A bigamist, none of his tall tales about covering expeditions and wars in Alaska, Sudan, China, or South Africa were true As it turns out, Rathom’s stories about German plots in America are all based on intelligence passed to him by British agents. ..…

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin/bpk/Rotraut Forberg/Art Resource Dietrich Bonhoeffer with his twin sister Sabine in London, just after his return from America and before his final return to Germany, July 1939 . In January 1933, German conservatives, facing a political deadlock, engineered a way..…

And when the Wall finally crumbled and Germany was reunited, she broke barriers of her own, becoming the first East German — and the first woman — to become chancellor of Germany. . To America, Chancellor Merkel and the country she leads are among our closest allies. ..…

I was, however, an American Jew, not a German or a French Jew, and everything in America was different. ..…

A century ago, the German sociologist Werner Sombart famously asked: Why is there no socialism in America? ..…