The worst nightmares of Europe’s sleeping giant are coming true all at once

Blinded by their own Cold War propaganda, Americans can’t see Berlin’s Ukraine policy for what it is

Initially welcomed with open arms, Ukrainian Jews in Berlin have only begun to discover the emotional and communal deprivations of refugee life

But it will take more than a war to undo decades of emotional and economic investment in the Russian state

Germany’s collusion with Russia at the expense of Ukraine is a shameful betrayal of its postwar achievements

The country’s public dedication to Holocaust remembrance has masked a startling disregard for justice

Preserving the history of three German cities that loom large in Jewish history: Speyer, Worms, and Mainz

Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner is in talks to buy the Beltway news site, which bodes poorly for employees who have tried to bully management into left-wing ideological purity

Berlin’s Neue Synagogue draws an unusually diverse crowd—but that’s been true since it opened more than 150 years ago

A new biography explores the life of Hugo Marcus, a gay Jew who played a key role in the establishment of Islam in Germany before fleeing from Hitler

The inspiration for the president’s infrastructure plan is Angela Merkel, not FDR

Living in a city where reminders of the Holocaust are everywhere has given me unexpected opportunities to teach my children about the past

The threat is real, starting with right-wing paramilitaries and also including some Muslim bigots and their political enablers on the left. But the German state is determined to fight.

American expats are leaving their mark on the German capital—and vice versa

My brother and I took different religious paths as adults, until studying different languages brought us back together