Walking through the center of Aachen, Germany, the city feels as if it’s been around awhile. The narrow cobblestone streets ignore the existence of cars, and the imposing town hall could be a set for ...
Near the bend of a river in southern Germany, a team of archaeologists and volunteers gathered to excavate a 2,000-year-old fortress. Their finds — ranging from storage pits to a rare writing tool — ...
Deep inside a German cave, archaeologists have uncovered something extraordinary that challenges everything we thought we ...
At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.
IN THE fall of 1946 an American commission consisting of government officials, educators, and scientists toured Germany. (I have a particularly vivid memory of the striking personality of Reinhold ...