History

Thirty years after Germany's reunification, the Unity Expo was opened in Potsdam this past weekend. It shows what happened in the past 30 years, in 30 glass boxes anyone can take a look at.

Forty-eight years ago in Munich, Palestinian terrorists murdered almost the entire Israeli team at the Olympic Games. West Germany aided the culprits by making…

Alexander von Humboldt was a universal scholar who worked on his research relentlessly. His 5-year expedition on the American continent, his best-known project,…

The hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims of Romani origin are not being commemorated much. Neither is their sad history part of school curricula. The Council of Europe wants this to change, 76 years after the Nazis "cleared" the 'Gypsy Family Camp'.

Germany's Defense Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer and Berlin's Governing Mayor Müller were part of a commemoration event for Graf von Stauffenberg and his allies…

The Berlin Wall was a symbol for the entire Iron Curtain between the area of the Warsaw Pact and the West during the Cold War. Back then, there were GDR…

The participants and victims of the uprising of June 17th, 1953, in the GDR were commemorated today. Berlin's Governing Mayor Müller said freedom and democracy always needed to be defended and protected.

During a commemoration event for the victims of Nazi Germany's crimes, the President of its successor country, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, held an impressive…

In 1945, liberating Nazi Germany was not the Allies' main goal. They had to defeat it. The war and the terror spread by the fascist state needed to end. After…

In Germany, the victims of the Nazi concentration camps in Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück were commemorated today, on the 75th anniversary of their liberation. Because of Corona, two remembrance events took place online. Another was postponed.