WEST CARROLL PARISH, La. — According to the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, LA 585 west of Darnell in West Carroll Parish will be closed beginning on Monday, April 21 ...

Last week West Germany was dynamically prosperous and once again the world’s third largest trading nation. It had been restored to health by billions in U.S. aid, by a sympathetic occupation and ...

So far, we’ve looked at the Soviet Union in 1960, Spain in 1964, Italy in 1968, West Germany in 1972 and Czechoslovakia in 1976. This time, it’s the turn of the West Germans again, in 1980.

East Germany's leadership had already sealed off the country's main border with West Germany, which snaked from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia, in 1952. The 96-mile-long wall was built by the ...

Beckenbauer was one of German soccer's central figures. As a player, he reimagined the defender's role in soccer and captained West Germany to the World Cup title in 1974 after it had lost to ...

Given West Germany didn’t even recognise the DDR as a proper country — the national tabloid Bild even referred to the East in inverted commas — this was hardly a surprise. No doubt the ...

Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss has never been quite frank about his plans for West Germany’s defense contribution to NATO. His predecessor, Theodor Blank, promised to field twelve German ...

The center-right CDU was in power for much of Germany’s post-war era and oversaw the reunification of East and West Germany. It remains the country’s most popular party but now sits in ...

In a life that crisscrossed the East-West border that once divided Germany, Biermann’s music and principled moral stance made him a rare figure who transcended that barrier. Now, his tale is a ...