History

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.

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…

In Germany, two individuals were indicted for complicity in murder in many cases. One of them is a former concentration camp guard, the other a former secretary who worked for a concentration camp's commander.

It started in Cologne. The artist Gunter Demnig could not accept the fact that residents did not know Gypsies who used to live there were deported and murdered…

In December, Berlin received a new 'U-Bahn' train line. António Guterres spoke at the Bundestag. And a political scandal erupted in Saxony-Anhalt.

In November of 2020, Germany reacted to the U.S. elections, Berlin closed its last airport, and a whole lot more happened.