The sinking of the German fleet interned at Scapa-Flow (Orkney Islands), June 21, 1919. We know that one of the stipulations of the armistice signed with Germany on November 11, 1918 was that that power's surface warships were to be "immediately decommissioned and interned in neutral or Allied ports, and remain there under the supervision of the Allies and the United States, guard detachments only being maintained on board". In fact, all the ships designated by the Allies - 11 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 7 light cruisers and 50 destroyers - had, a few days after the armistice, been assembled in Scapa-Flow Bay, in the center of the Orkney archipelago, i.e. north of Scotland, and had remained there ever since, under the supervision of the English naval authorities, but under the effective authority of German Admiral von Reuter.

The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska an...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within t...

In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines t...

Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago ...

When the United States entered World War I, its Army Air Service lacked a combat-ready aircraft – a ...

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant ...

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coinci...

In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientiou...

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accura...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons,...

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war ...