After World War II, the United States and its allies occupied West Germany and helped its post-Nazi leaders build a successful democracy out of the ruins of fascism.

The German military is investigating why the first verse of the German national song - with the words "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles..." ("Germany, Germany above all...") - was played at a ...

The Munich Agreement, signed in September 1938, permitted Hitler to annex Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace. Sudetenland was a border region of Czechoslovakia with a significant ...

Sleek, soft-spoken Chancellor Franz von Papen, whose most violent gesture is frequently to take off and twirl his eyeglasses, thunderstruck the world last week by a series of provocative acts, all ...

POTSDAM, March 21, 1933 (UP) - With a threat to "destroy all those seeking to damage our people," Chancellor Adolf Hitler opened a session of the Reichstag today in an atmosphere of Imperial Germany.

It has been many years since I read Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America.” As I recall, it was set in the late 1930s and early 1940s and suggested that the presidential candidacy of Charles A.

Three months before Germany’s early federal election, pressure is growing within the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) to choose Defence Minister Boris Pistorius as the party’s lead candidate ...

Try whistling a few bars of the Star-Spangled Banner in downtown Kabul if you want to find out how effective a national anthem is at making enemies. A less deadly outbreak of red-flag-waving hymnody ...