Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...

Friedrich Merz’s halting path to the chancellor’s office inflamed his challenges at home and abroad, including a threat from ...

In Berlin, Friedrich Merz was elected Germany’s chancellor, but not without a surprising setback. For the first time in Germany’s modern history, he lost the parliament’s initial vote and needed a ...

Across Europe, in forests, fields and beneath old farmland, the remains of German soldiers are still being found, exhumed and ...

Merz is now facing a myriad of challenges, including keeping his coalition government united and boosting Germany's ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...

A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 years after World War II ...

As we celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day this week, events will be held ... to an end in Europe after six long years when Nazi Germany was defeated. Parties and events will be held thoughout ...

Almost all the rivers in the north and center of Europe froze. Even the hot springs of Aachen in modern-day Germany iced up. Heavily laden wagons trundled across the lakes of Switzerland ...

Don’t miss The former east hosts some of modern-day Germany’s most underrated tourist attractions. East Berlin – the likes of Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, and Friedrichshain – is a hub of ...

Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th ...