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

It was a first for modern Germany and a bruise ... “Friedrich Merz’s big day,” the lead headline read, “but no euphoria in Germany.” Jim Tankersley is the Berlin bureau chief for The ...

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

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May ...

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 ...

Since the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian education system has cranked the patriotic themes into overdrive seeking to mold the soldiers of tomorrow.

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

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to be sworn in as chancellor on Tuesday with a mission to revive the ...

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 ...

The UK will unite to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, with a spectacular display ... date in 1945 marked the official defeat of Nazi Germany, bringing World War 2 to an end in Europe after ...