Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court, once a powerful institution of political compromise and public trust, may be drawn increasingly into the country’s growing political polarisation. A possible AfD ban would put its authority
On New Year’s Eve 1989, as the Berlin Wall had fallen and reunification was becoming imaginable, photographer Maurice Weiß of the Ostkreuz agency captured a moment of extraordinary optimism at the Brandenburg
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An August 1931 encounter in Rome left Heinrich Brüning, Germany’s chancellor, visibly dispirited. According to Erwin Planck, an Oberregierungsrat in the Reich Chancellery, the impression made on Brüning by Benito Mussolini was
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Germany is preparing for a significant overhaul of the laws governing its domestic and foreign intelligence services, with the federal cabinet due to consider the proposed reforms on Wednesday. The changes are
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Germany’s trade deficit with China widened significantly in the first half of 2026, even as China remained the country’s largest overall trading partner, according to preliminary data from state-run agency Germany Trade
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After decades of living with an unexplained anxiety disorder, German journalist Andreas Bönte uncovered a hidden family history linking his grandfather to Nazi crimes and suicide. His investigation traces how silence, authoritarian
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For many children, the end of summer marks a familiar return to classrooms, friends, and routines. For some girls, however, the school year never begins again. Instead, a family holiday becomes a
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Nearly eight decades after the end of the Second World War, millions of pages of surviving personnel records from Nazi Germany’s SA and SS have entered a new phase of public accessibility
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The Schutzstaffel (SS) evolved from a relatively small Nazi paramilitary unit into the central institution behind the Third Reich’s racial policies and mass violence, according to historian Bastian Hein in an interview
More A reform proposal buried near the bottom of the German government’s “Programme for Growth and Employment” has triggered a major debate over the future of transparency in public administration. Listed as point
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For years, the question remained unanswered: who would paint Angela Merkel’s official portrait? While generations of German chancellors had their place in the gallery of former leaders, the image of Germany’s first
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Germany’s defense industry is moving swiftly to fill the void left by the collapse of one of Europe’s most ambitious military projects, with an alliance of major aerospace and defense companies proposing
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In her first official visit to China as Germany’s economics minister, Katherina Reiche steps into a world that is both familiar and disorienting for Europe’s industrial powerhouse. As reported by Die Ziet,
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A series of coordinated police raids across multiple cities in western Germany has brought renewed attention to the country’s evolving far-right extremist landscape, particularly the growing role of youth-led neo-Nazi groups that
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The renewed threat of a US troop withdrawal from Germany has stirred political anxiety on both sides of the Atlantic, but as reported by Die Ziet, the reality behind the rhetoric is
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Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has issued a stark warning that the United States is being “humiliated” by Iran in a conflict that he says lacks a coherent strategy and risks spiraling into
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