Germans born in the 1940s came of age in a shattered world. The Kriegskinder, or children of the war, inherited a country of ruins and silence. Cities were choked by rubble; millions of people were ...

Burkhard Bilger grew up in a family of German immigrants in Oklahoma in the 1960s and says his mother spoke of Nazism and World War II. And she might tell a sinister fairy tale in rough, woodcut ...

Because the text is both offensive and frightening to many foreigners, West Germans have been asked by the Bonn government not to use the first stanza of the German national anthem. It begins with a ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Burkhard Bilger about his new book "Fatherland" which explores his family's own Nazi past in Germany. Burkhard Bilger's book 'Fatherland' explores his family's Nazi ...