It has always been a lovely building – four stories of limestone and intricate detail. What made it so wrong was that it represented a brief but ugly chapter in Cincinnati history. The Renaissance ...

Germany’s decision to facilitate Lenin’s return to Russia was one of the most consequential acts of political interference in modern history. Intended to weaken Russia during World War I, it directly ...

As a German studies major, you immerse yourself in all aspects of German history, culture, philosophy, politics, and language. Because the department is small, you work closely with your professors ...

My passion for modern German history emerged out of my childhood. Reared in Boston and Los Angeles in the 1970s, I grew up barely one generation removed from the Holocaust, and I met many Germans who ...

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 ...

As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz — a key part of a series of watershed World War II anniversaries this year — all eyes will be on Germany. Angela ...

Perched on a steep hilltop in southern Germany, the striking turrets of Hohenzollern Castle rise in contrast to the rolling countryside that surrounds them. The fortress is the ancestral seat of ...

“The howl of the cave man.” This is how a 1918 Los Angeles Times article described the music of Brahms and Bach. A year earlier the U.S. had declared war against Germany and waded into the tragedy of ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. A New History of German Literature actually delivers far more than its title suggests. It consists of some 200 ...

In the new mini-series, the German actor plays the former head of Deutsche Bank whose dramatic murder remains one of the country's great unsolved crimes. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief “The ...

BERLIN --The co-leader of the far-right nationalist Alternative for Germany party on Saturday dismissed the Nazi era as a "speck of bird poop" in German history, drawing swift condemnation from ...