I raise my glass to General Friedrich Paulus and his valiant 6th Army. All hail our ineluctable victory in the Battle of Stalingrad!” One would normally think of such barbarism as accompanying a ...

French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...

Friedrich Merz has affirmed, however, that would not happen while he is German Chancellor. This article was originally written in German. While you're here: Every Tuesday, DW editors round up what ...

Behind "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature" is the tale of German Romanticism in the Age of Napoleon. Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea (1808-1810). Photo: Andres Kilger. Courtesy of ...

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

German Francesco Friedrich won a record-extending 16th men’s bobsled world title, while Laura Nolte led a German medals sweep of the two-woman event to end the World Championships in Lake Placid, New ...

CDU leader Friedrich Merz has revealed plans for a new €500 billion special fund aimed at boosting infrastructure and defence spending. Just over a week after his victory in the federal ...

JAKARTA: The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is still waiting for a Singaporean court to finish an ongoing legal process that implicates businessman and graft suspect Paulus Tannos (pic ...

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has just transformed his country with a stroke of commendable boldness.

The early signs are unexpectedly promising. The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats at home, a ...

CDU leader Friedrich Merz, who is likely to be Germany's next chancellor, has labelled the response to Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Donald Trump and JD Vance as a "manufactured escalation". Members of ...