One hundred years ago today, on August 4, 1914, German troops began pouring over the border into Belgium, starting the first major battle of World War I ... Germany in the East. This map ...

Under Prussian leadership, Germany finally united into one country in 1871. About 13 years after unification ... s a rundown of Germany’s pre-World War I colonies. Colonized: 1884-1916 ...

Germany will finally pay off its ... will also mark the completion of the final chapter of World War I with the end of reparations payments 92 years after the country's defeat.

The huge debt forced upon Germany after its World War I defeat has often been pointed to as a contributing factor to the rise of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi party, and the eventual breakout of World ...

More than nine decades after the war, Germany - now a leading European Union state and the largest economy in Europe - has long cast off its post-WWI image of a defeated, beleaguered Weimar Republic.