History

Fifty years ago, Palestinian terrorists murdered almost the entire Israeli team at the Olympic Games in Munich. Back then, the West German authorities made serious mistakes. One of those has not been corrected until today.

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

On June 15th, 1961, the GDR's dictator Walter Ulbricht said nobody had the intention to build a wall. But two months later, the communist regime did so anyway.…

The hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims of Romani origin are not being commemorated much. The Council of Europe and other organizations want this to change, 78 years after the Nazis "cleared" the 'Gypsy Family Camp'.

The participants of the uprising of June 17th, 1953, and the victims of its suppression will be commemorated today. Berlin's Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey…

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…

Seven-Seven years ago today, General Alfred Jodl signed Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender. The Allies, including the Soviet Union, had finally liberated Europe from fascism. Today and tomorrow, commemorations for the victims are scheduled to take place in a difficult situation.

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…

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 hardly any residents knew their lives were in danger until it was too late.