At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.
And the balance of power in Europe shifted, as Katja Hoyer recounts in her history of the nation, from its unification through the First World War. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German ...
‘THE history of our Colonies in the world war has shown that the German Colonial Empire was no proper “empire” at all, but just a number of possessions without geographical and political connection or ...