Germany News News Germany » History: German scents exhibition combines 1,000 years of fragrances with art and history
An exhibition in Germany invites visitors to explore the world of scents through 81 fragrances across 37 galleries.
News Germany » History: How Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture kicked off a democratic crisis
Walking through Weimar, Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust seems inescapable. Stolpersteine — German for “stumbling blocks” — are placed outside the homes of people killed during the Shoah, ...
News Germany » History: Germany’s Reckoning: Facing the Holocaust and the Past
How did Germany confront the darkest chapter in its history? This video follows the nation’s long journey from denial to acknowledgment — from Allied denazification and the Nuremberg Trials to the ...
News Germany » History: Museum of German-Jewish History Opens in Berlin
BERLIN, Sept. 9 -- The Jewish Museum, which opened here tonight sheathed in metal and shaped like a lightning bolt piercing the cityscape, is an architectural sermon: In the city that Adolf Hitler ...
News Germany » History: Letter: Lessons from German history
Editor: Most Americans probably never heard of Martin Niemöller. Niemöller was a Lutheran pastor who was a citizen of Germany before, during, and after World War II. Initially he supported the ...
News Germany » History: German Character and History
IN THE fall of 1946 an American commission consisting of government officials, educators, and scientists toured Germany. (I have a particularly vivid memory of the striking personality of Reinhold ...
News Germany » History: Alternative History: Germany Declares Victory in 1918
Key Point: Despite ambitions of becoming a global colonial empire, Germany was still a Continental power in 1914. If it won the war, it would be through the immense power of its army, not its navy.
News Germany » History: German government pledges record $1B in funding for Holocaust survivor home care
The German government has agreed to allocate $1.08 billion in funds for home care for survivors for 2026, marking the largest budget for home care in its history of Holocaust reparations, reflecting ...
News Germany » History: Germany to give more than $1 billion for Holocaust survivors' home care in 2026
BERLIN -- The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said Wednesday that Germany has agreed to extend another $1.076 billion (923.9 million euros) for ...
News Germany » History: Germany’s far right is at war over its own defense policy
The German far right wants to defend the homeland. It just can’t say how — or against whom. Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is moving to overhaul Germany’s defense posture in response to the ...