Nineteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, its historical shadow is fading fast for Germany's youth – many of whom do not even know who built it.
Nostalgic Germans on Thursday night bade a fond farewell to Tempelhof, the fabled hub of the Berlin Airlift, as it closed to make way for a major new airport to serve the reunified capital.
A leading German economist who sparked controversy on Monday by comparing criticism of business leaders with stigmatization of Jews during the financial crisis of the 1930s has apologized for his remarks.
More than 2,100 bombs from World War II have been found on the outskirts of Köthen during a routine building site review, police in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt reported on Wednesday.
General Francisco Franco's Nationalist forces reportedly used Enigma machines, the device Germany's Nazis used to encrypt top-secret messages during World War II, in their battle against Republicans during Spain's civil war.
Cologne was one of the Roman Empire’s outermost cities, and now history buffs can travel to the lengths of their imaginations with a new 3-D model of how the city looked 2,000 years ago.
The city of Leipzig on Thursday will commemorate the start of the peaceful protests in East Germany in the autumn of 1989 that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Speaking during celebrations to mark German Unity Day on Friday, Chancellor Angela Merkel said young people in Germany needed to learn more about their country’s Communist past.
More than a half-century after Nazis looted artwork from European Jews, an unprecedented Berlin exhibition tells both sides of the story: how property was seized and efforts, at times fruitless, were made to have it restored.
A four-metre long (12-foot) World War II-era torpedo was found on the Timmendorf beach on the Baltic Sea coast early on Wednesday morning, keeping the bomb squad busy until midday.
A 90-year-old German, sentenced in Italy in absentia to life in prison for a Nazi war crime, pleaded innocent Monday at the start of a trial in Germany in one of the last cases of its kind.
The skeletons of more than 2,000 people buried around a destroyed medieval church lay under central Berlin for decades without residents' knowledge, archaeologists announced this week.
The University of Leipzig in the eastern German state of Saxony has decided to reinstall a controversial monument to socialist philosopher Karl Marx after months of rancorous debate.
As the Beijing Olympics start, small ceremonies in Berlin on Friday will remember the fate of two athletes persecuted under the Nazis, one of whom survived a concentration camp to go on to train Indian athletes.
A hobby historian says he's discovered that Posh Spice, also known as Victoria Beckham, is a descendant of a German communist from Heilbronn who was close to Karl Marx.
A nuclear-proof bunker built during the Cold War for East German leader Erich Honecker opens to the public Saturday, but only for three months before it is likely sealed forever.
A group of international scientists at the DESY physics research centre in Hamburg has uncovered a painting underneath another artwork by Vincent van Gogh using special light technology.
Archaeologists have begun to unlock the mystery of a Bronze Age site in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt being compared to England's Stonehenge - except it's made of wood instead of rock.
Old T-55 Soviet tanks still rumble through the eastern German countryside in a cloud of dust and exhaust fumes. But they pose no threat to the world order as we know it, writes AFP's Arnaud Bouvier.
Lost scenes from German-Austrian director Fritz Lang's legendary silent film "Metropolis" have been discovered in Argentina, German weekly newspaper <i>Die Zeit</i> reported on Wednesday.
US, British and French veterans joined German leaders on Thursday to mark the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, a colossal operation to rescue the western sector of the city from a Soviet blockade.
On the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, <b>Steve Kettmann</b> speaks with Andrei Cherny, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Candy-Bombers-Untold-Airlift-Americas/dp/0399154965/ref=pd_ts_b_10?ie=UTF8&s=books" target="_blank"><b>The Candy Bombers</b></a>. The former speechwriter for Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry hopes his new book will force Americans to look at current US foreign policy through the prism of the unique humanitarian effort that began June 26, 1948.
