GREECE WANTS GERMANY TO REPAY 279BN IT WAS FORCED TO LOAN THE NAZI AUTHORITIES DURING WWII

Mr Mardas was speaking at a committee set up by the country's left-wing Syriza government to calculate how much money Germany owed Greece... READ MORE›

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR

In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›

HELMUT KOHL CHANCELLOR WHO REUNITED GERMANY DIES AT 87

East Germany, thought to have had the strongest economy of any European Communist country, turned out to be bankrupt... READ MORE›

HELMUT KOHL, GERMANY'S REUNIFICATION CHANCELLOR, DIES AGED 87

Helmut Kohl, the chancellor who presided over both German reunification and the creation of the eurozone, has died aged 87... READ MORE›

GERMAN CONSERVATIVES ARE DESTROYING EUROPE WITH AUSTERITY, SAYS ECONOMIST THOMAS PIKETTY

German conservatives are destroying europe with austerity says economist thomas piketty... READ MORE›

NO, THE GREEK AGREEMENT IS NOT A COUP AND IF YOU THINK IT IS, YOU'RE AN IDIOT

And are the negotiations slanted against Greece, because Germany has more money and political clout within the EU than Greece?... READ MORE›

EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM

Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... READ MORE›

HELMUT SCHMIDT ASSERTIVE WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR DIES AT 96

For decades, Mr. Schmidt was one of West Germany's most popular politicians... READ MORE›

GIANT SWASTIKA FOUND IN BRAZIL SWIMMING POOL

09 Feb 2012 The swastika was found in the town of Pomerode in the state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil... READ MORE›

70 YEARS LATER HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED AMERICA

Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country... READ MORE›

WHY DO WE LOVE THE SPITFIRE?

Britain stepped up the production of fighter planes building them faster than Germany... READ MORE›

FOREST OUTSIDE NAZI DEATH CAMP YIELDS DISTURBING FIND

During World War II, the Nazis were known to adjust Stutthof's size depending on their needs... READ MORE›

HELMUT KOHL: LEADER WHO UNITED EUROPE AS WELL AS GERMANY

Both reasoned that Europe would only be safe and secure if its two leading powers and its most frequent antagonists, France and Germany, worked in tandem... READ MORE›

NATO LAUNCHES LARGEST AIRBORNE DRILLS IN EUROPE SINCE END OF COLD WAR

It said the exercise marks the first time the US 82nd Airborne Division has operated in Europe since supporting Nato operations in Kosovo in 1999... READ MORE›

CZECH REPUBLIC CRITICIZED FOR MARKING MIGRANTS WITH NUMBERS

This incident shows how certain countries in Europe have been hit completely off guard, he said... READ MORE›

EX-GERMAN CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL DIES AGED 87

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of Germany's reunification, died on Friday aged 87, his party said... READ MORE›

MISSING WOMAN FOUND 30 YEARS AFTER MAN CONFESSED TO HER MURDER

Ms Pazsitka said she spent the last 11 years in Dusseldorf, previously living in several other cities in west Germany, according to police... READ MORE›

DOZENS OF MIGRANTS FOUND DEAD IN TRUCK ON AUSTRIA HIGHWAY, SAY POLICE

So we shouldn't pretend that only Italy and Greece are affected, he said in an interview with public broadcaster ORF... READ MORE›

'WE CAN DO IT!' HUNDREDS DRESS UP AS WWII ICON ROSIE THE RIVETER

They'd just tentatively broken the Guinness World Record for most Rosies in one place since WWII... READ MORE›

WWII TANK WAS STASHED IN 78-YEAR-OLD'S CELLAR

Prosecutors meanwhile are investigating whether possession of the tank torpedo anti-aircraft gun and other weapons violates Germany's War Weapons Control Act... READ MORE›

FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: THE GUARD WHO OPENED THE GATE - AND MADE HISTORY

Mr J ger, now 71, is renowned in Germany for being the man who opened the Berlin Wall ... READ MORE›

FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: GOOGLE COMMEMORATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH VIDEO DOODLE

The Berlin Wall was East Germany's way of keeping East Germans from fleeing into the West... READ MORE›

11am Two hours before Germany's deadline to France expired, Baron von Schoen, the Kaiser's ambassador in Paris, presented himself to Viviani to receive France's reply... READ MORE›

FATHER OF GERMAN REUNIFICATION HELMUT KOHL DIES AGED 87

Helmut Kohl was a great German and a great European... READ MORE›

V-J DAY: RARE COLOUR ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS PEOPLE CELEBRATING END OF WORLD WAR II

Video V-J Day rare colour archive footage shows people celebrating end of World War II... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS OF PAIRS OF SHOES OF NAZI PRISONERS DISCOVERED IN POLISH FOREST

Ms Drywa also speculated that the shoes may once have lain in the camp's rubbish tip... READ MORE›

NO BAILOUT CAN SAVE GREECE FROM ITSELF

Fuest's logic is simple Emergency loans to Greece are not really loans... READ MORE›

WE CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE GREECE TO RUSSIA

Never mind that the peril of having fallen the wrong side of the Iron Curtain are all too clearly exemplified by Greece's neighbours... READ MORE›

'IRISH' TOURIST TAKES ON ANGRY MOB OF TURKISH SHOPKEEPERS

An action-packed video of a man described as an 'Irish tourist' street-fighting a mob of angry shopkeepers has surfaced in Turkey... READ MORE›

THE REAL WORLD SMALL ARMS THAT INSPIRED THE WEAPONS OF 'STAR WARS'

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side Han Solo aboard the Millennium Falcon enroute to Alderaan... READ MORE›