Stein was obliged to devote immediate and intense thought to the military system. The old Prussian army organization had been, under Frederick the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans are starting to rethink their negative views about Prussia, the state which ruled much of northern Germany for centuries and which has been viewed for decades through the ...

For a week Berlin radio jittered with its strongest superlatives. “One of the war’s bloodiest struggles,” “mammoth offensive,” “grand assault,” “unheard-of numerical superiority,” “monstrous force.” ...

MANY events in history show the inherent weakness of absolutism, but none in modern times more vividly than the eclipse of Prussia and the destruction of the old German Empire by Napoleon. Frederick ...