German political scientist Jürgen Falter has devoted much of his career to studying Nazi membership records and has written extensively on the rise of Adolf Hitler and his party. He had previously ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Both domestically and internationally, Germany is struggling to disentangle its past from events today in Gaza Germany, more than any other country, is struggling to disentangle the horrors of the 7 ...

The coalition government wants to expand its remembrance culture to include the history of German colonialism. Initial proposals have been met with criticism, in particular from heads of Holocaust ...

Richard J. Evans is one of the world’s leading experts on Nazi Germany, and the author of the definitive three-volume account of German history from 1918 to 1945. A professor emeritus of history at ...

West Germany adopted its constitution in 1949 and amended it many times, with some controversial additions, such as the creation of the Bundeswehr. When the Basic Law was adopted on May 23, 1949, it ...

From the intellectual giants who enriched the west to the descent into dictatorship and war, the story of Germany’s global impact – up to its modern rebirth – is told with real verve Are we – the ...

The forest has shaped German society for centuries: from the wood shortage of the Middle Ages, to the forest as a source of identity in the Romantic period, to the so-called "Waldsterben" of the 1980s ...

Author Valerie Schönian, who was born in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt in 1990 – just a few days before reunification – is only familiar with walls dividing the country from films. Nevertheless, ...