Germany, one of the most historically and geographically diverse countries in Europe, is best understood through its maps. From its medieval beginnings to modern-day developments, the country’s ...

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.

West Germany’s first chancellor, the conservative Konrad Adenauer, won a landslide reelection in 1957—the greatest electoral showing of any party ever in German history—while running under ...

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes; so goes the quip attributed to Mark Twain. The new German nationalists — an ascendant party called Alternative for Germany, or AfD — are ...

DW. The forgotten history of German-Russians. Posted: September 21, 2024 | Last updated: December 15, 2024. Invited by Catherine the Great, many German colonists settled in Russia in the 18th Century.