Germans go to the polls on Sunday in a snap election called after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition. WHAT IS GERMANY'S HYBRID VOTING SYSTEM? Germany's reformed voting system ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

Regardless of the outcome, Sunday's German election marks a rejection of the centrist political establishment and a shift to ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

In “The Prosecutor,” Jack Fairweather tells the story of Fritz Bauer, the German jurist who helped find Eichmann in Argentina and brought Auschwitz guards to justice.

The conservative CDU/CSU alliance under Friedrich Merz is ahead in the polls, with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative rival of Angela Merkel, is on track to become the next chancellor, though the far-right AfD is ...

It was a short but sharply contestedelection campaign, in which one thing was clear: the desire for change. "You tried for three years to implement left-wing policies in Germany. You cannot continue ...

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a ...

The German word “Zeitwende” signifies a major change of some kind that alters the present course of events. Chancellor Scholz ...

The moment I saw my mother and brother heading toward the train, I realized that was it,” Naor told Yad Vashem, Israel’s ...