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The Ghosts of Christmas Past

Ho-Ho Hohenzollerns – How the Kaiser spent Christmas - Part II

On the Magdeburg Christmas market attack

Ho-Ho Hohenzollerns – How the Kaiser spent Christmas

What's left of Christianity

Ze Best German History Books of 2024

Brain rot from doom-scrolling? Try writing letters like Frederick the Great

One France and Two Germanys

Nobody does Christmas like Germany

Angela Merkel: A Life of No Regrets

Shakespeare is German

Reading Merkel

Schweinehund! How pigs bring beauty to the German language

Bavarians: They Are Who They Are

35 Years Down: What Remains of the Berlin Wall?

Why hasn’t German cuisine caught on?

The Great Disruptor

Stalinist Utopia

East Prussia & Co.

What's a continental breakfast?

Class Matters

A dark day for England?

Would Hitler's Rhetoric Work Today?

When countries die...

A Date with Caspar David Friedrich

The Art of Celebrating German Unity Day

What might life in Britain have been like under Nazi occupation? Look to the Channel Islands

The day I met Keith. Or: Can anyone tackle homelessness?

Doing things the Norway

Breaking Through with Katalin Karikó

No peace beyond the wall - Belfast isn't Berlin

Is German military history verboten?

Ode to a Post-War Berlin classic

Thuringia was Hitler's stronghold, now it's the AfD's. That doesn't mean it's 1924.

Inside an AfD Stronghold

The Unknown Warrior with John Nichol

The Unknown Warrior

Freedom seems to be the hardest word

Green Tractors, Red Beer and Brown Coal

Bathing Kultur: Why everyone could do with a lake in their life

German Comforts: Kaffee und Kuchen

On German Men in Uniform

Somewhere North of Berlin

Berlin's Cold War of Rock

East German by Choice

The Loneliest Job in the World?

How East German is Angela Merkel?

Magnificent Rebels with Andrea Wulf

We need to talk about Hitler

Second World Problems

Where have all the Prussians gone?

How Tyrants Fall with Marcel Dirsus

The Future of Holocaust History

Milk, Honey, Herbs and Water: The Weird and Wonderful World of German Healing

Ha Ha Very Funny - A German's View of British Humour

The dark side of German football

How to spend a very German weekend in Ireland: Just drop the r-word

Divided Germany... again

Pickled Pasts

Inside the most godless place on earth

What I saw on election day in Thuringia

The North of East Germany

German Borderlines

The Awkward Business of Celebrating German Democracy

The Battle for the Heart of Berlin

The Holocaust in Hungary

A German in Budapest. Part I

The Spy Who Came in from the East

Poor but sexy: Leipzig is the place to be

Bantering with Stalin: the outrageous diplomacy that won the war

Berlin is still divided

Made in East Germany with Sabine Rennefanz

We need to talk

Bayern's loss is Germany's gain

The Wurst Article

The German capital that never was

The Red Terror that Continues to Haunt Germany

The Kaiser Who Came to Tea

Interview: Doing German history in Britain

Golden Scars and Broken Memories

Final Verdict: Late justice for Nazi crimes? With Tobias Buck

Farewell to My Father

The Magic of Books

Inside East Germany's Sex Shops

Hanging out with Bismarck

The splinters of history that get under my skin

Hitler's trial for high treason and the death of German democracy

Inside Berlin's Hotel Adlon

Paradise in Hell: Inside the life of the commandant of Auschwitz

From Hitler to Honecker: The Saxon State Orchestra's astonishing postwar story

Building back better? Bombed Dresden will never be the same again

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Survived Hitler and Stalin

Tea with a Baron - German thoughts on the House of Lords

German Cars with James May

What do the children of dictatorships know about democracy?

The sins of the Nazis are visited upon their children

How the "hell camp" of Ohrdruf changed Eisenhower's view of the Second World War - and ours

Girls, drugs, tanks and sports cars: Elvis in Germany

France and Germany must remember their history: the good, the bad and the ugly

Inside the Stasi HQ

The lonely struggle of Erwin Kostedde

Are people getting bored of Holocaust movies?

The Bismarck Diet

Meet East Germany's hippies