At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

How is it that the culture of German-speaking Europe has so profoundly influenced and shaped Western civilization—and especially the culture of the United States—through the centuries and into today?

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University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Unfortunately, I will not see Germany: Memories of a Nation at the British Museum because it closes this ...

William L. Shirer, who witnessed a 1934 Nazi rally in Nuremberg, would link the criminality of individuals to communal frenzy. Corbis Nineteen sixty: Only 15 years had passed since the end of World ...

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Even without knowing he’s written an entire book on the subject you know right off the bat that University of Texas Permian Basin Associate Professor of History Roland Spickermann is passionate about ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Novelist Ernst Jünger was the last living holder of the Pour le Mérite at the time of his death in 1998. While the name is in French rather than German, the “Blue Max” is ...