This is the fifth in a series on The Athletic looking back at the winners of each men’s World Cup. The previous four articles have looked at Uruguay in 1930, Italy in 1934 and Italy again in 1938, ...

Though less celebrated than the economic miracle, or Wirtschaftswunder, another happy postwar transformation has overtaken West Germany. It might be called the Fräuleinwunder. In place of the ...

Since the days when Hitler opted for guns rather than butter, West Germany has known near-starvation, austerity and, for the past decade, such heady abundance that today it has become the Adipose ...

It Was Going to Fail: The MBT-70 was a joint tank project initiated in 1963 by the United States and West Germany to develop a next-generation main battle tank. Aimed... When viewers of the ...

Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt died on Tuesday aged 96 and leaders from around Europe praised him as an architect of international cooperation and post-war European integration. Schmidt ...

The Euro 1972 Final between West Germany and the Soviet Union: Gerd Muller (left) scores to make it 1-0Profimedia The 17th European Football Championship kicks off in Germany on June 14th. Every day ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the Berlin Wall had cut off Communist-ruled East Germany from democratic West Germany and most of the rest of Europe. That changed when the wall was opened Nov. 9, 1989 — ...