Brunhilde Pomsel is one of the few surviving people who regularly interacted with the Nazi inner circle during the Second World War.

Chinese fans were irate after a stuff-up at the Rio Olympics left their gold medal winners celebrating under the wrong flag for two days.

A 90-year-old took an instruction on a piece of modern art at face value and started writing on it with a ballpoint pen.

A German doctor has reportedly been shot at a clinic in Berlin.

Donald Trump says France and Germany have "totally" been compromised by terrorism and their citizens should receive "extreme vetting" before entering the US.

A man carrying a backpack just before a bomb detonated close to a music festival in Germany reportedly tried to enter the festival.

Police say a Syrian asylum-seeker killed a woman with a machete and wounded two others outside a bus station in the German city of Reutlingen before being arrested.

Germany has some of the world's strictest gun laws. But that did not stop Munich attacker - Ali David Sonboly - from carrying out his shooting spree.

A German au pair is keeping two Kiwi toddlers connected to their father's culture, teaching them the same language as their family overseas.

Distressing content warning: Gunman who shot 10 people dead engaged in a bizarre conversation with a witness before killing himself.

The German city of Munich is in lockdown following a shooting attack at a shopping centre during Friday evening rush hour. Here's what we know.

The German interior ministry have confirmed the suspect, a 17-year-old Afghan man, was shot by police.

Austria's government has moved to seize Hitler's birthplace by compulsory purchase amid warnings of its growing attraction for far Right "tourism".

Brit-bashing has become a universal past time this week, surprisingly however the Germans have focused on what's best about them

Money paid to owners of Volkswagen cars that fooled emissions tests is not a victory for clean air.

It is the largest consumer-auto payout and environmental-auto payout in US history.

Germany's Bild newspaper has played on friendly stereotypes in a last-ditch plea to Britons to stay in the European Union.

Demonstrators have formed a human chain near a U.S. air base in western Germany to protest against lethal drone strikes.

Glashuette produced more than 32,000 watches last year, with a total value of at least 500 million euros, according to analyst estimates.

The riverside town of Rudesheim, on the eastern banks of the Rhine, is one of Germany's biggest tourist drawcards.

The ceremony was to be at 10.30am. "None of that dawn service nonsense here," said Isabel.

Winston Aldworth reports from the maiden voyage of the Avalon Imagery II on the Rhine.

I found that rarest of things: A hat big enough to fit my massive skull.

Restoration project brings back art treasures - and the world's grandest wallpaper.

Check in as Winston Aldworth cruises the Rhine on the Avalon Imagery II.

Avalon Waterways New Zealand manager Troy Ackerman talks about what it is that attracts Kiwi travellers to river cruising

Winston Aldworth's third dispatch from his cruise down the Rhine on the Avalon Imagery II.

This week, Travel Editor and river cruising novice Winston Aldworth is sailing down the Rhine on the maiden voyage of Avalon Imagery II.

This week, Travel Editor and river cruising novice Winston Aldworth is sailing down the Rhine on the maiden voyage of Avalon Imagery II.

Germany's Chancellor was not only absent from the election rally for the party she leads - she wasn't invited.