For decades, Germany has stood squarely in Israel’s corner, its dark history of Jewish persecution shaping its modern-day ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

It may lack half-timbered and lederhosen charm, but Leipzig’s fascinating history earns it a place on your European bucket ...

It has a history dating all the way back to the Holy ... Erfurt escaped bombing in World War 2 and was preserved as part of East Germany. So visiting Erfurt is a real historical treat with its ...

On a wet evening in Suhl, in the former East Germany ... figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Höcke, a former history teacher, has been found guilty of using Nazi ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. The word “unprecedented” may get near-inflationary use in political ...

In 1731, the first Chinese merchant ship arrived in Hamburg. By the 19th century, Chinese seafarers had begun settling in the ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. “Germany is back,” says Friedrich Merz, the country’s likely next ...