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The Imperial Castle is Nuremberg's landmark, a symbol for the power and importance of the Holy Roman Empire. Nuremberg (Nürnberg), first documented as a royal estate in 1050, was an important base for the domestic power politics during the...

An 1842 illustration showing the house in Kaliningrad, Russia (then Köningsberg, East Prussia) of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).

A 1934 photograph of the leading Nazi Reinhard Heydrich (1904-42) who headed the various Nazi criminal and secret police services across the Third Reich. (German Federal Archives)

Behistun Inscription, Column 1 (DB I 1-15) Sketch: Fr. Spiegel, Die altpers. Keilinschriften, Leipzig

From a rock relief found in 1862 CE at Birleyn, also called "The Tigris Tunnel", in modern-day Turkey. Tiglath Pileser I is identified in the cuneiform inscription. British Museum, London

The Norse god Baldr and his wife Nanna, illustration from page 271 of Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden by Wilhelm Wägner, Otto Spamer, Leipzig & Berlin, 1882. Baldr was a beloved son of Odin and Frigg. Despite being universally loved...

The Battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd, July 1942 to February 1943) was an attempt by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) to control the USSR's access to the Caucasus oil fields. Fierce street-fighting by the Soviet Red Army saw the city withstand...

The discovery of X-rays – a form of invisible radiation that can pass through objects, including human tissue – revolutionised science and medicine in the late 19th century. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), a German scientist, discovered...

The structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was discovered in 1953 by two molecular biologists, James Dewey Watson (1928-2025) and Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004). Watson and Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...

Women played a vital role in the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648) not only by supporting the major reformers as wives but also through their own literary and political influence. Their contributions were largely marginalized in the past...