History

Seventy-three years ago today, the Berlin Airlift ended. This unprecedented aid program saved two million lives during the Soviet Union's Berlin Blockade. At a small ceremony at 'Airlift Square', Senator Andreas Geisel stated the 'raisin bombers' had been symbols of hope.

Seven-Seven years ago today, General Alfred Jodl signed Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender. The Allies, including the Soviet Union, had finally liberated…

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

Colonel Halvorsen was a young U.S. Air Force soldier when Moscow blocked access to Berlin's Western sectors in 1948. He quickly became the most famous 'Raisin Bomber' pilot. On both sides of the Atlantic, he will be missed.

In Wilhelmsburg, a borough in Hamburg that is located between two arms of the Elbe River, people started going to bed. A storm surge had been announced. But…

The Berlin Bundestag observed the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust on Thursday. Inge Auerbacher, a survivor, told…

On January 20th, 1942, some of Hitler's henchmen gathered in a villa at the Wannsee, one of Berlin's lakes. Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reich Security Main Office, SS-'Obersturmbannführer' Adolf Eichmann and thirteen more Nazi officials discussed the deportation and murder of Europe's Jews while they were enjoying drinks.

In late 2021, Germany had a new government and a deteriorating Corona pandemic. Not all news in the second half of the year were Corona-related though. What…

At the end of 2021, there seem to be lots of similarities with last year's situation. A new, more contagious variant of the Coronavirus is hitting Germany, the…

During the Night of Broken Glass on November 9th, 1938, mobs destroyed businesses owned by Jews and burned down synagogues all over Germany. Fifty-one years later, on November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That is why November 9th is both a terrible and a positive date.