The last surviving member of the White Rose resistance movement which distributed leaflets in Germany during World War II urging people to stand up against Nazi tyranny, has died, the group's historical foundation said Thursday.
The German parliament on Friday dedicated its annual Holocaust commemorations for the first time to people killed for their sexual or gender identity, and acknowledged decades of post-war persecution.
A 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary has
filed an appeal against her conviction of complicity in the murder of more
than 10,000 people, a German court said Wednesday.
Germany handed back more than 20 looted artefacts to Nigeria on Tuesday, saying it was to "right a wrong" more than 100 years after British colonial troops stole them.
A Jewish heirloom at the centre of one of the
most searing images of the Nazis' rise has returned to Germany, as political
leaders pledged on Monday to combat a resurgence of anti-Semitism.
A self-portrait by expressionist artist Max Beckmann smashed the record price for a painting sold at auction in Germany, when it was put before buyers in Berlin on Thursday.
On our Germany in Focus podcast, The Local interviewed author and historian Katja Hoyer on her new book on how East Germans lived, and what the fall of the Berlin Wall meant to them.
KFC has been forced to apologise after sending a notification to German customers encouraging them to commemorate the Kristallnacht anti-Jewish pogrom with fried chicken and cheese.
The role of gay people in bringing down communist East Germany from within is getting fresh attention three decades
on, at a time when sexual liberation is still a battleground.
Germany and Israel on Wednesday paid posthumous
tribute to two married couples who rescued Berlin Jews from the Nazis, at an emotional ceremony attended by four generations of the families' descendants
German lawmakers on Wednesday observed a minute's silence in honour of the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who played a decisive role in the reunification of Germany in 1990.
Klaus Langhoff experienced World War II as a child, and found memories of the war flooding back when he went to Munich in 1972 as a handballer captaining East Germany at the Olympics.
Israel and Germany's presidents will jointly commemorate the 1972 Munich Olympics attack that left 11 Israeli athletes dead, after a last-minute compensation deal averted a feared boycott by bereaved relatives.
The German parliament will for the first time next year commemorate victims of the Nazi regime, who were persecuted and killed for their sexual or gender identity, the Bundestag president said Friday.
A 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard on Monday once again denied being complicit in war crimes during the Holocaust as his trial drew to a close in Germany.
Entirely encased by Swiss territory, this unique little German town could just be one of the quirkiest holiday destinations around. Here's how it ended up like this - and why you should plan to pay it a visit.
For many years, the residents of the leafy town of Cochem in the German Rhineland went about their daily business with no idea they were living on a gold mine.
In what was expected to be one of the last addresses by a Holocaust survivor to the German parliament, Inge Auerbacher appealed Thursday to keep alive the victims' memory.
Curators combing through a vast historic archive of Freemasonry in Europe amassed by the Nazis in their wartime anti-Masonic purge say they believe there are still secrets to be unearthed.
A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who absconded before her trial was set to begin is due to appear in court in Germany on Tuesday.
Lawyer Thomas Walther, 78, gets prickly when he hears criticism of German courts putting elderly surviving Nazis - many over
90 years old now - on trial.
The US and German Foreign Secretaries gathered in Berlin on Thursday to announce a new initiative to tackle anti-Semitic hate and conspiracy theories online.
“The heart of democracy beats here, or it does not beat at all”: Germany’s Reichstag is known today as one of the most iconic parts of the German capital’s cityscape. But why is the building so important, and how did it become the symbol of civil liberty it is today?
From politics to religion, from wars to literature, Germany's history is rich and diverse. See how good your knowledge of German historical dates is with our quiz.
