German painting’s arch-traditionalist has a brush with controversy.

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.

A German officer is facing trial on terrorism charges. At a volatile time for Western democracy, his story mirrors the story of Germany itself.

An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.

An electrician’s odd plot to make $607,933.50.

How Germany sorts people fleeing death from opportunists and pretenders.

How one of the world’s top conductors became ensnared in a WWI-era scandal.

A profile of the goat-herding nationalist intellectual who is leading a movement.

Life as a Syrian refugee in Germany.

Steidl, who is sixty-six, is known for fanatical attention to detail, for superlative craftsmanship, and for embracing the best that technology has to offer. "He is so much better than anyone,” William Eggleston, the American color photographer, told me, when I met him recently in New York. Steidl has published Eggleston for a decade; two years ago, he produced an expanded, ten-volume, boxed edition of “The Democratic Forest,” the artist’s monumental 1989 work. Eggleston passed his hand through the air, in a stroking gesture. “Feel the pages of the books,” he said. “The ink is in relief. It is that thick.”

In the fall of 2015, Germany designated Sumte, population 102, as a sanctuary for nearly 800 refugees. What followed was a living experiment in the country’s principles.

As a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree, did authorities look the other way?

The double life of a KGB spy living in 1980s Manhattan.

A 48-hour reconstruction of the Breitscheidplatz Attack and the political response.

How the refugee crisis has made a lot of people very, very rich.

In the beginning, they were known as die Dönermorde – the kebab murders. The victims had little in common, apart from immigrant backgrounds and the modest businesses they ran.

The effects of legalized prostitution in Germany.

More than 500 Germans, including a former rapper named Deso Dogg, have joined ISIS in Syria.

A profile of the most powerful woman in the world.

A utopian German settlement in Chile had already turned darkly cultish by the time it became a secret torture site for enemies of the Pinochet regime.

On the discovery of a billion dollars worth of artwork looted by Nazis in the cramped apartment of a Munich recluse.

Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

How a longtime gambling addict and a small band of his cronies manipulated both the game and betting exchanges from a tiny Berlin cafe, going as far as buying ownerships of teams in order to insure their failure.

A report from the trial of Ivan Demjanjuk—a.k.a. “The Last Nazi”—who died on March 17.