Search

Byline: Katrin Bennhold With nations determined to return to in-person learning, many will have trouble matching Germany's formula: fast and free testing, robust contact tracing and low community spread. BERLIN [...]

With nations determined to return to in-person learning, many will have trouble matching Germany's formula: fast and free testing, robust contact tracing and low community spread. BERLIN -- On the [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Germany has woken up to a problem of far-right extremism in its elite special forces. But the threat of neo-Nazi infiltration of state institutions is much broader. [...]

Germany has woken up to a problem of far-right extremism in its elite special forces. But the threat of neo-Nazi infiltration of state institutions is much broader. GÜSTROW, Germany -- [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold CALW, Germany - As Germany emerged from its coronavirus lockdown in May, police commandos pulled up outside a rural property owned by a sergeant major in the [...]

CALW, Germany -- As Germany emerged from its coronavirus lockdown in May, police commandos pulled up outside a rural property owned by a sergeant major in the special forces, the [...]

For years, far-right extremists were tolerated inside Germany's most elite military unit. An underground bunker of explosives has woken the authorities to an alarming problem. BERLIN -- Germany's defense minister [...]

In the postwar era, Germany fundamentally redesigned law enforcement to prevent past atrocities from ever repeating. Its approach may hold lessons for police reform everywhere. BERLIN -- When Inspector Martin [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold and Melissa Eddy In the postwar era, Germany fundamentally redesigned law enforcement to prevent past atrocities from ever repeating. Its approach may hold lessons for police reform [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold and Emile Ducke BERLIN - I've given my phone number to a lot of strangers over the past week. I scribbled it down for the charming barista [...]

BERLIN -- I've given my phone number to a lot of strangers over the past week. I scribbled it down for the charming barista who made my latte the other [...]

One week after Chancellor Angela Merkel told President Trump she would not attend the Group of 7 meeting he wanted to host, he decided to withdraw 9,500 troops from her [...]

German authorities are investigating a 43-year-old sex offender in connection with the disappearance of the 3-year-old girl from a hotel room in Portugal 13 years ago. BERLIN -- After more [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold The pandemic marginalized the far right, as Germans rallied behind Angela Merkel. But the reopening has brought them back, and they are preparing to seize new opportunities. [...]

The pandemic marginalized the far right, as Germans rallied behind Angela Merkel. But the reopening has brought them back, and they are preparing to seize new opportunities. BERLIN -- Outside [...]

Patience with President Vladimir Putin is running thin in Berlin. But Germany needs Russia's help on several geopolitical fronts from Syria to Ukraine. BERLIN -- Chancellor Angela Merkel used strong [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Restarting classes is central to reviving economies. But one question haunts the efforts: Just how contagious are children, and could they be the next super spreaders? NEUSTRELITZ, [...]

Restarting classes is central to reviving economies. But one question haunts the efforts: Just how contagious are children, and could they be the next super spreaders? NEUSTRELITZ, Germany -- It [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold and Melissa Eddy Europe's largest democracy is now confident enough to lift most restrictions on businesses and schools. BERLIN - Germany was a leader in the West [...]

Europe's largest democracy is now confident enough to lift most restrictions on businesses and schools. BERLIN -- Germany was a leader in the West in taking on the coronavirus pandemic, [...]

The coronavirus pandemic is shaking bedrock assumptions about U.S. exceptionalism. This is perhaps the first global crisis in more than a century where no one is even looking for Washington [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold and Laetitia Vancon BERLIN - Felix Germann was not expecting anyone when his doorbell rang last week. Outside was a doctor who looked like she had just [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Looking for a return to normal may be misplaced. Instead, the next phase is about learning how to live with the virus, possibly for a long time. [...]

Looking for a return to normal may be misplaced. Instead, the next phase is about learning how to live with the virus, possibly for a long time. BERLIN -- Austria [...]

OBERAMMERGAU, Germany -- There is no doubt in the mind of the Rev. Thomas Gröner that what happened in his village was a miracle. He says he has proof, too. [...]

The pandemic has hit Germany hard, with more than 92,000 people infected. But the percentage of fatal cases has been remarkably low compared to those in many neighboring countries. They [...]

The United States, China and Europe are battling to be the first to find a cure, bringing a nationalist element to a worldwide crisis. WASHINGTON -- A global arms race [...]

The continent hit a bleak milestone in the coronavirus epidemic, surpassing China in cases and deaths. A leader who knows something about confinement pleaded for citizens to accept it, for [...]

The United States says it will share any vaccine breakthroughs with the world, but German officials appeared rattled by its reported overture to a biotech firm. BERLIN -- The Trump [...]

The intelligence agency labeled a wing of the Alternative for Germany extremist, warning of a ''danger for democracy.'' BERLIN -- In an unusually strongly worded warning, Germany's domestic intelligence agency [...]

The famously no-nonsense chancellor, keeping to form, braced Germany for an epidemic that may reach extraordinary scale. BERLIN -- Chancellor Angela Merkel is on her way out and her power [...]

As the far-right gains traction, harassment and intimidation of local officials are growing, threatening democracy at the grass roots. COLOGNE, Germany -- The last time Henriette Reker ran for mayor, [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold and Steven Erlanger The resignation of the chancellor's preferred replacement threatens to extend a lack of German leadership. That will be the 'elephant in the room' at [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said she would quit after her conservative party voted with the far right in one German state. Her decision leaves the race to succeed Angela [...]

The resignation of the chancellor's preferred replacement threatens to extend a lack of German leadership. That will be the ''elephant in the room'' at the annual Munich Security Conference this [...]

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said she would quit after her conservative party voted with the far right in one German state. Her decision leaves the race to succeed Angela Merkel wide open, [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Alma Zadic arrived in Vienna from Bosnia when she was 10. Now, she is the justice minister in an awkward coalition of liberal Greens and hard-line, anti-immigrant [...]

Alma Zadic arrived in Vienna from Bosnia when she was 10. Now, she is the justice minister in an awkward coalition of liberal Greens and hard-line, anti-immigrant conservatives. VIENNA -- [...]

Germans took to the streets in protest this week when the far right and Chancellor Merkel's conservatives voted together in a local power struggle. To some, it was like ''the [...]

After a Berlin meeting, Russia, Turkey and other countries pledged to end their interference in the North African nation to make way for peace efforts. BERLIN -- Russia, Turkey and [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold and Jack Ewing VW, Daimler and BMW sell more cars in China than anywhere else and many already cooperate with Huawei - a dependency Beijing is not [...]

VW, Daimler and BMW sell more cars in China than anywhere else and many already cooperate with Huawei -- a dependency Beijing is not shy to exploit. BERLIN -- Chancellor [...]

Germany's federal prosecutor took over an inquiry into the murder of a former commander of Chechen separatists, and the authorities expelled two Russian diplomats. BERLIN -- The German authorities declared [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold and Laetitia Vancon Germany Has Been Unified for 30 Years. Its Identity Still Is Not. BERLIN - Abenaa Adomako remembers the night the Berlin Wall fell. Joyous [...]

The Fall of the Berlin Wall in Photos: An Accident of History That Changed The World By Katrin Bennhold BERLIN -- When Werner Krätschell, an East German pastor and dissident, [...]

Germany Has Been Unified for 30 Years. Its Identity Still Is Not. BERLIN -- Abenaa Adomako remembers the night the Berlin Wall fell. Joyous and curious like so many of [...]

BERLIN -- The far-right Alternative for Germany party on Sunday celebrated a strong showing in the former Communist East, more than doubling its support in a state election held two [...]

BERLIN -- It was a stunt but it was revealing. Lawmakers of the far-right Alternative for Germany were read quotations and then asked: Were these penned by Björn Höcke, the [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold, Amanda Taub and Max Fisher FRANKENSTEIN, Germany - They called it the Frankenstein coalition, and not just for the location. When the Frankenstein chapter of Chancellor Angela [...]

FRANKENSTEIN, Germany -- They called it the Frankenstein coalition, and not just for the location. When the Frankenstein chapter of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party defied Berlin and formed an [...]