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HAMBURG (Reuters) -Attempts will be made on Friday and over the weekend to reopen the river Mosel in west Germany on a ...
Freight shipping on the river Mosel in west Germany has been blocked to shipping after an accident involving a passenger ship ...
Meanwhile, West Germany’s NATO allies agreed to ban many East German businessmen and officials from their countries and to levy a $5 fee on travel documents for other East Germans visiting ...
West German politics are now in a more fluid state than at any other time since the Federal Republic came into being. Political pundits expect the Christian Democrats to poll 44 or 45 percent of ...
West Germany defeated England in the quarter-finals over two legs to reach the four-team final tournament, with the 3-1 first-leg victory at Wembley remembered particularly fondly in Germany ...
Until recently, West Germany was largely content to let the U.S. and other NATO allies call the tune on East-West policy. Of late a militant, assertive new spirit has risen east of the Rhine. It ...
To reach voters outside its Eastern heartlands, the AfD is putting a new gloss on its anti-immigrant message — while sticking ...
Reporting from Dresden, Germany — Ingolf Koecher and his wife, Bettina, have marched in 120 anti-Islam rallies in the former East German city of Dresden during the last four years. The retired ...
Despite substantial improvements in recent decades, the former East Germany continues to trail the former West Germany on important economic measures ranging from unemployment to productivity, ...
On this day in 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of division that began in the aftermath of World War II by reuniting to become one nation. The occasion, The New York Times ...
In West Germany, on the other hand, the tax and benefit system discouraged dual-earner families. School schedules were short, typically ending around lunchtime, and childcare centres were scarce.
Edward Luttwak’s assertions in his response (Letters, Sept. 12) to my op-ed (“Station U.S. Troops in Poland, Not Germany,” Sept. 6) seem to be more bias confirmation than analysis of the ...