Berlin's "anti-fascist protection barrier" was installed by East Germany's Soviet-backed left-wing government in the summer of 1961, ostensibly to prevent Western spies from entering East Berlin.

But then came what nobody saw coming — at ... They are not going to Berlin; not to watch Germany — for now, though, nobody seems to care too much. The football was good enough.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz is about to make history with his vow to create the 'strongest conventional army in Europe,' writes Ian Bremmer.

Less than a year before the end of World War II, then US Secretary ... and insecure Germany as a cruel prescription for ...

Salient fact about Germany then and now remains that she has few natural resources except her people. In important raw materials Germany has an exportable surplus of only two things: coal and ...

Germany now faces turmoil at a time of broader uncertainty ... Germany’s last snap election was in 2005. They were called by then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who subsequently lost to Merkel.