A project to renew an old train line would bring new stations and faster connections to passengers in Berlin. Here are the new routes being planned in the city’s southwest.
A German activist of the notorious far-left Red Army Faction (RAF) wanted for more than 30 years for attempted murder and other crimes has been arrested in Berlin, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The inner German border separated East and West Germany from 1949 until the two sides reunited in 1990. Though the border was destroyed 30 years ago, it still impacts the lives of people living on either side of the line.
This week's Berlin international film festival is wrestling on and off screen with the weight of the Nazi past and the menace of a resurgent far right.
Germany has abandoned a plan to drop the term "race" from its constitution over legal concerns and reservations from the Jewish community, government sources told AFP on Friday.
Holocaust survivor Eva Szepesi on Wednesday welcomed mass German protests against the resurgent far right but said
stronger action was crucial to stand up to rising anti-Semitism.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged Thursday to protect Germany's Jews against a "shameful" upsurge in anti-Semitism in the
wake of the Israel-Hamas war, on the anniversary of the Nazi pogrom that began the Holocaust.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday
expressed his "shame" at crimes committed during Germany's colonial rule in Tanzania and pledged to raise awareness of the atrocities in his own country.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday called for Germany to face up to its "dark" colonial past in Tanzania and said his country was open to returning artefacts looted during the era.
Germany on Tuesday announced plans to establish a memorial in Berlin to the Polish victims of the Nazis, almost 84 years after Adolf Hitler launched the invasion of Poland.
Workers began digging in central France on Wednesday for the remains of dozens of German soldiers said to have been executed by Resistance fighters during World War II.
An unidentified vandal defaced a memorial to the LGBT victims of the Nazis in central Berlin with homophobic flyers and attempted to set fire to it, police said Tuesday.
Around 13,000 people have been
told to temporarily leave their homes in the western German city of Düsseldorf after a Second World War-era US bomb was found, firefighters said Monday.
Language is constantly changing and adapting. For the German language, one of the most significant moments of change came 25 years ago with the introduction of the German spelling reform.
With celebrations of Gay Pride taking place across Germany this July, we look at the past and the future of rights for the LGBTQ+ community in Germany.
This week, 70 years ago, a million Germans rose up to protest the massive, systematic changes made to their lives, impacting their ability to move freely, to work for themselves and even to worship.
Inge Auerbacher fears for a future when Holocaust survivors like her can no longer bear witness. But advances in virtual reality and AI give her hope their stories will live on.
A former Nazi concentration camp guard who was sentenced to five years in jail last year for complicity in war crimes has died in Germany aged 102, a source close to the case told AFP on Wednesday.
Long overshadowed by World War II and the Holocaust, a colonial-era genocide committed by Germany in Namibia has been brought to the big screen, shining a light on the country's neglected crimes.
Germany's president on Wednesday sought pardon for his nation's World War II crimes in comments on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising anniversary in Poland's capital.
Britain's King Charles III on Friday commemorated German victims of World War II Allied air raids, a gesture carrying great significance for both countries.
The history of the British royal family is inextricably entwined with Germany, a heritage that will have pride of place during King Charles III's first state visit to the country beginning Wednesday.
