History

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.

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

Exactly eighty years ago, German soldiers murdered 33,771 Jews from Kiev within one and a half days. What took place at Babi Yar was one of the most horrific…

August 12th, 1961, was a warm summer day in Berlin. Just like today, tourists looked at Brandenburg Gate from all angles. They were interested in this vibrant city, which was about to change substantially.

Victor Baruch, one of the 50,000 Bulgarian Jews who were saved from the Nazis, and the only Bulgarian to cover the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, celebrates his…

Every year, Berlin celebrates the Airlift, which ended 72 year ago. The operation organized by the Western Allies saved the lives of the residents in Berlin's…

Sophie Scholl was born into a liberal and Christian family in southern Germany on May 9th, 1921. By the time she was a student in Munich, her conscience forced her to become active against Nazi Germany's regime. At age 21, she was murdered by the state.

Seventy-six years after fascist Nazi Germany was defeated by the Allies, politicians in its successor state, the Federal Republic of Germany, thanked the…

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…

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.