BERLIN — After the episode with the Nazi-linked serenade, Kay Gottschalk, a member of the German parliament from the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, was sure his presentation to the ...

There’s something quietly revolutionary about paperwork. It rarely makes headlines or history books. But every so often, a bureaucratic act reveals a moral frontier. Because citizenship isn’t just ...

This has been clear to many for years now, though perhaps less so for the German delegation to the UN, who famously laughed at President Donald Trump while he warned them about the dangers of ...

Germany’s Holocaust memorial day warns that atrocities begin not with gas chambers but with language, spectacle, and indifference. The United States is not Nazi Germany, yet the erosion of democratic ...

On a recent Freakonomics episode about the German film director Werner Herzog, host Stephen Dubner voiced a familiar assertion about postwar Germany’s confrontation with the Nazi past — an assertion ...