After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space ...

Germany is stationing thousands of troops in Lithuania, the first time it's put soldiers in another country on a long-term ...

As the war was concluding and in its aftermath, German scientists were debriefed there as well, with some of their information proving priceless during the Cold War; one of them, Wernher von Braun ...

East v West - Germany's drug-fuelled Cold War for medals "These are all harmless drugs. All athletes take them. It's really nothing special." That was what German heptathlete Birgit Dressel ...

The German capital, Berlin ... The event touched off an especially tense period of the Cold War. Three weeks after the crash, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov received an alert at the command ...

Seven years later in 1952, the East German government (GDR) decided to change Chemnitz’s name to Karl-Marx-Stadt (Karl-Marx-City), despite Marx himself having never stepped foot in the city. Two ...

and domestic opposition to such deployments stretches back to when then-West Germany was a front-line state during the Cold War. Moscow called it an escalatory move and vowed a response.