The Döner kebab is without doubt one of the staples of the German fast-food scene, with over 1000 Dönerläden (kebab shops) to choose from in the capital city alone. But how did the street-food sensation come to be the worldwide hit it is today?
Germany is home to some 46 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, encompassing millions of years of history. Here are five of our favourites, with an overview of what there is to enjoy.
Barbed wire and tunnelling beneath it to go and pick flowers outside his refugee camp in Denmark are what Jorg Baden remembers most clearly 75 years on from World War II.
Monday marks the 30th anniversary of the
removal of the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing between the communist East
and capitalist West Berlin during the Cold War.
While a global row rages over the controversial background of historical figures immortalised as statues, on Saturday a divisive new monument to Soviet leader Lenin will be unveiled in
Germany.
Epidemics and pandemics have plagued German territory - and the rest of the world - for thousands of years. Here's how they stack up to the coronavirus, writes history teacher Michael Stuchbery.
No-one on board the Hindenburg for its first flight on March 4th, 1936 could have imagined the tragedy that would befall the airship just a year after that maiden voyage.
Three citizens of former East Germany recount how they experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the joy of November 9th 1989 when the barriers opened, to the three decades of economic hardship and rebuilding that followed.
November 9th is 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here's how one of the first Berliners to cross the East German border remembers the historic time.
Artist Margaret Hunter's life changed forever when she moved to Berlin in 1985. Now her experiences of German reunification are being shown as part of events to mark 30 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Germany marks three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall this week, but a hint of a return of the Cold War and the rise of nationalism is dampening the mood.
Nearing the 30 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we explore how five films compare to the real East Germany and how east Germans feel about these portrayals of their former state.
It wasn't just a defeat, it was an utter annihilation: three entire legions of the Roman Army gone. A routine mission to pacify a revolt had turned into a bloodbath, deep in the forests of Germania - but how?
Millions of visitors nationwide are expected once again at Germany's Open Monument's Day, which spotlights the most striking monuments around the country.
58 years ago today, August 13th 1961, the first border fences were erected around the border of West Berlin, in what would quickly become the Berlin Wall. So what were the events leading up to 1961? How and why was the Wall built, even though "nobody had the intention" to do so?
In an age of uncertainty and upheaval, it pays to have strong leaders. Perhaps Germany could draw from history for inspiration, says Michael Stuchbery.
Though national stereotypes purport that Germans adore order and rules, Germany is not shy of protests and demonstrations. Here is a look at what sparked the protest culture of today.
A collision between a vintage sailing ship and a container vessel in Germany injured five people and sunk the wooden ship which had just been restored at a cost of €1.5 million ($1.7 million), police said.
Germany and witchcraft? Well, let's just say they both have quite the history. The lands that make up modern Germany were the scene of some of the bloodiest persecutions of 'witches’ from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
