These and a thousand other memorials and rituals are expressions of Germany’s Erinnerungskultur, a “memory culture” built up ...

Unique German silver and brass-inlaid Colorado State Penitentiary-made mounted spurs with heel bands adorned with 1-1/3-inch engraved, inlaid circles with brass borders, each encasing a five-point ...

German lawmakers have "more open than answered questions" over the former health minister's procurement of expensive ...

Leading German opposition lawmakers are demanding the resignation of former health minister Jens Spahn from his top parliamentary post over misuse of public funds during the coronavirus crisis in ...

The state premier of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has called on the new government of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to take decisive action to kick start the sluggish economy. "No economic growth for ...

Tim Mohr, the journalist and translator who chronicled the political importance of the 1980s East German punk scene and co-wrote memoirs with Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Kiss leader Paul ...

It was during this period that the terraces of East German football grounds became havens for right-wing extremists, including at Dynamo Berlin, whose superiority, thanks in part to favourable ...

A German art collector lost a lawsuit Friday he filed in an attempt to keep an ancient mask deemed to have been looted from Egypt.

Oboists rarely strike out on their own. James Austin Smith’s recent program at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust—pieces culled entirely from the vaults of the German Democratic Republic—was a ...

The Lost History of East Germany Katya Hoyer argues for a closer look at the triumphs and travails of everyday life under socialism.

Apart from that kind of an insult, East German soldiers were regarded as fighters from the working class. Behind other doors and in drawers there is a military service ID card, a gas mask, and a ...