US soldiers dropped an atomic bomb on an inhabited area for the first time in human history. Their target on August 6, 1945, ...

Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of East/West ...

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Germany’s defense overhaul challenges decades of restraint under the Merz government amid rising global security threats ...

As a young lawyer and a Communist revolutionary, he helped start the violent Red Army Faction. Later, he went to prison as a ...

The victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been remembered at a ceremony in the German city of Potsdam ...

The actor, writer, translator, and photographer, a figure of Germany's artistic and intellectual scene, arrived in the walled ...

Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

Eighty years ago today a great international conference was happening that indelibly shaped the world to come. Let’s take a ...

Britain and Germany are launching a joint military project to build a “super-Taurus” long-range missile system, German media reported on Thursday. The two nations have agreed “within the next 10 years ...

Never mind Nato’s obligation to defend West Berlin, Macmillan was still troubled by what Germany had done to Britain ... “surprised” that Thursday’s treaty was the first since 1945. He seems not to ...

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, in the Cecilienhof Palace. The key issues discussed and ...