BERLIN (AP) — A descendant of the last German kaiser on Tuesday lost a court bid for the return of a castle overlooking the Rhine valley, part of which has been turned into a hotel. The largely ruined ...

A VIEW OF THE SPREE (305 pp.)—Alson J. Smith—John Day ($5.95). Americans popularly blamed World War I on the blustering German Kaiser and traced his evil aspirations back to Frederick the Great. They ...

Professor John Röhl, the historian, who has died aged 85, was born to a German father and English mother and endured a fractured early childhood in Germany and Hungary during the Second World War; ...