One of Aesop's fables, "The Wolf and the Lamb,” goes something like this, as per Wikipedia: A wolf comes upon a lamb while both are drinking from a stream, and in order to justify taking its life, it ...

Hitler occupied Bohemia and Moravia. A week later he secured the return of Memel from Lithuania to Germany. Meanwhile, in October 1938, Hitler had begun pressuring Poland to turn over the city of ...

The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

The party has always been more popular in German areas that were once under ... the country was split into four zones of occupation that were controlled by the UK, US, France and the Soviet ...

Both the euro and German equity markets are likely to be ... struggling with surging energy prices due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, government spending constraints led to shrinking ...

Merz has advocated strongly for backing Ukraine as it fights Russia’s full-scale invasion – even calling for Berlin to provide German-made Tauris missiles, something the Scholz government has ...

In German public broadcaster ARD's Berliner Runde post-election debate on Sunday night, all main candidates gathered to discuss key takeaways. Merz reaffirmed his stance against forming a ...

If Merz wants to get rid of the infamous debt brake in order to pump money into the German army, he will need a two-thirds majority of votes in the Bundestag. The Greens say they are prepared to ...

But that all paled next to the historic “watershed” speech, a day after the Russian invasion in 2022. In it, Scholz announced a €100 billion investment fund for the German army and taboo ...