Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped in 2023 to their lowest levels since the 1950s, but Europe’s biggest economy is off track on its climate goals as most of the emission reductions were ...

Covert flow of information from BND enabled Konrad Adenauer to cement his hold on power, historians reveal Germany’s first democratically elected chancellor used the country’s foreign intelligence ...

Boasts a 1950 German travel folder: “Hamburg has everything.” To Germans from the shabby towns and the bombed-out cities, the statement seems true. Stork Club on the Elbe. The shops that line the ...

Germany, July 10, 1950: Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, head of the Army Chemical Command, poses for a photo as he visits EUCOM headquarters soon after his arrival in Germany. McAuliffe was on his way to ...

Rhein-Main Airbase, Germany, Aug. 10, 1950: EUCOM personnel and their dependents debark from the Pan American clipper that brought a record passenger load from New York City to Rhein-Main airport.

Research by historian Henry Leide reveals that the communist regime of the former German Democratic Republic, usually known as East Germany, purposefully turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed ...

“First we got the bomb and that was good/’Cause we love peace and motherhood/Then Russia got the bomb, but that’s OK/’Cause the balance of power’s maintained that way!/Who’s next?” So begins an ...

In 1950, a three-year-old elephant named Tuffi was forced to ride a public monorail in Wuppertal, Germany. The animal was loaded aboard as a promotion for the Althoff Circus. This ride was supposed to ...