Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 Ian Buruma Penguin Press, 400 pages, $35 World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, ...

Jüergen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world's most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was ...

As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...

German philosopher Juergen Habermas, one of the world’s most influential thinkers and a leading voice in shaping postwar German thought, has died at age 96.

Her documentaries earned her acclaim as a cinematic genius, as well as criticism for putting her talent at the service of ...

Wartime artifacts were recovered from forested terrain around Berlin, ground contested during the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. These areas saw intense fighting between defending German forces — ...

In a new book about everyday existence in wartime Berlin, students, musicians, Nazi maidens, and members of the resistance ...

Campaigners have been protesting outside a Berlin factory as it switches from auto parts to munitions. But the workers and unions are divided — they want peace, but militarization offers job security.

On April 30 1945, in his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler shot himself dead. Yet despite the efficacy of that bullet, his fate has ...

Amid political tensions at the Berlin fest, the new initiative aims to build a long-term infrastructure for German-Israeli co-productions across film, television and theater. By Scott Roxborough ...