Germany

Joe O’Byrne: ‘We’re having the reactivation of the type of politics that we saw in the early 1930s’

His debut novel, The Red Orchestra in Blue, about two real-life heroes of Nazi Germany, contains warnings about ‘the perils of where we’re heading’

Four former VW executives found guilty in ‘Dieselgate’ case

Decade-old Volkswagen scandal involved the manipulation of diesel emissions from VW vehicles

Fiction in translation: The Deserters traverses 20th century and brims with interesting ideas

Works by Mathias Enard, Georgi Gospodinov, Gaëlle Bélem, Elisa Levi and Solvej Balle

Stabbing attack at Hamburg train station leaves 17 injured

Suspect arrested after four people suffered life-threatening injuries, according to authorities

Trump’s slapdown diplomacy reduces Oval Office meetings to spectator sport

Events are undermining America’s influence in the world, warn foreign policy experts

Nord Stream saga shows German leaders’ magical thinking and economical approach to the truth

German media investigation raises questions about Angela Merkel’s role in Nord Stream 2 project

Merz vows to defend Nato territory as German troops deploy in Lithuania

Chancellor tells Baltic states of Germany’s soft stance on Putin: ‘I assure you, that time is over’

Germany increases border checks: Alexander Dobrindt oversees radical policy shift

Federal interior minister is sheriff in mainstream political Germany’s last-chance saloon

Why has the German economy gone from Europe’s engine to its anchor?

Miscalculations on security, exports and energy have created a storm in Europe’s largest economy

My late mother and I talked enough for two lifetimes on Skype. I’ll miss it now it’s shut down

Before Zoom, Teams and WhatsApp, Skype gave me the freedom to stay connected to my parents as I moved around the world

Margot Friedländer’s family were murdered in Auschwitz. She returned to Berlin at 88 with a message

Worldview: She would travel to schools to tell children there was “no Christian, Jewish or Muslim blood, just human blood. People killed millions of people because they didn’t see their victims as people”

Riesling, muscadet, sherry: Time to give these unloved wines a second chance

These wines may have fallen out of favour but there are great versions that deserve revisiting

Merz vows to build the strongest army in Europe and revitalise Germany’s fortunes

Armed forces will get ‘all the financial resources required’, new chancellor tells German parliament

Self-styled ‘King of Germany’ arrested and his far-right group banned

Kingdom of Germany ‘underpins supposed claim to power with anti-Semitic conspiracy narratives’, warns interior minister

Germany’s new leadership may be having second thoughts about supporting Netanyahu’s war

Amid the deteriorating situation in Gaza, pro-Israel chancellor Friedrich Merz is learning a hard lesson in Middle East realpolitik

Irish band The Murder Capital has German show cancelled over Palestinian flag

Singer says use of flag ‘isn’t just a political statement, it’s a humanitarian statement’

‘Never again war’: Pope Leo interrupts St Peter’s Square revelry with pleas for peace in Ukraine and Gaza

Visitors praise ‘humble, simple and very welcoming man’

German intelligence service report on AfD faces claims of political interference

Extremist designation of Alternative for Germany paused pending court decision

German asylum border controls ‘legally sound’, new chancellor says

Defence challenge an ‘exceptional’ circumstance where Germany may support EU members taking on common debt – Merz

German president tackles uncomfortable statistic: every second German favours ‘drawing a line’ under Nazi past

Survey last year found just one in five Germans know how many Poles were killed during the Nazi wartime occupation

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