Concerns have also surfaced that those unaccounted for could include Islamic extremists or criminals who posed as refugees.

Tourists packing cheap new camera drones for tours of Germany might want to leave them behind

Germany has begun confiscating money and jewellery from refugees to pay for the cost of their stay, in a practice the UN says contributes to xenophobia.

For 70 years, the reprinting of Adolf Hitler's autobiography was prohibited in Germany because of fears it could be used as right-wing propaganda

For German women, 2016 has got off to a shocking start.

Security was tight as revellers took to the streets to welcome the new year due to fear of terror threats.

There is some truth to the popular ditty that says the dictator had "only got one ball".

With the copyright due to expire at the end of this month, the long-banned Nazi bible will soon be revived.

On a freezing evening in Berlin, Ewan McDonald walks among the ghosts of those who paid the ultimate price for a new life.

Germany offered Turkey the prospect of faster progress on its hope of joining the European Union in exchange for badly needed help in stemming the flow of refugees to Europe.

Facing an unstaunchable flood of migrants and refugees, Germany yesterday said it was reaching breaking point and would enact emergency controls.

Germany reinstates border controls, saying it is stretched to the limit trying to cope with a record influx of refugees.

One thing you don't generally expect at a homoeopathy conference is for any of the "medicines" to be a dangerous psychedelic drug.

After being shouted at and manhandled in Hungary, a country that did not want them, thousands of refugees stared at the cheering crowd in Germany.

Angela Merkel has promised there will be "no tolerance" for violent anti-migrant protests that have gripped Germany in recent weeks.

A message in a bottle thrown into the sea 108 years ago by British scientists has washed up on a beach in Germany.

Grant Bradley revisits a long-held interest with a tour of Colditz, the German castle which housed POWs during World War II.

On a recent trip to Germany, Grant Bradley checked out one of the most advanced automotive factories in the world.

Pictures presumed to be the work of a young Adolf Hitler have been sold at auction in Nuremberg for NZD$642,000.

The mentally disabled adult son of a German billionaire was kidnapped and held for ransom for several hours this week, it emerged yesterday.

In Germany near Leipzig, 120 electric i-cars a day are rolling off BMW's production line to meet hot demand around the world. Video supplied by BMW.

A German restaurateur claims to have found a secret store of cognac and champagne that once belonged to Adolf Hitler.

Businesses as well as the Government are hoping for a spinoff from a high profile at the World Transport Forum in Germany.

Air freight - a barometer of global economic activity - has recovered and is growing at sustainable levels, a transport summit has heard.

A corporate travel specialist has a new strategy - encouraging some business people not to travel.

Fruit flies aren't known for their stunning intelligence, but new research suggests they can keep track of time.

Transport Minister Simon Bridges takes over as head of the International Transport Forum as the organisation tackles ways to boost global trade and tourism at its annual gathering.

A 65-year-old German woman has given birth to quadruplets after undergoing an artificial insemination procedure in Ukraine.