THE “Adenauer story" has a romance of its own. It is the story — incredible as it may sound to many who have seen the Chancellor in his suave moods in the Bundestag — of a hick-town boy who has made ...

When World War II ended, Germany lay in ruins. Its cities were destroyed, its political system collapsed, and the country was ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But I don't believe Democrats chose Biden simply out of risk aversion. I believe he spoke to another deeply felt desire. And there ...

It was the fiercest, longest, and almost certainly the last big battle the old man would ever fight. Its cost may be reckoned for years to come. But after seven weeks of haggling, browbeating, ...

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- What is one to think about the curious fact that only one group of Americans bothered to commemorate the 125th birthday of Germany's greatest Christian statesman of the 20th ...

For five years Konrad Adenauer had labored to put West Germany’s best face forward. The stern old schoolmaster kept the unruly boys in his Bundestag shiny, neat and well-behaved. But last week, with ...

The Konrad Adenauer Forum is dedicated to the life and politics of the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Historical analogies are a tricky thing, apt to give one an unwarranted confidence in one's ability to foretell the future. I'm not the only commentator to have wondered, for example, whether Sen.