History

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 citizens who thought fleeing to the West via Bulgaria would be easier. Many of them were killed trying.

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…

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 the war, it took West Germany decades to understand May 8th is actually a day of liberation.

In Germany, the victims of the Nazi concentration camps in Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück were commemorated today, on the 75th anniversary of…

Seventy-five years ago, Anne Frank died in Nazi Germany's Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her spirit, wisdom and optimism, even in the terrible situation she…

Remembrance in Dresden, the city that was bombed by the Allies 75 years ago today, and in which up to 25,000 people died as a result, three months before Nazi Germany was finally defeated, is difficult and complicated because of the guilt aspect.

In the early 1970s, the most horrific antisemitic terror attacks took place in Munich. Fifty years ago today, seven Holocaust survivors were murdered at the…

At Brandenburg Gate, Berliners, Germans from elsewhere and visitors from all over the world celebrated the fall of the Wall on Saturday with an impressive stage…

When the winter sky over Berlin was blood-red, many could not believe what they saw. When things got even worse, only very few tried to prevent it. Hitler's "willing executioners" (Goldhagen) could do what they intended to do.