During the Cold War, the Bundeswehr of the German Federal Republic (West Germany), which joined NATO in 1955, had primarily been responsible for defending against a possible attack by the Warsaw ...

As a hot war rages between Russia and Ukraine, there are fears that Europe has slipped into a new Cold War ... It’s the first federal law of its kind in Germany but yet to gain final approval ...

Ever since the Yalta Conference, it had been clear that Berlin was going to be a flash point in the Cold War, and this came to a head in 1948. Germany had been divided into four zones of ...