Eisenhüttenstadt was built in the 1950s to deliver Germans from the destruction of war through the ideals of communism. Behind a facade that is “like the past, but more beautiful”, the city faces an uncertain future.
Prosecutors in Hamburg are investigating a 93-year-old woman who has been accused of having supervised a “death march” away from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Far fewer people than previously thought may have died in the infamous Allied firebombing of Dresden at the close of World War II, according to a new assessment by historians.
