From Housemaid to Camp Guard
How did ordinary people end up doing evil things?
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German history, politics and culture
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The Strange Afterlife of the Berlin Wall
65 years on, there are still those who defend the GDR’s border regime
Goodbye, East Berlin?
An iconic former leisure palace might be the next GDR landmark to vanish
The AfD on the Threshold of Power
Explainer: Why all eyes are on Saxony-Anhalt
What could a German Portrait Gallery look like?
Heads and Headaches of a Nation
Berlin 1936: When Owens Met Long
Rivals, friends, Olympic legends. But how much of their story is true?
Did Dadaists invent Brainrot?
On the art of nonsense a century before TikTok
Austria has finally decided the fate of Hitler's birthplace...
...but can architecture ever escape the burden of memory?
The Other Faces of Nuremberg
A new book shines a light on the forgotten architects of justice
Poor West Germany
Or: A Tale of Two Cities
Coal, Steel, Beer and Football: Notes from Dortmund
Or: Adventures in the Ruhr
Man and Myth: What was Bismarck really like?
The Iron Chancellor as others saw him