To Germans, the word Heimat (homeland) has a deep sentimental significance. From political exiles such as Poet Heinrich Heine in 1831 (Ich hatte einst ein schones Vaterland) to modern-day emigres in ...

FOR the past year or so West Germany has been marking time in a political sense. After the controversy over Dr. Adenauer’s retirement from the chancellorship and the choice of a successor, the West ...

(See Cover) It is hard to imagine a figure less martial than West Germany’s new Chancellor. Round of shape, soft in manner, sanguine in temperament, he is every one’s rich uncle, the man who made West ...

West Germany joined NATO in 1955, choosing security over immediate territorial integrity. Some suggest the same path could be the best guarantee for Ukraine. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger ...