Carnivals in Germany have long satirized the powerful. Calls to keep politics out of the festivities are now being used to ...

Pope Francis was laid to rest in private in St. Mary Major Basilica. Security was tightened in Rome as world leaders attended ...

Here are the key things to know about the funeral of the first Latin American pontiff in the church’s history.

In the memorable May of 1945, amidst the wave of universal jubilation, it seemed that Nazism had been eradicated forever. The ...

In the early 1900s, Alton's City Band, also known as the White Hussars, celebrated German heritage with elaborate uniforms ...

The Hakenkreuz — the twisted swastika used by the Nazi regime — has no place on the streets of Winnipeg. Yet here we are, ...

The Battle of Nuremberg, one of the last American battles in Europe in World War II, saw the 7th Army engage in days of ...

As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...

Homes on Alte Amberger Street in Grafenwoehr, Germany, lay in ruin following U.S. military air raids on April 5 and April 8, ...

The tradition of decorating Easter eggs is part of the culture of the Slavic-speaking Sorbian ethnic minority in Germany.

Relics of war still linger in this German city but the Saxon capital is defined by a defiant spirit of renewal, with a ...