A crucial requirement for a dictatorship to take hold is widespread acquiescence. That is being put to test as the United ...

My grandfather was a Nazi. The U.S. may have absolved him as a fellow traveler, but I'm still left to wrestle with ...

One of the most dramatic, and terrifying, demonstration of the intolerance of ideas in recent times was the Nazi book burnings of the 1930s, when ceremonial bonfires of books representing ...

A spring day in Mannheim was shattered today when, just after noon, a car ploughed at speed into a pedestrianised area of the southwest German city. There was initially a sense of déjà vu ...

Spring is just around the corner. As the days get longer, you’ll want to spend those extra hours of sunlight with a good book. This month’s must-reads include astronaut and activist Amanda ...

I've come to Wismar to trace one shadow of Germany's dark past – the legacy of my German Jewish grandfather, Berthold Levi, who left behind a secret love child when he escaped Nazi Germany in 1937.

The mind-bending Apple TV+ series "Severance" sparks questions – lots of them! – about what's going on at Lumon Industries, the mysteriously oppressive workplace that offers to "sever" the ...

A German court has convicted and sentenced two Afghan men to years in prison for planning to attack the Swedish parliament to revenge Quran burnings in the country. They were found guilty of ...

A German court has sentenced two Afghan men to prison for planning an attack on the Swedish parliament in response to Quran burnings in the country. They were found guilty of supporting Islamic State ...

A book festival is a place where people who are interested in serious issues, great literature and the human condition in general come together to discuss, debate and disagree agreeably.

Novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Karen Russell, nonfiction by Ezra Klein, new “Hunger Games” and “Wicked” prequels and more. Credit...The New York Times Supported by It’s been ...

But he is already acting as the future German chancellor. Three days after his victory, the Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz dined with President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Wednesday ...