Maggie Smith returns to the London stage after a 12-year absence in 'A German Life,' Christopher Hampton's single-character drama about a former secretary to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

Brunhilde Pomsel's life spanned the twentieth century. She struggled to make ends meet as a secretary in Berlin during the 1930s, her many employers including a Jewish insurance broker, the German ...

“A German Life” is likely to be the last new movie of its kind: a documentary that presents contemporary testimony from someone who witnessed the inner workings of the Nazi high command. The movie is ...

Life expectancy in Germany rebounded in 2023 for both men and women, after declining during the coronavirus pandemic, according to figures from Germany's Federal Statistical Office released on ...

Dame Maggie Smith will star in the upcoming film adaptation of "A German Life," a one-woman play from "Dangerous Liaisons" and "Atonement" screenwriter/playwright ...

In the final days of World War II, Brunhilde Pomsel was among the party faithful holed up in the Führerbunker. Even at 103, her age when she was interviewed for the potent documentary “A German Life,” ...

Henry Bockrath and his wife, Elizabeth, offer a unique glimpse into the lives of German immigrants who brought their culture, values, faith, language and architecture to Missouri, then adopted more ...

How helpful are warnings from history? Two years ago, in February 2017, Amazon briefly sold out its entire stock of Hannah Arendt’s 500-page treatise, “The Origins of Totalitarianism.” In it, the ...

CBSNews.com's Christine Lagorio is filing weekly dispatches from Berlin while writing for the Financial Times Deutschland as part of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program. You will get a basic lesson ...