History

August 12th, 1961, was a warm summer day in Berlin. Just like today, tourists looked at Brandenburg Gate from all angles. They were interested in this vibrant city, which was about to change substantially.

Victor Baruch, one of the 50,000 Bulgarian Jews who were saved from the Nazis, and the only Bulgarian to cover the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, celebrates his…

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…

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 her to become active against Nazi Germany's regime. At age 21, she was murdered by the state.

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…

In Weimar and the nearby Buchenwald memorial site, the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the former concentration camp was observed today. Because of Corona, there were few participants. Germany's President Frank Walter Steinmeier was among them.

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…

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 on Sunday.