Demonstrators have formed a human chain near a U.S. air base in western Germany to protest against lethal drone strikes.

He cheated death with two World War II plane crashes, interrogation by German intelligence officers, a bayonet wound, and near-starvation as a prisoner of war.

Towering 162m above the Rhine, castles don't come much more postcard-ready than the glorious Marksburg.

Glashuette produced more than 32,000 watches last year, with a total value of at least 500 million euros, according to analyst estimates.

The riverside town of Rudesheim, on the eastern banks of the Rhine, is one of Germany's biggest tourist drawcards.

The ceremony was to be at 10.30am. "None of that dawn service nonsense here," said Isabel.

Winston Aldworth reports from the maiden voyage of the Avalon Imagery II on the Rhine.

I found that rarest of things: A hat big enough to fit my massive skull.

Restoration project brings back art treasures - and the world's grandest wallpaper.

Winston Aldworth's third dispatch from his cruise down the Rhine on the Avalon Imagery II.

This week, Travel Editor and river cruising novice Winston Aldworth is sailing down the Rhine on the maiden voyage of Avalon Imagery II.

This week, Travel Editor and river cruising novice Winston Aldworth is sailing down the Rhine on the maiden voyage of Avalon Imagery II.

Germany's Chancellor was not only absent from the election rally for the party she leads - she wasn't invited.

A new exhibition tells the haunting stories of the foreign children torn from their families and savagely abused in order to turn them into 'perfect Aryans'.

Concerns have also surfaced that those unaccounted for could include Islamic extremists or criminals who posed as refugees.

Tourists packing cheap new camera drones for tours of Germany might want to leave them behind

Germany has begun confiscating money and jewellery from refugees to pay for the cost of their stay, in a practice the UN says contributes to xenophobia.

For 70 years, the reprinting of Adolf Hitler's autobiography was prohibited in Germany because of fears it could be used as right-wing propaganda

There is some truth to the popular ditty that says the dictator had "only got one ball".

With the copyright due to expire at the end of this month, the long-banned Nazi bible will soon be revived.

Ernest Rutherford started a chain reaction that has changed the world. It has powered millions, killed a few hundred thousand and provides the background for two of the year's best shows, writes +Plus screen critic Paul Casserly

Cat owners in Germany may soon have to keep their pets on a leash, under new government proposals.

On a freezing evening in Berlin, Ewan McDonald walks among the ghosts of those who paid the ultimate price for a new life.

Germany offered Turkey the prospect of faster progress on its hope of joining the European Union in exchange for badly needed help in stemming the flow of refugees to Europe.

Facing an unstaunchable flood of migrants and refugees, Germany yesterday said it was reaching breaking point and would enact emergency controls.

Germany reinstates border controls, saying it is stretched to the limit trying to cope with a record influx of refugees.

One thing you don't generally expect at a homoeopathy conference is for any of the "medicines" to be a dangerous psychedelic drug.

After being shouted at and manhandled in Hungary, a country that did not want them, thousands of refugees stared at the cheering crowd in Germany.

Angela Merkel has promised there will be "no tolerance" for violent anti-migrant protests that have gripped Germany in recent weeks.