The electric vehicle might seem like a very modern invention, but is actually as old as automobile itself. It first appeared in the autumn o...
In 19th-century Munich, a woman with no formal banking experience began promising ordinary people extraordinary returns on their savings. Wo...
It appears that quite a few people have been killed or brought to justice for having failed to deliver on their promise of turning ordinary ...
In northern Germany, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, between the rivers Weser and Elbe, stands a mountain that is home to mysterious legends ...
During the years the Berlin Wall stood, roughly 5,000 people managed to escape across it into West Berlin. Before the wall was constructed, ...
In the autumn of 1944, as World War II raged across Europe, a moment of extraordinary humanity occurred in the Dutch village of Goirle. On ...
On a crisp October morning in 1906, a man in an immaculate Prussian captain’s uniform marched into the Berlin suburb of Köpenick and coolly ...
The town of Nordlingen in the Donau-Ries district of western Bavaria, Germany, is unlike any other town in the district. In fact, it's u...
Legendary German composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach suffered from weak eyesight for much of his life. His handwriting—beautiful in ...
On the afternoon of April 25, 2007, Michele Kiesewetter , a 22-year-old police officer in the German city of Heilbronn, was shot dead in a p...
