Frederick II, later “the Great,” managed to combine his military ... In the late 1740s Frederick began building an extravagant summer palace in Potsdam, near Berlin. In homage to his ...

Beginning its life as a summer home for the royal family in the late 17th century, Schloss Charlottenburg became a lavish palace after Frederick the Great commissioned some 18th-century upgrades ...

The one who made Prussia a leading European power was born in a freezing cold winter in the palace at Potsdam, just outside Berlin, son of Frederick William I. He had what can be described with ...

It has done no favours to the modern reputation of King Frederick II of Prussia – ‘Frederick the Great’ – that Hitler ... out with even greater clarity in Frederick’s private palace, Sanssouci – the ...