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.

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 ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English ... 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.

Enter – or rather, re-enter – former chancellor Angela Merkel ... left coalition into government), Merkel withdrew almost entirely from public life – in part, as she explained, for the ...

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 ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader, the front-runner in Germany’s election next month, for putting to ...

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.