Deep beneath the vineyards of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate once lay one of the most secretive places in ...

IN THE fall of 1946 an American commission consisting of government officials, educators, and scientists toured Germany. (I have a particularly vivid memory of the striking personality of Reinhold ...

My passion for modern German history emerged out of my childhood. Reared in Boston and Los Angeles in the 1970s, I grew up barely one generation removed from the Holocaust, and I met many Germans who ...

From the end of the monarchy to the 1938 pogroms to the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9 is a significant date on the German calendar.The date on which the monarchy fell in 1918, Adolf Hitler ...

Over the weekend, Elon Musk spoke at a rally for the far-right German political party AfD (“Alternative für Deutschland,” or “Alternative for Germany”) and said there had been “too much of a focus on ...

In April 1928, Joseph Goebbels, later the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, wrote a newspaper essay addressing the question of why the National Socialists, despite being an “anti-parliamentarian party ...

As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz — a key part of a series of watershed World War II anniversaries this year — all eyes will be on Germany. Angela ...

Perched on a steep hilltop in southern Germany, the striking turrets of Hohenzollern Castle rise in contrast to the rolling countryside that surrounds them. The fortress is the ancestral seat of ...

BERLIN --The co-leader of the far-right nationalist Alternative for Germany party on Saturday dismissed the Nazi era as a "speck of bird poop" in German history, drawing swift condemnation from ...

Late in the spring of 2020, Jan Marsalek, an Austrian bank executive, was suspended from his job. He was a widely admired figure in the European business community—charismatic, trilingual, and well ...

From bucolic swaths of wine country to Parthenon-inspired architecture, you can expect to encounter the continent’s highlights here Sponsored Content by With its walkable town centers, spectacular ...