Democracies can fail. Current events have raised the question of how stable or fragile democratic structures are, and whether ...

An agreement has been reached regarding property confiscated from the Hohenzollern family: Items currently displayed in ...

Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.

When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation’s currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that ...

Like the Trump-supporting Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, the perpetrators of the Kapp Putsch escaped punishment and accountability.

In completing a circular, 17-day tour of Germany recently, it was impossible not to observe the meticulous beauty of the ...

The excerpt that has been published has been taken from the opening pages. But this book is truly worth reading.

From The Experiment to Downfall and more, here is our ranking of the best German movies of all time. How many of these have ...

Not only Great Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark or Prussia have a Royal past. Bavaria was a monarchy, too. "Gott mit dir, du Land der Bayern, deutsche Erde, Vaterland!" are the ...

At gigantic open-air concerts in Berlin, Frankfurt and Gelsenkirchen, Germany, the 75-year-old rock star from New Jersey has interspersed short but poignant political speeches to describe the dangers ...

Watch in this video as Jinkx Monsoon performs Kurt Schwabach and Mischa Spoliansky’s 'The Lavender Song”—a German cabaret ...

By contrast, the United States in 2025 has until now had a strong democratic tradition, stable institutions and a military ...