Sent from his London home, where he lived after the Nazi takeover of Austria, Freud penned the letter in German “fraktur-style” handwriting, which is no longer in common use. Addressed to ...

Fraktur is an artistic teaching tool that was introduced by schoolmasters in colonial America. The term comes from its broken or fractured German lettering style. The designs of fraktur draw upon ...

In 1941, a group of intellectual Jews confined to the Vilna ghetto — writers, scholars, poets and the like — were forced by the Nazis to plunder their own people’s treasured works for a Nazi ...

German citizens went to the polls this Sunday, taking part in snap federal elections in a vote that will shape the course of the EU's largest member state and its biggest economy for the next four ...

Both the euro and German equity markets are likely to be boosted by the outcome of the German snap election over the weekend. The euro climbed to above 1.05, the highest in two months during ...

Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz emerged as the winner in Sunday’s election, but the results gave his bloc just one clear path to power with intense pressure to move quickly to ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

Live Page editor. A text and video journalist based in London, Stephen is a former Reuters bureau chief in Jerusalem. He was previously a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and The Times ...

If Merz wants to get rid of the infamous debt brake in order to pump money into the German army, he will need a two-thirds majority of votes in the Bundestag. The Greens say they are prepared to ...

"The global situation is changing dramatically day by day, all of which requires a capable German government," he said, expressing confidence that his party can agree on a "good coalition ...

Ed Turner receives funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a ...