The 93-year-old claims he was merely an 'accountant' at the Nazi concentration camp

German rail network says the sleeper service was incurring debts of over €20 million a year

Seventy-two-year-old Peter Georgi had been doling out gifts to the children of the store’s wealthy customers for 13 years. But KaDeWe’s management decided that with an average of 100,000 people visiting the shop each day, Mr Georgi was too old and therefore too unfit to cope with the crowds. “At over 70, a Father Christmas has a right to retire,” was how the marketing boss dismissed the callous treatment meted out to Mr Georgi.

Chancellor’s remarks on Russia and EU may be primarily for domestic consumption

Even on a grey midweek afternoon with temperatures below freezing, in Berlin’s Görlitzer Park it takes a mere 90 seconds after arriving before somebody asks: “Wanna score?”

Competing visions for Kreuzberg put the spotlight on Germany’s fractured urban culture

Alois Brunner sent at least 128,500 European Jews to the gas chambers during World War II, but the collapse of communism allowed him to live out the rest of his days in impunity

Ms Albayrak’s tragic fate prompted thousands to take part in candlelit vigils across Germany on Saturday

“Red Flora”, as the decaying, graffiti-smeared building in Hamburg’s fashionable Schanzenviertel district is called, was built in 1889 and once served as a music hall.