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

Created by the Allies 10 years after World War II to help defend Western Europe, the German army was designed to fight as ...

Holding two Ph.D.s, Mengele’s promising career as a scientist became his grotesque researches into twins and eye color.

As Berlin and Tel Aviv mark a diplomatic milestone, the relationship born out of pragmatism, guilt and survival faces its ...

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

Sten Rynning traces the political history of NATO from its inception in 1949, through to the ongoing Ukraine War and into ...

Museum Island was in ruins after World War II. The UNESCO World Heritage site was reborn thanks to a master plan.

Once trapped in communist East Germany, bustling Leipzig is now a city of business and of culture. It’s also a city of great ...

Henry Ford was a model, a massive employer of labour whose contribution to labour relations was way before his time, which is why the Ford Motor Company remains important to the rise and rise of ...

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

“And if a Russian president manipulates history, then as a historian ... using the official name of East Germany. “That it was in fact a dictatorship is often overlooked.” ...

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 ...