Berlin- On 18 January, 1871 the King of Prussia, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Kaiser in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles Palace. The German Empire - a new state comprising myriad German-speaking ...

Show more In 1871, at the Palace of Mirrors in Versailles, the king of Prussia was crowned emperor of the newly unified German empire - a quite ... on the European map. "Everything was decided ...

Prussia's development as a ... by 1850, the German states remained independent the anti-nationalistic Austrian Empire was the dominant force in Central Europe Attempts at a political union ...

GERMAN historians and politicians are at loggerheads over plans to mark 2001 with an upbeat reappraisal of Prussia - a state officially dissolved 53 years ago by the Allies for being a ...