
	Where results make sense

Topic: Prince Oskar of Prussia

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From the late 18th century the expanded Prussia dominated North Germany politically, economically and in terms of population size, and was the core of the unified German Empire formed in 1871.
		Prussia greatly expanded its territories to the east during the Partitions of Poland between 1772 and 1795.
		Prussia's democratic constitution was suspended in 1932 as a result of a coup by Germany's conservative Chancellor Franz von Papen, marking the effective end of German democracy.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Prussia (2225 words)

	Wilhelm_II_of_Germany
		Wilhelm also took a certain interest in the science and technology of the age, but though he liked to pose, in conversation, as a man of the world, he remained convinced that he belonged to a distinct order of mankind, designated for monarchy by the grace of God.
		The unreality of this claim showed up when, for the sake of political unity, Wilhelm's abdication both as Emperor of the German Empire and King of Prussia was abruptly announced by Chancellor Prince Max of Baden on November 9, 1918.
		He invited the boy and his mother, Hermine, daughter of Prince Henry XXII of Reuss and a descendant of William the Conqueror, to Doorn.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wilhelm_ii_of_germany.html (2880 words)

	Weimar Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On October 28, 1918, the 1871 constitution was finally amended to make the Reich a parliamentary democracy, which the government had refused for half a century: the Chancellor was henceforth responsible to Parliament, the Reichstag, and no longer to the Kaiser.
		On November 9, 1918, the Republic was proclaimed by Philipp Scheidemann at the Reichstag building in Berlin and two hours later a socialist republic was proclaimed around the corner at the Berlin Castle by Karl Liebknecht.
		On January 22, Hitler's efforts to persuade Oskar von Hindenburg (the President's son) included threats to bring criminal charges over estate taxation irregularities at the President's Neudeck estate (although 5000 extra acres were soon alloted to Hindenburg's property).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weimar_Republic (7511 words)

	Encyclopedia article on World War I [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Germany defeated Russia in a series of battles collectively known as the (second) Battle of Tannenberg, but this diversion allowed French and British forces to finally halt the German advance on Paris at the First Battle of the Marne (September 1914) as the Central Powers were forced into fighting a war on two fronts.
		Although Russia's initial advance into Galicia was largely successful, they were driven back from East Prussia by the victories of the German generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes in August and September 1914.
		The innovative general, Oskar von Hutier, introduced new tactics on the western front, intended to seize the trenches and destroy the enemy right within them.
	encyclozine.com /World_War_I (7767 words)

	Germany
		By the Treaty of Verdun (843), Charlemagne's lands east of the Rhine were ceded to the German Prince Louis.
		After the defeat of Napoléon at Waterloo (1815), the struggle between Austria and Prussia for supremacy in Germany continued, reaching its climax in the defeat of Austria in the Seven Weeks' War (1866) and the formation of the Prussian-dominated North German Confederation (1867).
		On Jan. 18, 1871, King Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed German emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107568.html (2746 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: German Literature
		Many of the poorer knights depended on the generosity of princely patrons, such as the landgraves of Thuringia or the dukes of Austria.
		The German language was neglected and devised in aristocratic circles and was corrupted by the influx of foreign words.
		In Germany, however, rationalism did not go to the length of atheism; as a rule a compromise between reason and revealed religion was attempted.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06517a.htm (12373 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)