Historical analogies are a tricky thing, apt to give one an unwarranted confidence in one's ability to foretell the future. I'm not the only commentator to have wondered, for example, whether Sen.

THE “Adenauer story" has a romance of its own. It is the story — incredible as it may sound to many who have seen the Chancellor in his suave moods in the Bundestag — of a hick-town boy who has made ...

It was the fiercest, longest, and almost certainly the last big battle the old man would ever fight. Its cost may be reckoned for years to come. But after seven weeks of haggling, browbeating, ...

The Green Hell received its nickname by swallowing tons of cars and drivers whole, but, thankfully, not all corners on the infamous German track try to lure you into hitting the guardrail at ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and ex-US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have honored one of the founding fathers of modern German democracy. Konrad Adenauer, who died 50 years ago, remains a ...

This detailed, lucid biography of Konrad Adenauer retraces his long career from mayor of Cologne in the 1920s to chancellor of the young Federal Republic. Williams describes a man who exhibited ...

The roots of modern German politics don’t lie in the sandy soil of Berlin but in a white house on a hill in Rhöndorf, a pretty village across the Rhine from Bonn. Every airy room in the 1930s villa is ...

Konrad Adenauer was born on 5 January 1876 in Cologne. His father, Konrad, was a civil servant in the middle grade of the civil service. His mother, Helene Scharfenberg, also hailed from a civil ...

Konrad Adenauer was born on January 5, 1876, in Cologne. His father was a clerical civil servant, and his mother, Helene Scharfenberg, had also been brought up in a civil servant's family. Together ...