In the first week of May, following Adolph Hitler’s suicide on April 30, the Nazi regime collapsed. Berlin fell to the Soviets, and Axis armies in Italy gave up. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered, ...

Like many other young women living in communist East Germany, Solveig Leo thought nothing about juggling work and motherhood.

For people in Berlin and other German cities, going down on their knees on November ... Historians trace the phrase back to a ...

Last Wednesday, Olaf Scholz’s German government became perhaps the first indirect victim of Donald Trump’s election win. It’s ...

Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom ...

On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I took a Trabi through the heartlands of the former GDR ...

On Nov. 8, 1923, Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came ...

In the charts below, we see that eastern Germany’s population is not only older on average than that of the west, but it has fallen significantly since reunification — from 16mn in 1990 to 12.6mn in ...

Recent political events—the election of Donald Trump as US president and the consequent break-up of the coalition government in Germany ... Berlin this year.” Philipp J. is quoted as saying: “I don’t ...

Women's lives that have diverged so starkly under communism and capitalism have become much more similar again Like many ...

Germany is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the country’s reunification less than a year ...

BERLIN (AP) — Like many other young women living in communist ... during its decades of division following the country’s ...