The student who hunted Nazi judges in postwar Germany
Two years after World War II ended, Reinhard Strecker left Germany for Paris, France, with the intention of never again setting foot on German soil. When he did return to ...
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Two years after World War II ended, Reinhard Strecker left Germany for Paris, France, with the intention of never again setting foot on German soil. When he did return to ...
The German government agreed on Thursday to almost-entirely abolish the so-called solidarity tax. Introduced in 1991 after German reunification, the tax on people in formerWest Germany raised money to invest in projects ...
Imagine that from one day to the next, your entire life is turned upside down. Your job disappears, your degree is worthless, and the values that governed society are suddenly ...
The scene was Potsdamer Platz in the heart of divided Berlin at about 5 a.m. on Nov. 12, 1989. On the far side of the Wall that had become the ...
Most people know that the storming of the Bastille triggered the French Revolution, the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered World War I, and the fall of the ...
The increase in happiness was particularly dramatic in the former East Germany, despite that region’s lower economic success overall. The conclusions were from a Pew Research Center survey released on ...
Reunited Berlin’s mayor Michael Müller told a memorial service Tuesday that the Wall’s erection in 1961 and its fall during East Germany’s peaceful demise in 1989 were “both memories that belong ...
BERLIN — German authorities on Wednesday extended compensation payments to more gay men who were investigated under a law criminalizing homosexuality that was enthusiastically enforced in West Germany after World ...
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