The claim: Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the daughter of Adolf Hitler. A Feb. 19 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows several images of former German Chancellor Angela ...

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 ...

The claim: Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the daughter of Adolf Hitler. A Feb. 19 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows several images of former German Chancellor Angela ...

A version of the claim can be seen ().The post reads: “This woman was controlling the Democratic Party from Germany and she’s the daughter of Hitler” above a photo of Angela Merkel.

Merkel, now 70, begins by recounting the first 35 years of her life, in East Germany. A pastor’s daughter whose family was critical of the German Democratic Republic, Merkel learned early on ...

Angela Merkel started the year as a lame duck. Her succession plan had collapsed and her party was losing ground to the fringes. But as coronavirus spread across the globe, the German leader ...

Germany votes in national election to replace Angela Merkel 06:32. ... the former research scientist and daughter of a Lutheran preacher was finally saying "aufedersein" as the leader of her country.

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.

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 ...

BERLIN (AFP) - Angela Merkel, an unflappable pastor's daughter, cemented her title as the world's most powerful woman on Sunday, triumphantly romping home to a third term as German chancellor.