At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

At the height of the Cold War, the political leadership of the Federal Republic of Germany built the government bunker here.

The Berlin Apartment' immerses users in the lives of past city residents. They experience German history through the game, ...

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Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. A New History of German Literature actually delivers far more than its title suggests. It consists of some 200 ...