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In ‘The Winter Warriors,’ French writer Olivier Norek narrates the 1939-40 confrontation between the two countries

Madrid will host the league’s first regular season game in Spain, the latest country to join after two decades of expansion in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Germany

Two years after the raids, Kibbutz Nir Oz solemnly remembers the dead. The wound will only heal with the return of the remaining hostages

The Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid is hosting the largest retrospective in Spain of the photographer’s work, with 250 pieces, including images, publications, and objects on war and life

The annual report criticizes Germany for its laws against far-right speech and refrains from censuring Israel’s actions in Gaza

The weariness of European capitals with Washington’s posturing is strengthening Brussels’ search for answers during the final stages of negotiations

A study conducted in Germany indicates that a 20-minute nap can help us reach the so-called aha moment

The renowned professor warns that ‘when wages stagnate, jobs are precarious, housing is unaffordable, and public services deteriorate, it’s normal for people to rebel’

Hans Gräser, a 79-year-old German, discovered documents revealing the family’s ties to Hitler’s regime while clearing out his parents’ house. He’s not the only one to whom this has happened

Wünsdorf, a town nicknamed ‘Little Moscow’ during the Cold War because of its gigantic Soviet base, reflects the strong opposition in the former GDR to rearmament policies and support for Ukraine

The former GDR, a stronghold of the AfD, and Vienna, where the extremists won in September, avoided taking responsibility for Nazi crimes as West Germany did

The AfD leader maintains a discourse that contradicts her personal life but is allowing her to gain ground among a German electorate concerned about immigration

German filmmaker Andres Veiel reexamines the figure of the director of ‘Triumph of the Will’ and ‘Olympia’ through her extensive and valuable private archives

Vienna-based Muschicraft has set out to create the world’s first feminist beer

EL PAÍS visits Berlin’s Lovehoney, a leading company in an industry whose pandemic-era surge shows no signs of letting up

Thirty-five years after the fall of the German Democratic Republic, a ‘mental wall’ continues to divide the country, including in its literature. EL PAÍS took a trip through Berlin, Jena and Leipzig in search of the great German novel, written today by authors like Jenny Erpenbeck and Clemens Meyer

German consumers will pay almost €400 per megawatt hour on Thursday, the highest figure since the end of 2022

Around 4,700 people are waiting an average of 285 days in the Tegel shelters for a place to stay. ‘I came here to work. I didn’t think I would be stuck here,’ says a Ukrainian

In a new book, Chilean researcher Cristóbal Marín describes the exploitation and colonization suffered by the Fuegian ethnic groups, both inside and outside their territory

In his new book, the British historian profiles 24 of the Third Reich’s criminals, bursting the cliché of pathological monstrosity

Germany’s most influential feminist sees the self-determination of gender as a madness stemming from a capitalist system in which everything can be bought

Prices have risen by 54% in the United States, 32% in China and nearly 15% in the European Union between 2015 and 2024. Though policies have been implemented to increase supply and regulate rentals, their impact has been limited and the problem is getting worse

An exhibition in Berlin pays tribute to the small acts of resistance by anonymous individuals of various social classes and ideologies who risked their lives to confront National Socialism

Investigators also point to two other Ukrainians as being part of a team of divers who placed explosives on the gas pipeline between Russia and Germany