A bitter inheritance feud is plunging the Bismarck dynasty into scandal, exposing decades of grudges and tarnishing a once-revered legacy

It was a defining image of the Merkel years: the German chancellor leaning across a table at the G7 summit in 2018, looming over Donald Trump as the rest of the world’s leaders looked on. Angela Merkel, the photo seemed to indicate, was the adult in the room.

German police are investigating an election campaign flyer by a far-right party that looks like a plane ticket and calls for the deportation of “illegal immigrants.”

Germany's economy shrunk for a second consecutive year in 2024, continuing its struggle with internal and external challenges.

Friedrich Merz, the chancellor candidate for the conservative Christian Democratic Union, acknowledged the need for a “major effort” to revive the economy as his party pledges to return German growth to 2 percent over the next five years through changes to the welfare and tax systems.

The German economy shrank for the second straight year in 2024 as worried consumers held back on spending and Chinese competition ate into the country’s traditional exports of cars and industrial machinery.

Even the former Crown Prince’s son, young Prince Louis Ferdinand, later a popular figure in the US and postwar West Germany wrote, on the Day of Potsdam to one of the advisers of the automaker and antisemite Henry Ford why he had voted for the Nazis. One could go on, and Malinowski does, at length, but the point is clear.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Elon Musk’s support for the far-right in Europe is “completely unacceptable.”

Germany's cabinet has decided to authorise the army to shoot down suspicious drones seen near military sites or other critical infrastructure.

This cylindrical hotel in Germany comprises stand-alone tiny homes. It's the tiniest home I've ever stayed in, and it was full of space-saving hacks.