German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands in front of her election-campaign tour bus before a meeting in Berlin on September 16, 2013. ... Merkel's childhood was shaped by the Stasi, or secret police.

Excerpts from Angela Merkel's soon-to-be-published autobiography cover everything from growing up in a dictatorship to the conflict in Ukraine. A look at the key quotes.

After a childhood behind the Iron Curtain, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of a united Germany for 16 years, becoming the most powerful woman in the world while dealing with its most powerful men.

Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world, is no friend of her biographers. It’s not only that the groundbreaking German chancellor routinely refuses to be interviewed. Merkel ...

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with author Kati Marton about her new biography of Angela Merkel, The Chancellor, and what her departure will mean for Germany and the world. Sponsor Message.

Now that Angela Merkel has stepped down as Germany's Chancellor, many believe she might spend a lot more time in her native Uckermark region outside Berlin, but things have changed there since her ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a news conference at the conclusion of a European Union summit in Brussels, Dec. 13. ... who has written a biography about Merkel.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands in front of her election-campaign tour bus before a meeting in Berlin on September 16, 2013. ... Merkel's childhood was shaped by the Stasi, or secret police.