When studying European history, the various German monarchies come up a lot. They were figuratively and literally in the middle of everything; the protestant reformation, various wars and revolutions, ...
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The Neues Palais is a flamboyant folly, built by Frederick the Great to celebrate Prussia's victory in the Seven Years War, and this northern summer it's become the forum for a huge exhibition ...
On his way back from self-imposed exile in Paris, in 1844, Heinrich Heine caught a first glimpse of Prussian soldiers in Aachen, a city in the far west corner of Germany: With which they used to be ...