Around the world, modern-day Christmas is associated with a feeling of coziness, getting together with the family and gift giving. The roots of these customs can arguably be traced back to Germany.

Is your over-zealous boss getting on your nerves? Are you tired of your partner correcting every small grammar mistake you make in German? If so, this funny idiom is for you.

The perfect word for this week’s Tag der Deutschen Einheit (Day of German Unity) holiday, die Wende is used to talk about a historic period of change.

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. From intimate stumbling stones to commemorative events in parliament, here’s how the atrocities of the Holocaust are remembered in Germany today.