A statement mourning the death of Dr. Adenauer and emphasizing the role he played in the establishment and implementation of West Germany’s program for indemnification and restitution of victims of ...

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 ...

BERLIN — The first chancellor of West Germany used the state intelligence agency to spy on the leading opposition party just eight years after World War II, according to a new bombshell study. Konrad ...

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.

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- What is one to think about the curious fact that only one group of Americans bothered to commemorate the 125th birthday of Germany's greatest Christian statesman of the 20th ...

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion of Israel exchanged pledges of mutual cooperation today following a dramatic two-hour meeting which was obviously a ...

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, ...

For five years Konrad Adenauer had labored to put West Germany’s best face forward. The stern old schoolmaster kept the unruly boys in his Bundestag shiny, neat and well-behaved. But last week, with ...

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 ...