Berliners line up to pay their respects at one of the city's Soviet World War II memorials. May 8, 2025. (Dave Braneck/Courthouse News) BERLIN (CN) — The horrifying history of World War II doesn’t ...

Quietly unfolding as a folk-horror of German history, the stories in the film are told from the peripheries and through the ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Hoyer has several important advantages that Steinbeck and Capa lacked. East Germany’s fearsome internal security apparatus is long gone, which means her surviving subjects are free to speak openly ...

Germany has spent decades reckoning with its Nazi history and the Holocaust. But in recent years, far-right extremism and violent plots, especially against Jews, Muslims and immigrants, have been on ...

Germany's Bundeswehr was founded on November 12, 1955. The decision was highly controversial, just 10 years after the end of World War II. Today, the Bundeswehr is expected to assume a leadership role ...

Germany devotes enormous resources to educating school children about the Holocaust, antisemitism, and discrimination. Despite that, antisemitic and anti-immigrant rhetoric has increased. Today is ...

I was hosted but opinions expressed are my own. If you’ve already savored the beer, brats, and big cities of Germany, it may ...

Germany’s Holocaust memorial day warns that atrocities begin not with gas chambers but with language, spectacle, and indifference. The United States is not Nazi Germany, yet the erosion of democratic ...