German communities brace for U.S. exit
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German officials voiced concern Monday that their country has the most to lose with President Bush's announcement that tens of thousands of troops will come home over the next decade - changes that will have an ...
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HAMBURG -- They closed the cinema and then the disco. The tractors grew scarce and the men grew moody. Claudia Mantzsch's east German hometown seemed to shrink. She wanted to stay but was laid off two weeks after getting her first job. Her boss offered some advice: Flee this place, or become a nurse for the elderly.
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The German government said on Tuesday  U.S. plans to pull out 30,000 troops were a sign of Europe's  divisions being healed, but communities hit by the decision  warned they were headed for economic disaster.
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U.S. President George W. Bush's troop redeployment may have its biggest effect on Germany, once a potential Cold War battlefield.
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In the weeks prior to President Bush's proclamation that 70,000 U.S. troops would pull out of bases in places such as Germany and South Korea, American officials were quietly negotiating where to put new posts ...
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Berlin and Warsaw have moved closer to ending a row over Germany's plans to mark the expulsion of millions of Germans from eastern Europe after World War Two, a subject that has strained relations for years.
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The U.S. military will keep a significant troop presence in Germany and even expand some bases, a senior U.S. commander said Thursday, despite the planned withdrawal of two Cold War-era divisions over the next decade.
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THE number of manufacturing jobs has been steadily declining in Germany. That trend could continue thanks to porous borders to the east, according to a poll by consultant AT Kearney.
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When American writer Christopher Isherwood lived in Germany from 1929 to 1933, he witnessed social and political changes that would soon explode into a world war.
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KRT) - Germans clogged the phone lines of radio talk shows Tuesday, worrying that payback time had finally arrived after the nation's decision to oppose last year's U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
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American expatriates in Germany are turning out in record numbers for the presidential election, spurred on by the German public, U.S. military commanders or a newfound sense that every vote could be decisive.
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Tensions are rising between Washington and allies such as Germany over the deployment of troops in Afghanistan
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Germans are agonising over whether decades of multiculturalism are coming to an end, reports the BBC's Ray Furlong.
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World War II is near its end. The Nazi empire is crumbling from its edges inward as Soviet and Allied forces advance. Millions of Jews, Gypsies, and political enemies of the Third Reich already have been systematically exterminated. Hundreds of thousands are still in death camps praying for rescue.
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Bystanders gazed in curiosity and disgust Monday at the razor-wire-topped fence that will separate Group of Eight leaders from the rest of Germany during this week's summit &#151; part of security measures that, for some, evoke memories of life behind the Iron Curtain.
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German Defense Minister Peter Struck said Tuesday that US troop withdrawal will bring about heavy losses to some regions in Germany and Berlin would take that into account when closing its own military ...
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An upsurge in far-right attacks is causing concern in Germany as the soccer tournament nears