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.

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

A message in a bottle thrown into the sea 108 years ago by British scientists has washed up on a beach in Germany.

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.

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

Air freight - a barometer of global economic activity - has recovered and is growing at sustainable levels, a transport summit has heard.

A corporate travel specialist has a new strategy - encouraging some business people not to travel.

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.