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Notes from a Journey East

The Geist of Christmas

Winter on Rügen

In Search of Pomerania

The Wisdom of Schnitzel

Germany’s Israel Dilemma

A British-German Feast

Has the class struggle returned?

What can we learn from Hitler's blood?

Workers, Students and Socialism

An East German in the City of Archbishops

From Bismarck's Reich Hounds to Kohl's Pig Stomachs

German Women in Uniform

An Acquired Taste: Germany's Favourite Crisps

"Liberation? Strange word."

They would have killed Kafka

The German Godfather of Horror

Josef Mengele: Truth and Fiction

Can you produce art in a dictatorship?

On Germany's immigration debate

How humour and decency challenged autocracy

Weimar - Germany in a Nutshell

The Nazi dilemma facing German actors isn't going anywhere

The modern methods of scholarship that helped identify a Nazi killer

History and the Manchester synagogue attack

From Hitler's horses to Lenin's head

Could Frederick the Great have prevented the Great War?

In Search of Prussian Berlin

Who wants to live in a socialist prefab?

Should Germany pay reparations to Poland for WWII?

How will Guernsey remember its Nazi occupation in the future?

Does Germany need a new anthem?

Whispers of Freedom

Requiems for the Firestorm

A Scandal in Königsberg

Auf Wiedersehen, Germany: Why so many Germans seek their fortunes abroad

Braunau will never not be Hitler's birthplace

The magazine many German parents didn't want their kids to read

"Our Boys" - Poles in the Wehrmacht

Naked Germans

Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe

What's left of German London?

The tragic story of a young man who died defying the Stasi

Morality Tales vs Punch and Judy

Could the Nazi Party have been banned?

Is Germany ready for the new AfD?

All nonfiction must stick to the truth

How Anglophile is Friedrich Merz?

The slow decline of Germany's oldest political party

Hoyer Holiday Reads

Merkel's tears and Bismarck's tantrums

Berlin, why are you like this?

Was communist resistance bad resistance?

Kiefer / Van Gogh

How Fears of a Nazi Atom Bomb Fuelled the Manhattan Project

How did Germany's first Veterans Day go?

What is it with Ireland and Germany?

A German in Poland - Part II

A German in Poland

Why people vote AfD

Is Germany ready to build a new military ethos?

Hats off: The Decline of East German Industry

The Most Desirable Room in Berlin

Too Naked for Berlin?

The Kingdom of Germany has fallen

What's left of World War II?

The case against an AfD ban

For Germany VE Day is no laughing matter

RIEFENSTAHL

Who speaks for East Germany?

Fanta and Nazi Germany

A feast fit for a philosopher

Spending Easter without Hitler

Meeting Margot Honecker

Too good to be cancelled

The Long Shadow of German Reunification

Why the German-American Dream will survive Trump

Why Germany won't say goodbye to Russia

Why Mother's Day isn't 'Nazi Crap'

Why representative democracies aren't so representative anymore

The Gravedigger of (Presidential) Democracy

When leaders lie...

The German Peasants' War

Viennese Whirls of History

New Government, New Germany?

The Prosecutor with Jack Fairweather

Why German workers are so angry

High Drama in Germany

Down to the Wire: Election Day in Germany

Weimar and the Future of Germany

Dictatorship Damage? What a new study reveals about East Germans

History and politics collide as Dresden mourns its destruction in WWII

Nostalgia for West Germany

Why the Hohenzollerns never ruled Germany again

German Politics at the Gates of Hell

How Germans Vote

The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis with Stephan Malinowski

And 80,000 Germans turned their backs on Hitler..Bob Dylan's difficult relationship with Germany

Donald Trump's German Secret

West Berlin's Cold War School of Rebels

Germany's Mafia Problem

Politics and Passion

What Elon Musk and Kaiser Wilhelm have in common

What will the New Year bring?