IN THE fall of 1946 an American commission consisting of government officials, educators, and scientists toured Germany. (I have a particularly vivid memory of the striking personality of Reinhold ...
Deep beneath the vineyards of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate once lay one of the most secretive places in ...
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.
9 B.C.: Pagan Germanic tribes check advancing Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, ending northward spread of Roman civilization, bounding the Roman Empire by the Danube and Rhine. c.700 A.D.
Germany's Bundeswehr was founded on November 12, 1955. The decision was highly controversial, just 10 years after the end of ...
Perched on a steep hilltop in southern Germany, the striking turrets of Hohenzollern Castle rise in contrast to the rolling countryside that surrounds them. The fortress is the ancestral seat of ...
The German declaration of war against the United States on Dec. 11, 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, was a turning point in the history of World War II, and ...
As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz — a key part of a series of watershed World War II anniversaries this year — all eyes will be on Germany. Angela ...
The Berlin Apartment' immerses users in the lives of past city residents. They experience German history through the game, ...
Key Point: History could have been very different for Germany. When it comes to alternative history, the Second World War is king. Dozens of books and wargames suggest how history would have changed ...