Berliners line up to pay their respects at one of the city's Soviet World War II memorials. May 8, 2025. (Dave Braneck/Courthouse News) BERLIN (CN) — The horrifying history of World War II doesn’t ...

A painting of German revolutionaries marching on Berlin in March of 1848. Exiled revolutionaries known as "the 48ers" would go on to to settle in in Milwaukee. Listener Rick Fuhry was researching his ...

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 ...

He made significant contributions to the study of the German labor movement and working-class culture and is remembered as ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Except “none of that is true,” writes Jonathan Wiesen, Ph.D., professor and past chair of UAB’s Department of History in “Nazi Germany: Society, Culture and Politics,” a new book from Bloomsbury Press ...

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Olaf Scholz (left) of the German Social Democratic Party and Alice Weidel of the fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party shake hands on Sunday, February 16, before they take part in a TV ...