Sixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s length

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Chancellor acknowledges disastrous state election results but vow to push on is likely to further alienate voters, and his own party

Far-right AfD wins in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and leftwing Die Linke on course for victory in Berlin Germany’s embattled chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has vowed to stay in office and fight for future-proofing economic reforms despite heavy losses for his conservatives in two state elections, one to the far right and the other to a leftwing party. Preliminary results indicated Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) tallied just over the 5% threshold to enter the state parliament in the coastal region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, its worst-ever state score, which he called a “disaster”. Continue reading...

France and Germany among countries with low Pisa scores, which show how well 15-year-olds use school learning in life

Socialist Hotels is the first photography book to focus solely on the architecture of hospitality in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet landscape. These state-constructed buildings were used by visiti...

The German chancellor’s hold on power has looked increasingly shaky since a shocking election earlier this month

Chancellor cancels plan to speak at the UN as far-right AfD target further gains in elections this weekend

Many fear chancellor is wrong man for the job at a time when Germany’s defences against far right are crumbling

Many fear chancellor is wrong man for the job at a time when Germany’s defences against far right are crumbling

The long-running drama reaches Hitler’s rise to power in its final season as its creators reflect on the unsettling parallels between Weimar Germany and the present day

Friedrich Merz says Alternative für Deutschland is ‘dividing our society’ after party won nearly 44% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt state election * Europe live – latest updates Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has accused the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) of seeking “ethnic cleansing” with its “remigration” drive, after the nativist party’s seismic weekend victory in a state election. In their first public confrontation since Sunday’s shock outcome in Saxony-Anhalt, Merz said at a raucous parliamentary debate that the AfD would take an axe to one of the pillars of the German economy with a racist campaign of mass deportations. Continue reading...

Alarm that Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania may fall next after party’s Saxony-Anhalt election victory

He is famed for creating a golden loo that was stolen and a $6m banana that was eaten. But, says the sculptor ahead of a major new show in Germany, there’s more to his work than pranks and provocation

The long-running drama reaches Hitler’s rise to power in its final season as its creators reflect on the unsettling parallels between Weimar Germany and the present day

Roher, unverstellter und emotionaler als der Berlin-Marathon: Der jährliche Knastlauf führt Gefangene an ihre Grenzen. Unser Autor durfte mitmachen – unter strengen Sicherheitsvorkehrungen.

Poll to take place in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, where Bauhaus blossomed a century ago – and where AfD is promising ‘patriotic culture policy’ if it wins

Second world war paintings and sketches show novelist ‘engaging with her world in a new light’

Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects

Campaigners say people who have had cancer face discrimination in areas including bank loans, adoption of children and insurance

Supporters fear structure could be torn down as safety hazard and want it to become memorial to postwar foreign labourers in honour of its Turkish creator

Supporters fear structure could be torn down as safety hazard and want it to become memorial to postwar foreign labourers in honour of its Turkish creator

Konrad Wolf’s 1980 drama follows a singer trying to escape the drab compromises of GDR life, capturing the melancholy of thwarted ambition with warmth and wit

Authorities ask for help finding 21-year-old, identified only as Abdul B, after van ramming in German capital

Neo-Nazis visit Adolf Hitler's birthplace as a pilgrimage site.

Police unit in Braunau am Inn will tackle narcotics trafficking and help prevent people visiting it as pilgrimage site Austria has opened a police station in the birthplace of Adolf Hitler in an attempt to “neutralise” its toxic legacy, after years of debate over how to stop neo-Nazis visiting it as a pilgrimage site. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in a rented flat of the building in the town centre of Braunau am Inn and spent the first weeks of his life there. Continue reading...

Hamburg shop set up in tribute to aspiring pastry chef becomes ‘happy’ pilgrimage site for grieving parents

The men, who drugged and secretly filmed their victims, were members of an online gang targeting mainly women of Chinese heritage

Day trippers face fines for entering Austrian city’s old town during July and August to curb ‘chaotic traffic situations’

Dancer, dog owner, bank robber. Germany’s most-wanted woman, Daniela Klette, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after decades on the run. Deborah Cole and Jason Burke report

Team is working to digitise archive of correspondence donated by public, charting relationships, social history and evolution of language

The photographer loved to record the small details of life, so it was only fitting that his family should organise a send-off inspired by his work. ‘Funerals can be really beautiful,’ says the person ...

Retail innovation, where people can shop alone after staff have gone, is helping vital community hubs survive

Retail innovation, where people can shop alone after staff have gone, is helping vital community hubs survive

Journalismus in harten Zeiten. Ein deutsch-amerikanischer Austausch

For years, I polished the brass plaques in front of my apartment dedicated to a Jewish mother and daughter who were murdered by the Nazis. Then a message out of the blue connected me to a surviving child …

For years, I polished the brass plaques in front of my apartment dedicated to a Jewish mother and daughter who were murdered by the Nazis. Then a message out of the blue connected me to a surviving ch...

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Trump has threatened to pull 5,000 troops from Germany – while European leaders worry this is just the start of a US withdrawal from the continent. Deborah Cole reports

Just 19% of Germans approve of the chancellor’s leadership – with some of his comments causing offence amid spats with the White House