Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry ... has been underestimated her entire life, starting with her upbringing in East Germany. She went on to earn ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer ... and social crisis. The early section of Freedom, about the first half of Merkel’s life in the GDR, offers a few clues as to her nascent political orientation.

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop here outside the Hotel Adlon, a storied building near the path of the wall that kept her locked in the East for the first 35 years of her life.

The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic nor a republic; it was an Orwellian horror show, where the Iron Curtain found literal expression in the form of ...

For the past five years Angela Merkel ... 35 years of her life living in the old communist East Germany, with a provincial accent to prove it. But behind the scenes, Merkel shone.