Germany, one of the most historically and geographically diverse countries in Europe, is best understood through its maps.

An ambitious history of Germany interrogates the country’s moral makeover. In ‘Out of the Darkness,’ Frank Trentmann covers 80 years to assess the reckoning with the Nazi legacy.

Who needs A New History of German Literature? 1 What is wrong with the old ones? Quite a lot, actually. The most famous, Wilhelm Scherer’s Geschichte der Deutschen Literatur, was inspired by the noble ...

East Germany is, quite simply, part of German history and the country she grew up in. To ignore it, or to understand it through Cold war clichés, would be to misunderstand German history as a whole.

In Germany, meanwhile, the number of Christmas markets has also been on the rise for the last 50 years—tripling from about 950 markets in the 1970s to about 3,000 in 2019.