For a long time this territory, sometimes called Alsace-Lorraine, was claimed by Germany. In 1871 it was annexed to the ... was (minus the ashtrays and carpet), with the Allies’ battle maps on the ...

When in his capital, by the way, he is within ten hours by express train of every point on his frontier with the exception of Alsace-Lorraine ... was put on the map. America is on the map to ...

Prussia then turned its attention towards the south of Germany, where it sought to expand its influence. Map of the North German Confederation (red), the Southern German States (orange) and ...

German envoys arrive at Versailles for peace treaty ceremony, 1919 World War I left Germany in a complicated ... century partitions of Poland and Alsace and Lorraine came with the defeat of ...

Looked at from this perspective, Bismarck's wars did not mark the successful unification of Germany but rather only the beginning ... were aggressively used to encourage non-Germans in Alsace-Lorraine ...

Amateur strategists pointed out that France’s possession of the escarpments of Alsace-Lorraine, jutting east toward Germany, made her invasion chances vastly superior to those of 1914.

In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...

In the second half of the 19th century, European powers competed with each other in an effort to expand their control over ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany won a state election for the first time Sunday in the country's east, and was set to finish at least a very close second to mainstream conservatives in a ...

Night - Mostly clear. Winds variable at 6 to 8 mph (9.7 to 12.9 kph). The overnight low will be 55 °F (12.8 °C). Sunny with a high of 81 °F (27.2 °C). Winds variable at 5 to 7 mph (8 to 11.3 ...