Günter Grass, a Nobel Prize winner in literature, joined the chorus of critics, complaining about the fading of political power in a time of globalization.

In 2006, the Nobel Prize winning German author Günter Grass s disclosed that, 60 years earlier, he was, as a teenager, a member of the Waffen SS.

Gunther and Hans are friends.

Gunther and Hans are friends.

Anything to announce? asked Günter Schabowski, innocently.

December 18 William of Orange enters London.

After Mary's death in 1694, William continued as sole monarch until he was succeeded by Anne upon his death in 1702.

Jim is about as tall as Bill.

Wilhelm II became the leader of a country on the cusp of European mastery.

) Liddell Hart, B. H. (Preface) Blumenson, Martin (Introduction) (2004).

Within two years, Wilhelm II dismissed Bismarck.

In 1136, Archbishop of Canterbury William de Corbeil died.

Thus, Wilhelm unintentionally contributed to the outbreak of war in 1914.

Kaiser Wilhelm II invaded neutral Belgium to start WWI.

In 1831 Frederick William III decorated him for his service to the Prussian state.

Hans Vilhelm (H. V.) Kaalund (27 June 1818 27 April 1885) was a Danish lyric poet.

On 20 June 1837, William IV died at the age of 71, and Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom.

Wilhelm Ihne (2 February 1821 21 March 1902) was a German historian who was a native of Fürth.

Among the university's many noteworthy students were writers Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Erich Kästner, and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, political activist Karl Liebknecht, and composer Richard Wagner.

Wilhelm flaunted his absolute power, believing it to be divinely ordained. He was contemptuous of parliament, whose circumscribed powers were set forth in a constitution that he boasted of never having read.

Wilhelm flaunted his absolute power, believing it to be divinely ordained.

In 1875 he became a professor at the Academy of Agriculture at Hohenheim, Württemberg.

Stephen's second son, William, was married to the extremely wealthy heiress Isabel de Warenne.

But Wilhelm did not in fact rule, as Germany s conduct during WWI made clear.

William the Conqueror defeated king Harold in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings.

In 1857 Frederick William IV suffered a stroke and became mentally disabled for the rest of his life.

In 1813, he came nearest to any actual fighting, when he visited the British troops fighting in the Low Countries.

On 9 September 1689 (Gregorian calendar), William as King of England joined the League of Augsburg against France.

In 1876, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer described the properties of some liver cells now called Kupffer cell.

Charles was unable to pay, but William agreed to reduce the amount owed to 1,800,000 guilders.

Since his two older brothers died without leaving legitimate issue, he inherited the throne when he was 64 years old.

He had two elder brothers, George and Frederick, and was not expected to inherit the Crown.

Publishers successfully passed similar laws in Germany and Spain, and German head of digital economy policy at the European Commission Gunther Oettinger is considering introducing the policy at the EU level.

Frederick William III () (3 August 1770 7 June 1840) was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840.

He spent most of his early life in Richmond and at Kew Palace, where he was educated by private tutors.

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers ( October 11, 1758 March 2, 1840) was a German physician and astronomer.

His grandfather, Wilhelm I, had presided over Prussia s military victories, which enabled Bismarck to create the unified Reich in 1871.

Her son and successor King Edward VII, and her eldest grandson, Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, were at her deathbed.

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel ( 22 July 1784 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician (systematizer of the Bessel functions, which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli).

Enraged, the French king decided to execute a lightning campaign into Germany before the emperor could shift his troops to the West.

Eight days before William was born, his father died of smallpox thus William was the Sovereign Prince of Orange from the moment of his birth.

The Speaker of the Politburo, Günter Schabowski, had simply misunderstood that body s decision and, by releasing to the public incorrect information about the lifting of travel restrictions, triggered the fall of the Wall!

The city lost its status as a second capital in 1918, when Wilhelm II abdicated at the end of World War I.

Like Grass, Germans especially the younger generations, who feel further removed from the events of WWII are increasingly abandoning the notion that they owe it to Israel to remain its silent, steadfast supporters.

Frederick William IV ( 15 October 1795 2 January 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, reigned as King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861.