History

In the 1970s and 80s, West Germany was special, in many ways. It would be good to return for a few days, as a visitor, a tourist, a spectator. In the old FRG, things were not all bad. Unfortunately, they were not all good either.

In Germany, November 9th is a historic day. On the one hand, it stands for a very positive development, namely the fall of the Berlin Wall 31 years ago. On the…

Ernst Marcus, a Berlin lawyer, woke up in his apartment in the German capital's Grunewald district eighty-two years ago. What he saw was unbelievable.

In Potsdam, Germany celebrated the 30th anniversary of its reunification today. President Steinmeier, First Minister Woidke and contemporary witnesses spoke to the nation.

Korea is today's best example for a country split up into two parts. A communist and a democratic one. In Germany, this kind of situation ended with the…

In 1941, German soldiers murdered more than 30,000 Jews from Kiev within one and a half days. What took place at the Babi Yar gorge was one of the most horrific…

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…

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…

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 today. The Wehrmacht soldiers tried to overthrow the Nazi regime in 1944.