Late night revellers may think nothing of relieving themselves in public and now some walls are fighting back against the disgusting habit.

Stick to the good stuff - and water - is a Berlin barman's advice, says Grant Bradley.

Grant Bradley revisits a long-held interest with a tour of Colditz, the German castle which housed POWs during World War II.

On a recent trip to Germany, Grant Bradley checked out one of the most advanced automotive factories in the world.

Pictures presumed to be the work of a young Adolf Hitler have been sold at auction in Nuremberg for NZD$642,000.

The mentally disabled adult son of a German billionaire was kidnapped and held for ransom for several hours this week, it emerged yesterday.

In Germany near Leipzig, 120 electric i-cars a day are rolling off BMW's production line to meet hot demand around the world. Video supplied by BMW.

A German restaurateur claims to have found a secret store of cognac and champagne that once belonged to Adolf Hitler.

Businesses as well as the Government are hoping for a spinoff from a high profile at the World Transport Forum in Germany.

Fruit flies aren't known for their stunning intelligence, but new research suggests they can keep track of time.

Transport Minister Simon Bridges takes over as head of the International Transport Forum as the organisation tackles ways to boost global trade and tourism at its annual gathering.

A 65-year-old German woman has given birth to quadruplets after undergoing an artificial insemination procedure in Ukraine.

A pair of horses which once stood outside Adolf Hitler's grandiose Reich Chancellery in Berlin has been recovered by police probing a Nazi black market art ring.

Andreas Lubitz, the pilot who is believed to have deliberately crashed his Germanwings plane into a mountain, may have rehearsed the descent on an earlier flight, says a preliminary French air accident report.

On 70th anniversary of the end of the Nazi regime, new colour footage shows what Germany looked like in the aftermath of World War II.

Today marks the 70th anniversary of Hitler’s death in that weird bunker deep beneath the ground in Berlin.

Seventy years ago we reported that German radio played Hitler out with Wagner's Twilight of the Gods.

German writer Gunter Grass passed away in Lubeck, near the farmhouse where he lived with his second wife, Ute. He was 87.

Five German aspiring models have been flown to New Zealand with the help of the Government's tourism department in a bit to boost visitor numbers.

German neo-Nazis are suspected of being behind threats to 'behead' a conservative politician for continuing to back a controversial refugee housing project.

Critics say German Chancellor Angela Merkel's unwillingness to spend is holding back the euro-area economy.

One year before he made the cut for Lufthansa's elite flying school, Andreas Lubitz worked at a Burger King behind a car wash, flipping Whoppers and frying fries and talking to co-workers about his dream.

The father of the Germanwings co-pilot who allegedly deliberately crashed his plane into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board, is said to be “completely shattered”.

Media reports tell of a disturbed young man in relationship crisis as friends say he was happy in job.

A judge has taken a German tourist's word that she will voluntarily pay thousands of dollars in compensation to a motorcyclist that she seriously injured in a head-on crash.

German retailing giant Aldi has brought a new supermarket experience to Australian shoppers.

Anti-austerity protesters seeking to spoil the inauguration of the ECB's new HQ in Frankfurt left a trail of destruction across the city.

Despite its dark past, this visitor-friendly city in former East Germany takes its history very seriously, as Mathew Dearnaley finds out.