West Germany's armed forces chief today was quoted as defending the practice of giving most troops the weekend off, saying he ruled out the possibility of a surprise Soviet attack on a Saturday or Sunday.
The furor over President Reagan's visit to a German cemetery leads one to realize that the
Thank you for your consistent, reasonable, but urgent protest against the President's plan to visit the cemetery at Bitburg.
I am inspired by President Reagan's humanitarian gesture of visiting the cemetery of German war dead and the sight of a concentration camp.
At the West German Social Democratic Party Congress in Nuremberg last week, leadership passed to a new generation.
At least 100 Iranians attacked the West German Embassy in Tehran today, and Foreign Ministry
West German President Richard von Weizsaecker will fly to Budapest on Monday for the first visit to Hungary by a West German head of state.
A 33-year-old East German pilot fled to West Germany in a crop-duster plane and landed near here, West German border police reported.
Bertelsmann, the large West German publishing and entertainment conglomerate that owns Bantam Books
A car bomb exploded Friday outside the headquarters of a major defense contractor, shattering hundreds of windows but causing no injuries, authorities said.
A West German ship rescued 77 Vietnamese refugees, 28 of them children, from a small boat in the
West German border guards are shivering in new hats this winter, an East German newspaper reported
Timothy Benson has been named associate curator of the County Museum of Art's Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies.
The West German sports community was rocked by charges that members of the national soccer team have used drugs.
A 22-year-old East German escaped unharmed to the West late Wednesday by climbing over the
The supreme commander of Soviet armed forces in East Germany, appointed less than a year ago, is leaving his post, the official news agency ADN reported Saturday.
A bomb today tore through the armor-plated car of the chief of research of the Siemens electronics group, killing him and his driver as they drove to work.
Six plainclothes police, acting on a tip, strolled into a small town cafe and seized a major terrorist suspect as she sat eating ice cream with two companions, the federal prosecutor's office said Sunday.
Nearly $2.3 million was stolen from the safe of Borchert Co., a Hamburg cash-transport firm, police said.
Germany Today, a Personal Report by Walter Laqueur (Little, Brown: $16.95) Toward the end of his book, Walter Laqueur states that "Parliamentary democracy has come to (West) Germany to stay, irrespective of the magnitude of the problems and threats ahead."