Leni Riefenstahl, director of the Triumph of the Will, reacts as Polish civilians are shot by German soldiers 1939

Then Princess Juliana of the Netherlands with Kaiser Wilhelm II. Doorn 1938

Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, with fellow soldiers 1915-1916

Queen Victoria's funeral procession, among them King Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the Duke of Connaught 1901

Soviet soldiers after withdrawing from Afghanistan late 1980s

Prince Adalbert of Prussia with his son 1941

Hitler and other Nazis visiting Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides 1940

The Raczyński Palace at Königsplatz, the place where the Reichstag Building was built, with the Brandenburg Gate to the right and in the background, the rest of Berlin 1880

Kaiser Wilhelm II and his court dressed up in clothes from the era of Frederick the Great pre-1914

Victoria, Princess Royal with her child Wilhelm 1859

Mao Zedong and the Dalai Lama Beijing 1954

People in front of Buckingham Palace after the declaration of war 1914

Kaiser Wilhelm II with his cousin King George V in London 1911

German child soldiers 1945

Emperor Napoleon III with Queen Victoria and their spouses at the Crystal Palace 1855

A post mortem photo of William I, German Emperor who died aged 90, 1888

German soldiers marching into Neu Sendec as Jewish civilians look on 1915

Queen Victoria and her daughter Victoria 1888

A room in the Berlin Royal Palace 1920s

Queen Mary in Berlin at the wedding of the Kaiser's daughter 1913

Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Charles 1948

Kaiser Wilhelm II with Prince Friedrich "Fritzi" Eduard zu Fürstenberg 1904

Kaiser Wilhelm I. with his son, grandson and great-grandson 1882

The German Empress and Emperor 1883

Kaiser Wilhelm I at his study, on his desk is a portrait of his former lover Elisa Radziwiłł, taken around 1880

Kaiser Wilhelm II talking to a worker in a Krupp factory September 1918

Tsar Alexander III with his family in 1888

Kaiser Wilhelm II with his troops 1916

Kaiser Wilhelm II with his wife, Augusta Victoria on vacation in Norway July 1914

Queen Victoria’s children, Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal and Princess Helena in Les deux petits Savoyards 1854

Queen Elizabeth II with her son Prince Charles 1957

A German Soldier and his son during the outbreak of WW1 1914

Winston Churchill with Kaiser Wilhelm II. in 1908

Kaiser Wilhelm II. with President Roosevelt 1910

Stalin's statue toppled in Budapest 1956

Kaiser Wilhelm II passing through an arch built for him by the Jewish Community in Jerusalem 1898

Queen Victoria with then-Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, future German Kaiser 1864

Tsar Nicholas II. with his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II. on a ship 1905

Sophie Scholl with her brother Hans Scholl and his friends 1942

Kaiser Wilhelm II. in the uniform of a British Field Marshal 1900

German soldiers with a group of Russian Jews during World War I 1915

The Statue of Germania on the Reichstag 1894

King Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm II, King Alfonso XIII and their wives 1907

Kaiser Wilhelm II and Winston Churchill watching maneuvers in Breslau/Wroclaw 1904

Hugo Gutmann, German Jewish officer and superior of Adolf Hitler that recommended him for the Iron Cross 1918

German Jewish soldiers in front of a synagogue in Lodz WW1 ~1915

Prince Henry of Prussia and his wife Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine 1887

King George V on the Western Front 1917

Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert 1854

Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon toasting 1976

The reconstruction of the Equestrian Statue of Frederick the Great Unter den Linden, East Berlin 1980

King Edward VII with his brother Prince Arthur in 1894

The German Ambassador to the UK, Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky, at Hyde Park right after the declaration of war on Germany 1914

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom with her nephew, the then Prince Wilhelm of Prussia 1861

Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace, in 1848

Crowds cheer at the German Imperial Family after the declaration of war against Russia 1914

Eduard Bloch, an Austrian Jew who treated Hitler's mom while she had cancer, at his clinic 1938

Max Immelmann, a German flying ace in WW1, and was the first aviator to win the Pour le Mérite, which was nicknamed the Blue Max, 1916

Soviet Soldiers at the National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument in Berlin 1945

Angela Merkel's grandparents, Ludwig Kasner (Ludwik Kaźmierczak) and Margarethe Pörschke 1919

Kaiser Wilhelm II dressed up in the style of Frederick the Great 1899

Reservists and their children in Berlin August 1914

Kaiser Wilhelm II in a costume 1900s

Kaiser Wilhelm II. with his cousin Tsar Nicholas II. in 1905

Then Prince Wilhelm of Prussia with Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria 1883

Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II 1900s

German and Soviet troops greeting each other 1918

Kaiser Wilhelm II. talking with Ethiopians at the Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg in 1909

Empress Frederick with her mother Queen Victoria after the death of Frederick III 1888

Queen Victoria on her death bed 1901

King Edward VII visiting Kaiser Wilhelm II 1909

Queen Victoria with her daughter Victoria, Princess Royal (later German Empress and then Empress Frederick) 1860s

Adolf Hitler, Franz von Papen and Minister of Defence Werner von Blomberg 1933

Children playing as soldiers Berlin 1914

Queen Victoria with her daughter, Victoria, 1845

Queen Victoria's children and their spouses and the Danish Royal Family the day before the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of Denmark 1863

Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother at King George VI's funeral 1952

Full-sized photo of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Winston Churchill meeting in Breslau (now Wrocław) early 1900s

Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia with his son, Wilhelm, at Balmoral Castle 1863

Kaiser Wilhelm II with the Imperial Family of Russia 1909

Queen Alexandra (middle) with her sisters Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia and the former Crown Princess of Hanover, Thyra 1910

The British Army crossing the Rhine into Cologne past a statue of Kaiser Wilhelm II 1919

Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren 1894

Queen Victoria with Prince Albert with their daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal, just before her wedding 1858

Brandenburg Gate and Unter den Linden with the Royal Palace and the Berliner Dom in the background Berlin 1913

A Post Mortem Picture of Emperor Frederick III, 1888

The Armistice Wagon used for the Armistice of 11 November being taken out of a museum by the Germans for the Franco-German Armistice 1940

Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, with his brother 1915

Queen Alexandra with her dogs 1890-1900s

Otto von Bismarck in his office 1889 Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-J0320-0500-001 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

The Kaiser on vacation July 25, 1914, 3 days before the Austro-Hungarian declaration of war on Serbia

The daughters of Karl Marx, Jenny Carolina and Jenny Laura Marx, named after their mother Jenny von Westphalen, 1869

Kaiser Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria on their Jerusalem visit 1898

Soviet Soldiers at the Victory Column Berlin 1945

King Edward VII with Kaiser Wilhelm II, Queen Alexandra, the future King George V, Princess Mary, the future King George VI, Prince Henry, and the future King Edward VIII 1903

Students in front of the then Frederick William University of Berlin 1916

Then Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria with his mother Queen Maria and brother Otto 1863

Alexanderplatz Berlin 1903

Students commemorating the late General Secretary Hu Yaobang on Tiananmen Square 1989

Royal Gathering, including the Tsar, the Kaiser and the Prince of Wales, at Coburg 1894