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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FOR the past year or so West Germany has been marking time in a political sense. After the controversy over Dr. Adenauer’s retirement from the chancellorship and the choice of a successor ...

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 ...

BERLIN — The first chancellor of West Germany used the state intelligence agency to spy on the leading opposition party just eight years after World War II, according to a new bombshell study.