After winning a state election this past weekend, the German far right is closer to power than it has been in decades.

The rarest tank in the world is more of a victim of circumstance than any kind of standout military vehicle. The A7V Sturmpanzerwagen simply deployed too late.

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.

BERLIN — The man appointed to negotiate an apology for the 20th century’s first genocide, German diplomat Ruprecht Polenz, speaks of a need to establish “a common understanding of what happened in the ...