History

Every year, Berlin celebrates the Airlift, which ended 72 year ago. The operation organized by the Western Allies saved the lives of the residents in Berlin's Western districts after the Soviet Union started the Berlin Blockade. A small anniversary event took place in Tempelhof this morning.

Sophie Scholl was born into a liberal and Christian family in southern Germany on May 9th, 1921. By the time she was a student in Munich, her conscience forced…

Seventy-six years after fascist Nazi Germany was defeated by the Allies, politicians in its successor state, the Federal Republic of Germany, thanked the…

The Berlin Wall was a symbol for the entire Iron Curtain between the area of the Soviet Bloc and the West during the Cold War. Back then, there were GDR citizens who thought fleeing to the West via Bulgaria would be easier. Many of them were killed trying.

In Weimar and the nearby Buchenwald memorial site, the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the former concentration camp was observed today. Because of…

The Eichmann case is directly connected to the darkest chapter in the history of Germany and of mankind. Sixty years ago, the young state of Israel brought the…

Seventy-eight years ago today, Sophie and Hans Scholl were executed at Stadelheim Prison in Munich. Their "crime": They had spread the truth about Nazi Germany and the war on leaflets.

Jewish life in the area of today's Germany is being celebrated, 1,700 years after it began, and 76 years after the Holocaust. A ceremony took place in Cologne…

In the early 1970s, several horrific antisemitic terror attacks took place in Munich. Exactly fifty-one years ago, seven Holocaust survivors were murdered at…

When President Frank-Walter Steinmeier enters the Bundesrat something must be going on. In its 1,000th session, he said the country's federalism was "many-voiced and diverse". And he is right.