Von Peter Pabisch
Dreißig Jahre sind vergangen seit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer; bekanntlich ereignete sich dieses historische Datum am 9. November 1989 und folgte dem Ende des Eisernen Vorhangs in den Monat... Read More...
By James Ullrich
The Danube River winds along the valley, the water blueish and placid. There is a hint of autumnal chill in the air. The boats coming from Vienna go slower as they are going against the curr... Read More...
By Robert A. Selig
Geographer, naturalist, explorer, scientist, Romantic philosopher, and all-around polymath Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was born on 14 September 1769 in Berlin, capita... Read More...
Small steps, narrow alleys and pointed gables shape this Swabian university town.
By Wibke Carter • Photographs Courtesy Wibke Carter
The students of Tübingen are a special breed. They organize themselves i... Read More...
By James M. Beidler
Just as “time and place” are a set of cross-hairs that determine what records exist for a particular era and locality during the life of a particular ancestor, there are a fair number of ... Read More...
By Julian Mattocks • Photographs Courtesy Julian Mattocks
One black-and-white sketch in particular captivates my attention as I fascinatedly look through the drawings. Its focal point—a single tree in full b... Read More...
Wandering the B-500 through the country’s highest foothills.
By Don Heimburger
Photographs Courtesy Don Heimburger
It’s actually a bit hard to pronounce this rather lengthy 22-letter word with my limited... Read More...
Courtesy Hochschwarzwald Tourism
Few holiday regions are as diverse as the Black Forest which has attracted vacationers for well over a century. Stretching from Karlsruhe in the north, down to the Swiss bord... Read More...
“We have to remember the past so the bad things will not be repeated, but it is also a mistake to live in the past.” Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
By Robert A. Selig
A century ago, on 28 June 1919, the fif... Read More...
Slip back into the 19th century when many Germans migrated to the U.S.
By Don Heimburger
Photographs Courtesy Don Heimburger
There’s a place in Wisconsin where German history in America comes alive in a ... Read More...
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