Many scholars have stressed the favor shown to the bastard sons of noblemen, particularly in the "golden age of noble bastards" in the fifteenth century. This article examines the position of noble ...

While the fourth Union Shoe Organisation was being suppressed in the Black Forest, Luther, in Wittenberg, gave the signal to a movement which was destined to draw all the estates into its torrent, and ...

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The children of mixed marriages and of noble parentage, that is in cases where Jews have intermarried with the German oblity, will be considered illegitimat., unless it is proven that the pa###nts ...

The purification of the German nobility, which was begun in the fall of 1933, will be energetically pursued until “not even a single drop of Jew blood runs in the veins of the German nobles,” Lieut.

(THE CONVERSATION) Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of peasants roamed the German countryside seeking recruits. It was the start of the German Peasants’ War, the largest ...