The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy Time,” and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the history is unsurprisingly more complicated than that ...

Berlin — When Karin Prien's mother brought her to Germany as a little girl in the late 1960s, she gave her one urgent warning: "Don't tell anyone you're Jewish." Nearly six decades later, Prien is now post World War II Germany's first Jewish federal ...

It was Thanksgiving in 1946 and the celebration took place as far away as Germany, which was in ruins after World War II. The U.S. Women’s Army Corps, stationed in Frankfurt, hosted 30 “wide-eyed” German children for a turkey dinner. The Chicago ...

Alice (L) and Ellen Kessler, taken on April 20, 2004 in Cologne during the recording of the WDR show "A red carpet for the Kesslers". The Kessler Twins, a singing-dancing German entertainment duo who reached the height of their fame in post-war Europe ...

Juergen Habermas, famed for his political consensus theory, shaped Germany’s post-war intellectual discourse. Passing at 96, he critiqued fascism and cautioned against nationalism. His works resonated as post-war Germany reckoned with its past and faced contemporary challenges.