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.

This time, it’s the turn of an exciting West Germany team. Conventional wisdom suggests that German football, and the (West) German national team in particular, were the bad guys throughout the ...

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 ...

In the diplomatic struggle for Germany, the West for a change won a major tactical victory. It checkmated the Russian offer of a united but “neutralized” Germany with a better offer of its own.

And since the radical reunion of East and West at the end of the Cold War, Germany has become Europe’s undisputed leader. Yet beneath Germany’s success runs an ongoing undertow of xenophobia ...

Reporting from Dresden, Germany — Ingolf Koecher and his wife, Bettina, have marched in 120 anti-Islam rallies in the former East German city of Dresden during the last four years. The retired ...

The AfD has capitalized on this in the former East Germany, which, historically, has experienced less immigration than the former West Germany. The party’s anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim ...

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 ...

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 ...