On Apr. 16 , researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences — Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (OeAW) —and the ...

The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very ...

An American who had lived abroad, he sought out books by up-and-coming German writers, while ghostwriting memoirs for rock ...

Monreal is a stunning town in the Eifel region of Germany, known for its charming ... offering visitors a step back in time with its medieval architecture and beautiful landscapes.

Origins of the Easter Bunny are unclear, but he appears in early German writings. The first edible Easter bunnies appeared in Germany in the 1800s and were made from sugar and pastry. Jelly beans ...

Only Wallace Stegner could, as his protagonist says, “make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these.” ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...

Israeli screenwriters Moshe Zonder and Ronit Weiss Berkowitz won Best Writing at Series Mania for The German, showcasing Israeli TV's international success. Ania Bukstein, pictured here in the ...

Sohan Singh was taken prisoner in North Africa at the age of 18 and spent three years in Annaburg. He stayed in touch with the farmer he’d worked for in Germany, writing to him in passable German. A ...

An MIT professor discovered that the Pearl Manuscript from the 1300s has more to it than just four unconnected medieval poems ... When MIT literature professor Arthur Bahr spent some time with ...

Between 1571-1917, the Sacred Congregation of the Index, a special unit of the Vatican, investigated writings and compiled the lists of banned readings approved by the pope. Catholics who read ...