New York City’s probable next mayor will be the first in history to have attended St George’s Grammar School in Cape Town, an Anglican school in Mowbray.

But we had “Deutschland Uber Alles” (Germany over everything), as well as “Das Tausendjahrigge Reich” (the Empire of a Thousand Years) of the Nazis, and we know it was a real state of flux because it ...

August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben. Soundtrack: The Book Thief. August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben was born on 2 April 1798 in Fallersleben, Lower Saxony, Germany. August Heinrich died on ...

I would be curious to know the source of the idea that the music to Deutschland Uber Alles was played in the evenings. As this music by Haydn was first published ten years later, it seems a complete ...