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On July 20, 1944, a cadre of German military officers launched an assassination plot against Adolph Hitler. The assassination attempt failed because of a table top.

The 1914 battle of Tannenberg which was the most stunning German victory of World War One over the Imperial Russian Army

Rosenthal and Reisenauer were born a year apart and both had successful careers in the concert world. Each studied with the great Franz Liszt and toured extensively.

Two celebrated pianists of the nineteenth century were Diemer and Barth. They deserve to be remembered by today's music lovers.

Expecting a second Munich Pact, Hitler rejected anti-war recommendations from generals and politicians while underestimating British and French resolve.

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, best known for setting the bomb that nearly killed Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, is considered one of Germany's 20th-century heroes.

A brief biography and works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, a German romantic author, popularized by Offenbach as the subject in his opera, "The Tales of Hoffmann."

Much of his story has become legendary in a Russia searching for heroes in a war with few of them.

The German people were fragmented in the late-18th and early 19th-centuries. This state of separation became easy pickings for Napoleon and the French army.

Colonel Count Klaus Schenck von Stauffenberg was selected as the man most likely to succeed in killing Hitler.

A few wavy-haired Rex Cats are well known and have been developed as new breeds. But there are actually many records of different curly-coated mutants.

The Congress of Vienna was a peace conference held after the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th Century. It redrew the boundaries of Germany and Prussia.

The smallest and shortest-lived of the White Armies; it came closest to capturing the old capital of St Petersburg in a brief campaign in 1919.

Evidence suggests that Nazi Germany had many willing executioners, perhaps as many as 200,000, in the mass extermination of European Jews. This charge has drawn anger.

Unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany led to Allied occupation as everyday Germans attempted to cope with the utter destruction of cities and the lack of food and hope.