Imagine a world where soccer cleats were also political tools. Stadiums were battlegrounds for Cold War ideologies. Young athletes like Lutz Eigendorf found themselves caught in East Germany’s ...

A few months ago, it seemed Germany’s ego couldn’t get any bigger. The country’s joblessness rate had fallen to its lowest levels since German reunification in 1990, and its small Mittelstand ...

Lufthansa turns 100 in 2026, marking a century of aviation history, reflection, and renewal. From its 1926 founding to its modern global role, the airline is celebrating with special aircraft liveries ...

Economically troubled Germany just held elections and will soon have a new government. The conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) is likely to create a coalition with ...

Germany is coming off an emotional Olympic Games qualifier, as well as some positive moments for the nation, including a pre-tournament win against Switzerland. Last year Germany took Switzerland to ...

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany—For 20 years, Stefan Diete, a lab chemist at an oil refinery in this western Germany town, was a member of a far-left party with Communist roots. In next month’s election, he ...

The poisonous icons emerged, like viral online memes, in the late Middle Ages, carved onto church walls and choir stalls. Each showed Jews suckling, or sometimes having sex with, a pig. The theologian ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz took office last year promising an unprecedented fiscal splurge that would revive growth in ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in the German Parliament, ending the unpopular three-party coalition government he has led since 2021. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from Berlin ...

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s tricky in a country where the Nazi era casts a long shadow. By Christopher ...