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On Holiday with the Stasi

Martyrs, Murder and Martin Luther

Should you keep a diary?

Dispatch from Weimar

Dispatch from Berlin

The Gendarme of Hildburghausen

The Ugliness of War

Should 8 May be a public holiday in Germany?

Who was responsible for the catastrophe of Nazism?

Germany and the Great War

What was life like in small-town East Germany?

How Germany Rearmed After WWII

The Last Askaris: Germany’s East African soldiers

Hotel Elephant: Where History Came to Stay

Death Strip to Green Belt: Walking the Berlin Wall

What Did Nietzsche Really Mean?

When the Red Army Stayed

Easter among East Germans

Wilhelm vs Bismarck: Who really unified Germany?

The Real Barbarossa

My Weekend with the Pennsylvania Dutch

Sonderweg: How Strange is German History Really?

From Oil Shock to State Collapse

Habermas is Dead. Will his ideas live on?

Louise - Life and Legacy of a Prussian Legend

Return to Weimar

The Second Life of Nazi Buildings

The Vanished Palace

A Journey through Berlin

Nico: The Reluctant German Muse

The 1870s are not over

The Iron Chancellor in Love

The Secret Life of Coffee in Germany

The Other 1936 Olympics

Living with the Past: Julia Franck’s Worlds Apart

Is Germany going Nuclear?

Filming the Unbelievable: How the Allies Recorded the Holocaust

Austria's long reckoning with its Nazi past

After the Wall: Why Europe Still Feels Divided

Walls, Krautrock and Fascist Flirtations: Bowie in Berlin

The Coldest Winter of the 20th Century

Man and Myth: Konrad Adenauer at 150

Inside East Germany - The Last Year

Some not-so-light reading for the New Year

Start the year with some German escapism