Germany annexed it. It bounced back to France after World War I. All these centuries as a political shuttlecock have given Alsace a hybrid culture. And the city of Colmar is a great home base from ...

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In Gdansk, history is inescapable. The train terminal is a mirror of Colmar station in France's Alsace region, both designed by German architects when Imperial Germany governed these parts. The city's ...

The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025 ... place where you'll regularly find one of Thomas de Colmar's original Arithmometers. Some of the items ...

Not only was it the last major Nazi foothold on French soil, but control of Colmar also allowed freedom of movement into Germany itself. An American map showing the reduction of the Colmar Pocket ...

There had been individuals and networks of the Resistance since the beginning of the occupation, of course, growing as the ...

But it was a crucial hurdle and its passage was celebrated by the centrist lawmakers who hope it will allow Germany to shoulder a more powerful leadership role at a critical moment for Europe.

Volkswagen’s Audi luxury brand has announced it will cut thousands of jobs over the next few years, in the latest sign of trouble in Germany’s auto sector. The automaker said in a statement ...

It will also enable usually fiscally conservative Germany to create a €500 billion ($545 billion) fund for infrastructure. Robin Winkler, a senior economist at Deutsche Bank, called the debt ...

Polls show the CDU enjoying a comfortable lead, with 28% support. Merz voted Sunday in Arnsberg in western Germany, just minutes after his main rival, Scholz. But it's the rise of the far-right ...