Germany

The making of a maelstrom

How the Anglophile Kaiser Wilhelm went to war with Britain

Books
Back to the wall

Despite the fact East Germany has disappeared, it continues to live on in this outstanding trilogy

On Television
Grand old warrior

Nigel Jones recalls the time he spent in the home of the legendary German writer Ernst Jünger

Features
Mood music from the past

A confidential matter: the letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935

Features
Was test and trace doomed to fail?

If nothing else, Dido Harding has outperformed her European counterparts

Artillery Row
European champions

Kampfner has written a scrupulously researched yet not uncritical tribute to postwar Germany

Books
The imperial court of the ECJ

The dismantlement of the EU’s separation of powers has wider implications, especially for the UK

Artillery Row
How I discovered Germany

Daniel Johnson on how he found a lost love for the Germans

Artillery Row
How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society

Artillery Row
Myths of the Prophet Max

Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today

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