A bomb dropped by the US Air Force on Leipzig during World War II was blown up on Thursday morning. It was discovered on Wednesday night near the east German city’s main train station and the explosion was captured in these dramatic pictures.
The German government rejected on Wednesday a call by two newspapers to remove Russian tanks from a World War II memorial in central Berlin in protest against spiralling tensions in Ukraine.
Germany on Wednesday rejected a fresh Nazi-era reparation claim by a Greek city's Jewish community but offered the group cooperation on future projects.
UPDATE: Nazi scientists worked on ways to use malaria-carrying mosquitoes as a weapon, according to researchers. Until now, experts have disputed whether Germany was working on biological warfare during World War II.
The photos of a German soldier who took his camera to the front in World War One have been published for the first time, giving the rarest of glimpses into military life 100 years ago.
Bavaria signalled on Wednesday it would not seek to prevent the publication of an annotated version of Adolf Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf" in an apparent about-face.
UPDATE The World War II bomb which exploded western Germany on Friday afternoon, killing one and injuring 13 people was probably a British aerial mine, experts said on Monday.
Thieves raided several houses in Dortmund when 20,000 people were evacuated while bomb disposal experts defused a World War II bomb on Sunday. They took €8,000 worth of goods, police said.
The US embassy in Berlin commemorated the only American civilian to be executed by the Nazi government on Friday. Until recently the life, and death, of resistance fighter Mildred Fish-Harnack had gone unnoticed.
The presidents of Germany and France on Wednesday joined hands with a survivor of the Nazis' worst atrocity on French soil in a historic moment of reconciliation.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin created diplomatic chaos on Friday over whether they would go to an exhibition of disputed treasures in St Petersburg together.
German authorities arrested Monday a 93-year-old alleged former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz on charges of complicity in the mass murder of prisoners. He claims he was only a cook.
French film-maker and producer Claude Lanzmann, renowned for his groundbreaking 1985 documentary on the Holocaust "Shoah", will accept a lifetime achievement award at the 63rd Berlin film festival Thursday.
25,000 people have lost their usual weekend lie-in after they were evacuated from their homes on Sunday morning in Hannover in one of the biggest bomb disposal operations in the city's history.
The city of Duisburg came to a standstill on Tuesday night when the city was evacuated in order to safely detonate a half-tonne World War II bomb. Thousands of residents spent over seven hours in emergency shelters.
The Nazi past of a post-war lobbying body for Germans driven from Eastern Europe after 1945 has finally been acknowledged by its current leadership, after a revised historical study spelled it out in no uncertain terms.
Germany and the Jewish Claims Conference signed a new accord Thursday to help elderly Holocaust survivors who had never received compensation, most of them living in eastern Europe.
A US military history magazine has published a controversial list of the "top ten German generals," including three who fought under Adolf Hitler, causing some consternation in Germany.
A German ban of an animal cruelty campaign which set images of abused animals next to photographs of people in Holocaust death camps, has been upheld unanimously by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
A 106-year-old German Jewish woman who fled the Nazis and has been living in Britain for more than 70 years has finally been granted British citizenship – the oldest person ever to receive it.
A new initiative by German states will attempt to make the federal government pay for the disposal of thousands of tonnes of World War II allied bombs and weapons, an expensive and dangerous job currently financed by local authorities.
Thousands of residents were evacuated early on Friday morning after an unexploded US bomb was discovered in Potsdam, eastern Germany - the latest of a series of recent World War II bomb finds.
German President Joachim Gauck paid tribute on Wednesday to the Czech victims of a 1942 Nazi massacre that razed a village near Prague in retaliation for the assassination of a senior Nazi.
A German court said Monday it was scrapping a probe into 17 former Nazi SS soldiers, eight of whom are still alive, for their alleged part in the wartime massacre of 560 citizens in an Italian village.
