In one, he said, the snout looked like a dog’s muzzle. Another was built like a frog. “It has to be recognizable as Knut,” Mr. Ziolko added. “I’m no zoologist,” he said, pointing at one statue design, “but that looks more like a brown bear.” One of the...

Germany ’s kingmakers. The Free Democratic Party stood for civil liberties, limiting state interference and fostering the market economy — a tradition they will try to defend Friday when the party holds its annual New Year’s get-together. Some of...

There are a number of factors that suggest Korea can choose a gradual approach without risking mass migration from the North. To begin with, there has been much less contact between the two Koreas than between the two Germanys. In the wake of Willy...

...discoverer of the electron, in 1856; British short story writer Saki (H.H. Munro) in 1870; Swiss modernist painter Paul Klee in 1879; baseball Hall of Fame member Tyrus "Ty" Cobb in 1886; film director George Stevens ("Shane," "A Place in the Sun," "Giant")...

It dates to the 1970s, when it was called the "New International Economic Order." The premise of the New International Economic Order, as explained at the time by West Germany's Willy Brandt, was that there needed to be "a large-scale transfer of...

"The Holocaust fills us with shame," she said. "I bow my head before the survivors and I bow my head before you in tribute to the fact that you were able to survive." In 1970, the famous photograph of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt kneeling at the...