At the height of the Cold War, the political leadership of the Federal Republic of Germany built the government bunker here.

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 ...

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.

The Berlin Apartment' immerses users in the lives of past city residents. They experience German history through the game, ...

Germany's Bundeswehr was founded on November 12, 1955. The decision was highly controversial, just 10 years after the end of ...

BERLIN, Sept. 9 -- The Jewish Museum, which opened here tonight sheathed in metal and shaped like a lightning bolt piercing the cityscape, is an architectural sermon: In the city that Adolf Hitler ...

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 ...

Germany is actively preparing for the possibility of war with Russia, developing a comprehensive 1,200-page military plan, ...