Sanderling, by acclaimed author and translator Anne Weber, is an exceptional book about coming to terms with German history.

In July 1944 it became evident it was only a matter of time until Nazi Germany would be defeated. The Allied forces had ...

France entered the Franco Prussian War confident and unprepared. Prussia mobilized faster coordinated better and used diplomacy to isolate France while making it look like the aggressor. After early ...

The domains of the Habsburgs formed a politcal and cultural patchwork that would come under increasing strain.

A journey into Hitler’s hidden forest headquarters in Poland, where key World War II campaigns were directed and the legacy ...

Not yet recognizing the extent of the defeat all along the front, Hitler and his generals saw their reverses merely as a temporary halt in German offensive operations. The reality was just beginning ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a place of, in their words, 'unreality.' ...

Sometimes all it takes to make a trip unforgettable are storied hotels with deep local roots in just the right places. As in Berlin and Munich.

Occasionally a white man emerges to advocate for the advancement of the oppressed while others in power are reluctant. Judge ...

Heinrich Campendonk, full name Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk, was a German artist known for his work in decorative art, printmaking, and stained-glass. He was associated with the Der Blaue Reiter ...