Germany

VE Day 80: The story of The Irish Times’ most famous front page

Editor Bertie Smyllie was determined to celebrate the Allied victory and get it past the censors

Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s favourite film-maker: ‘After the first page of Mein Kampf she became an enthusiastic Nazi’

Andres Veiel’s authoritative new documentary is a damning portrait of the German propagandist

Merz’s first day: Berlin back in business and interested in new ‘push for Europe’

New German chancellor steps up efforts to bring peace to Europe

German election surprises break European shares hot streak

Pan-European STOXX 600 index snapped a 10-day winning streak

Friedrich Merz confirmed as chancellor after humiliation exposes Germany’s shrunken centre

Some in new coalition government did not support Merz in first round of Bundestag voting

The Irish Times view on Friedrich Merz: a change in Berlin

Merz’s bold first steps are all the more remarkable from this strong Atlanticist and fiscal conservative

Profile: Friedrich Merz known for impulsive shifts and rhetorical sharpshooting

Ex-chancellor Angela Merkel has announced she will attend Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony in Berlin

Dietrich Bonhoeffer cast as a culture warrior for the right? That makes no sense

Rite & Reason: Descendants of the Bonhoeffer family published an open letter to say they were ‘horrified’ to see the pastor’s legacy distorted

Madeleine McCann’s parents mark 18th anniversary of her disappearance

Toddler vanished from her bed during family holiday in Praia de Luz, Portugal

Olaf Scholz bows out with Beatles song, Bach piece and final plea for respect

Outgoing German chancellor will hand over power to centre-right CDU party leader Friedrich Merz

Germany designates populist AfD as far-right ‘extremists’

Berlin gives security services extra powers as party’s politics classed as ‘incompatible’ with democracy

De Valera’s condolences on the death of Hitler continue to provoke 80 years on

Notorious second World War incident is still cited today by those critical of Ireland

Centre-left SDP approves German coalition deal with centre-right CDU

SDP co-leader Lars Klingbeil set to become vice-chancellor and federal finance minister

Irish musician Wallis Bird: I bought a farmhouse with my partner and two other couples

I miss being around my parents in their home and I miss the seasons in Ireland, but I don’t see myself moving back

I had to tell my mother that her father had been tortured for 11 days and murdered

Everyone who encounters the Holocaust becomes implicated, a new witness to the mystery and the horror, with the responsibility to recount its history honestly

Tensions rising in Germany amid criticism of Israeli government

Growing conflict in Berlin, with state politicians and police facing off against pro-Gaza protestors, is seeping slowly into German federal politics

Berlin court sentences man to three years over anti-Semitic attack on German-Jewish student

Ruling comes amid protests against efforts to expel four pro-Palestinian activists from Germany, including two Irish citizens

German coalition deal gives SPD members Easter bellyache

SPD party members have received post from the party seeking permission to return as junior partners to the centre-right CDU

‘Donegal neighbours said we admire you for the braveness of emigrating. Who’s emigrating? It’s Europe’

Axel Pawlik first moved to Ireland from Germany in 1996, then returned during Covid

The liberation of Bergen-Belsen: ‘Hello, hello. You are free’

Concentration camp where Anne Frank, her sister Margot and some 70,000 others died stands as a warning for the future

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