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How Germany Changed Its Mind, and Gave the Benin Bronzes Back
A ceremony in Nigeria on Tuesday was the culmination of a yearslong process that upended Germany’s approach to museum items…
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The Prince, the Plot and a Long-Lost Reich
The crenelated hunting lodge of Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss sits atop a steep hill, looking out over homes laced…
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Spat Over Patriot Missiles Reveals Deepening Rifts in Europe Over Ukraine
Relations between Warsaw and Berlin, never warm, have deteriorated since the start of the Ukraine war, damaging unity in both…
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Your Thursday Briefing: China Eases Covid Restrictions
Also, Peru’s president is ousted and Germany arrests 25 people suspected of plotting a coup.
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Werner Franke, Who Exposed East German Doping Program, Dies at 82
In the 1990s, he and his wife unearthed documentary evidence of the illicit, state-sponsored drug program that propelled the country…
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Leading Light in German Letters, Dies at 93
Poet, essayist, journalist and social critic, he held wide influence among a postwar literary generation with works as intellectual as…
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Germans Have Seen the Future, and It’s a Heat Pump
The boxy machines look and function like large air-conditioners on reverse, but Germans hope they hold the key to Europe’s…
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Germany’s Coach Is Out of His Depth, and So Is Its Chancellor
BERLIN — The start was promising. In a WhatsApp group — under the peppy name “Get prepared” — the coach…
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Missiles for Poland Raise Questions on NATO Stance in Ukraine War
WARSAW — When a missile slammed into a Polish village just a few miles from Ukraine last week and killed…
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Almost Safe, She Returned to Munich and Lost Her Painting and Her Life
Late in the summer of 1938, as the Nazis escalated their persecution of German Jews, Ilse Hesselberger and her daughter,…